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Stephen Barncard
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LEFT RIGHT FULL SCALE -1db
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WARNING - THIS FILE IS LOUD. 4 X LR TOTAL TIME 1:20
SEALS AND CROFTS
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COTTONMOUTH (SQB ORIGINAL MIX REMASTERED) Cottonmouth · Seals and Crofts From the Album: Down Home Writer: Dash Crofts / Jimmy Seals Producer: John Simon Recorded and Mixed: Stephen Barncard
DEMONSTRATION OF THE mixstream.org DDP PLAYER
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The mixstream.org DDP player is imbedded inside a standard DDP folder that is used to ship CD content to a pressing plant. This folder is created in the last stages of CD mastering. The imbedded HOFA Player will allow the artist, producer and record company to audition and approve what will become the final version of a recorded work before being sent to a pressing plant. This is an 8 minute de...
wallyAndTheWho
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The legendary Wally Heider at Monterey pop in 1967. After Keith moons bomb went off inside his kick drum Wally felt it was his duty to take action to save his expensive condenser microphones on the drums. As far as I know this is Wally's only appearance on film or video anywhere. wallyheider.com
RECEPTION BAND 1
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BILL FOSTER HEADLINES BAND AT DAUGHTER LAEL'S WEDDING RECEPTION - PART 1
RECEPTION BAND 2
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BILL FOSTER HEADLINES BAND AT DAUGHTER LAEL'S WEDDING RECEPTION - PART 2
BILL FOSTER BAND LIVE 2002
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BILL FOSTER BAND - THE COMPLETE SET RECORDED AT THE UU CHURCH, LAGUNA BEACH, CA.
HUMMINGBIRDS
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Hummingbird activity here in my groovy back yard. They are getting their last bit of sucrose before the long flight south to Mexico.
Success Story: Ampex
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A 1950 era promotional film about the Ampex Corporation Originally a live remote broadcast from Redwood City CA. and sponsored by Richfield Oil. Views of various machines, incomplete history and some interviews. Performed live to air and Kinescoped to film
REDUCING THE SIZE OF PRO TOOLS SESSIONS FOR UPLOAD
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REDUCING THE SIZE OF PRO TOOLS SESSIONS FOR UPLOAD
PURPLE CARROT URBAN GARDENING EPISODE 1
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PURPLE CARROT URBAN GARDENING EPISODE 1
I think that is a SM56 that he is grabbing. I own 6 pairs of those from the rental company. with the Atlas stands and those weird shock mounts. They still sound great. I got them in a trade in the 1980s maybe 2 blocks from the Monterey fairgrounds.
Yes it was a SM56, a Wally mainstay microphone. Same element as an SM57 but with the convenient built in mic mount. Wally had hundreds of these in his studios and remote trucks because they sounded good and survived such events. However astute viewers of the entire Monterey Pop movie can observe that no more expensive condenser microphones were used on the overheads in sets after this moment.
Ampex is spoils of war from World War II
Thank you.
San Francisco was my birth hometown (1946 - 1970) in the Parkside District. When I was a little kid, the wonderful foghorns were my favorite nighttime lullaby. They made me feel safe.
Hi Steve! Just saying hello. First night I arrived in San Francisco. my wife and I were driving down California and the foghorns were blowing as the thick mist blew around us. Thanks for that. Sweet reminder!
Oppsss, my fathers name was Charles Garrett. Everyone there called him Charley. He worked I believe in the computer data division in Culver City
question? My father worked at the Culver City Ampex Corporation in the mid 60's to 1971 or 72. How can I get info or pictures of him if possible? Thank you
Have you been to San Francisco?
I lived in SF from 2004-2014. I could walk from my house to baker beach
Hahah its so funny to see the AMPEX machines using 3M tape. AMPEX tape was horrible
Well, Ampex machines had only had 3M in the beginning and Ampex never had a tape brand until they bought Shamrock around 1970. Shamrock was always inferior a tape. Ampex brand tape turned out to be much worse.
@@sbarncar actually, not true. BASF was making audio tape 10 years BEFORE 3m did. Scotch (3m Brand) made the famous 111 standard play tape in 1946 BASF was making audio tape since 1934
I could go on and on about Ampex instrumentation. Everything, was above the competition. FR3000 - data recorder, AR 1700 airborne recorder, ATR 100 Pro audio recorder.
Stephen, thanks for posting. My father worked for Ampex and I as well. Soooo much innovation. Nothing comes close! NOTHING!
I never understood the appeal of smashing musical instruments. Jerry Garcia had many of his guitars custom made and were works of technical art. He used to buy an extra airplane seat for his guitar so it didn't have to fly in the cargo hold (or so the legend goes). Speaking of legends, it's Wally Freakin Heider saving his equipment. LOL
What an absolutely weird and crazy time. 2023 blows
see 22.33 'It's Womens Work' He says, I doubt you could say that today in any workplace. Those were the days!
Very Cool!
Woooah!! I went from 4.8 gb to 800mb!! 🤩 Thank you!! That “compact” step made the whole difference
How interesting.....this 1950 documentary would have us believe that they invented the damn thing, rather than simply being the "spoils of war".
They brag as if they had invented taperecorders, well they didn't…
Get over it!
Love your sound Love Barncard submit to Westchester NY radio station 107.1 Jimmy Fink tell ‘em DooDah Dave sent ya!
I'm so glad that someone had the forethought to preserve this amazing piece of history on Kinescope!
The VR1000 must have been in development by the time of this recording. Amazing that magnetic recording would come and go in such a few decades.
I have been using Ampex recorders all my life since I was 23 years old, I am 76 now,
HOW CONVENIENT THAT THE FILM DOESN'T MENTION THAT THEIR AUDIO RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS WERE KNOCK-OFFS OF AEG (GERMAN) DESIGNS...
Man, you're training everyone
Guy's got a pretty cool narrator voice
yer great grandpa could barely work the cassette machine that Bob gave him. But he typed out a script and did it. Also he did 9 or 10 tape letters with more stories. I need to archive those pronto. I think I need to add captions, really.
amazing great
ruclips.net/user/shorts8EFHtGvP7AA?feature=share your fucked royally
This is very confusing
And now we have computers and the internet, spreading stupid at the speed of light. Causing reverse evolution, indoctrination, laziness and immorality. I'm 63 and I watched this country turn evil and stupid. Nobody knows what gender is, nobody knows what music is, nobody knows where we came from, how we got here or where we're going but I guarantee you it's nowhere good.
Mr. Barncard: Aren't you the same guy as this guy? -- David Crosby’s first solo album also boasted the specialized technical skill of Stephen Barncard. If so, you were the luckiest SOB on Earth to be able to record the song "Laughing"!!! That has been my absolute favorite song since it was first released in 1971. I have literally gone through at least 8 vinyl LPs by playing that song so many times!!! THANK GOODNESS FOR CDs!!! Now I just hope that I don't burn-out the laser in my CD player!!! You did a perfect job with recording that song with all of those incredible musicians!!! I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to "Laughing" on a pair of JBL 4320's, which I had always imagined were used during that recording session.....until I read that they weren't. But, the sound of "Laughing" through the JBL 4320's is impeccable nonetheless. I wish that I could have been there. Are there any insights or special recording secrets about that particular session that you could share? How were things mic'd up? How were the sessions run? How did you choose the various microphones for all of the different vocals? Did you use an EMT plate for Garcia's pedal steel? I would - LOVE - to read an entire detailed article about how that album was recorded and produced. JBW /
Thanks for your comment. The secret is simplicity. And no artist "experts". They left the tech decisions to me. Now today sessions are more about pleasing the artist rather than the audience. I'll be doing some tech video soon about the sessions soon.
@@sbarncar WOW!!! THANKS for your reply!!! I feel so honored to receive a reply from someone of your stature!!! THANKS!!! During the 1970s, after I got out of the Army, a friend of mine and I started a "garage" audio business where we not only were dealers for Pro-Audio equipment (AKG, Cerwin-Vega, JBL, TAPCO, Sennheiser, BOSE Professional Products, etc.), but we also designed and built touring PA systems for local and regional rock bands (REO Speedwagon being our biggest gig) and nightclubs in the Indianapolis area (one of which was voted as "The 4th Most Popular Nightclub In The World")!!! As a result of all of this combined audio design work, my life shifted from purely "audio" work to more along the lines of "design engineering" work. (This rambling actually leads to something.....) -- In 1979, my sister decided to move out to L.A. to be with her then-boyfriend due to the fact that she was tired of -- literally -- "freezing" living in Minnesota for a job she took that she ended up not liking. She asked me to help her with the driving out to California and I agreed. In addition I thought, "HEY!!! LA!!! The "Land Of Audio Companies"!!!, so I took with me a bunch of drawings of mechanical and PCB designs that I had created for various reasons.....just in case. As it just so happened by pure coincidence.....the AES Convention was taking place during the week that my sister and I had showed up and somehow from somewhere I had managed to finagle an "Exhibition Pass" that at least got me in the doors!!! Once I was inside, within my brain I was in "7th Heaven", walking around amongst all of those Pro-Audio equipment companies. What a "Dream-Come-True" for me. WOW!!! I met with officials from UREI and I even met and personally spoke with Mr. Paul Buff of ALLISON Research. GET THIS!!! Paul Buff had even agreed to sell me 2 bare circuit boards of the original "Gain-Brain" for $25!!! I gave him my money there at the AES and he was to mail me the PCBs once he got back to his office after the show. Now.....> THIS < was a -- BIG DEAL -- for me because it was the first time that I had the opportunity to "Reverse-Engineer" a PCB so I could replicate it on my own for my own purposes. Once I was able to get back to Indiana, I replicated the "Gain-Brain" circuit board and I packaged it into a 1U rack-chassis, so I could have my own "Stereo Gain-Brain" unit!!! This was just the beginning of many other similar projects yet to come within my design life. (FINALLY!!!.....) -- I bounced around out there in California for a few months before finding myself in the heart of "Silicon Valley". I amazingly also happened to find this other audio guy that I had known back in Indianapolis years earlier!!! As it had just turned out, his room-mate decided to move-out, so he and I decided to share his apartment together there in Mountain View. From somewhere I had borrowed a typewriter and I pounded out a resume and mailed it out to companies out there after buying a Sunday-edition of The San Jose "Mercury News" or something similar. And.....(FINALLY!!! TA-DA!!!) -- one of the first companies to respond back to my resume mailing was The AMPEX Corporation in Redwood City, CA!!! They were looking for a "Printed Circuit Board Designer" and my background of performing this type of work back in Indiana met their criteria and so.....THEY HIRED ME!!! YAY!!! Now that I had a good job and an actual income, I was able to go out and buy my very first > NEW < car, so I could actually get myself to my new job. While I was there at AMPEX, I met the PCB Designer who had designed all of the circuit boards for the MM1100 24-Track recorder, which I thought was WAY COOL!!! He had told me that it took him nearly 15-months to go through the process to manually "hand-tape" each and every PCB. He showed me the MM1100 motherboard that he had designed and I was completely floored both by its complexity and its physical size, as all of the PCBs that I had designed up to that point were relatively simple and small. MAN!!! WHAT A MONSTER THAT MOTHERBOARD WAS!!! GEEZ!!! Now.....I have designed 10-Layer PCBs for NASA, tiny 1.25" square 8-Layer PCBs for "covert" Dept. of Homeland Security projects and >> ALL << of the mechanical and PCB designs for "The World's First AM & FM Digital Radio Broadcast Exciter" prototype chassis, which has now become the new "worldwide standard" in radio broadcasting!!! >> All from Mr. Paul Buff selling me a pair of bare "Gain-Brain" circuit boards so I could teach myself how to "Reverse-Engineer" them!!! << WHO KNEW??? Anyway.....that's my life in a nutshell.
I still have one of those 600s that the "girls" are soldering together @26.00
This must have been from early 1956. Not a peep about what they had been working on for years, and would truly stun the broadcast engineering world when unveiled on April 11th of that year. The VR-1000 video tape recorder, a true defining moment in the history of communications.
I became obsessed with reel to reel tape decks when I was about eleven or twelve. Ampex was like the "Cadillac" of tape machines. I had to settle for a Wollensak 1/4 track stereo unit but it was an over-achiever I could live with. Ampex was the best!
Isn't it amazing how well spoken and intelligent people were back then. They never had stupid facebook and similar garbage and texting to speak to each other. They were well versed and spoke eloquently and with a high degree of dignity. We have trashed the English language so much it's not even remotely funny anymore and have become a classless bunch. Humanity is really going to shit. I love the historical value of these videos and appreciate the efforts mankind have made to make our lives easier. I noticed those poor ladies on the production line sucking back all those solder fumes while soldering. I hope they never got cancer as a result. I guess we never had a focus on safety as we do today otherwise they would've had extraction fans to remove those cancerous, toxic fumes.
The long story he didn't want to get into was, that the Reel to Reel tape machine was taken from AEG in Nazi Germany at WW2's conclusion and taken back to the USA (spoils of War) AEG had invented the Magnetophon in 1935 and was used to record Hitlers Speeches, so they could be played out in HiFi from German radio stations. Ampex copied the technology.
4:06 I long to return to the days when clever people pointed with sticks 😊
23:45 - I have that microscope, or another identical to it from that lab, today in my private collection of recording history artifacts as well as the sign that hung above the Ampex magnetic recording head lab. It is signed on the back side by all the members of the lab on the last day of their operation. 25:06 - I also had the greatest honor of my life, running camera #2 at the PBS station in Reno Nevada, while Charley Anderson was the operator on camera #1 for an episode of Book Beat. Earlier in the day, Charley and I repaired (ironically) a Sony video tape recorder together. I managed to meet all the members of the original Ampex video tape recorder engineering team with the exception of Charles Ginsburg. I became friends with all of them. Of all of these great men, only Fred Pfost remains. What a great honor it was for me to stand among giants who are barely known today. I also toured the Ampex museum on the last evening it was open to the public when they hosted the memorial service for Charles Ginsburg. Here is a photo of me with Charley Anderson and Fred Pfost taken in 2006. www.labguysworld.com/Labguy01.jpg I keep the Magnetic Head Lab sign in my living room to remind me of to whom I owe my valuable career as a video engineer. I got into the field because of my absolute obsession with video tape recorders. Thank you Alexander M. Poniatoff, Charles Ginsburg and all the magnificent employees of this great American institution. Thank you.
I believe bing Crosby invested his money into ampex, it made him a wealthy man
That's correct 👌
I think he was at least well off before he got into Ampex. Besides all the movies he made, wasn't he a partner in Decca Records?
Don't forget He grew a lot of "Minute Made" oranges and invested even more money in Video Tape in 1953 which eventually replaced Kinescope in the late 50's.In 1938 there are some good examples of German made Magnetic tape that still exists today. eg. "The cremation of Sam Magee" read by Robert Service.
a quarter of a million dollars.....
Guess what? Those components were American made, made by American hands and the technology changed the world.
Magnetic audio tape recordings came out of Germany.
Yep. "the spoils of war" after Germany's unconditional surrender. We hauled the Magnetophones home to the USA and reverse engineered them.
Ampex is Telefunken!, Thay (ampex) have Stolen the technic from Telefunken! The best Recorder builder in History!, Without les paul, ampex would not be that who thay are/was!!! The Idea from synch and multitrack came from les Paul! And the knowleg and technic for Tape Recorders came from Telefunken in Germany! ... Love ampex!!!, but thats the truth! The real First Multirecorder was Telefunken M10 4 Track!
FROM TELEFUNKEN? STOLEN? HOW MANY PATENTS, MANUFACTURING METHODS, FACILITIES, ETC WERE STOLEN DURING THE THIRD REICH? READ YOUR HISTORY, HELMUT. IN GERMANY, A.C. BIAS WAS STUMBLED UPON BY VERY OBSERVANT TECHNICIANS IN THE ENGINEERING DEPT OF THE RRG. A FEW YEARS BEFORE THAT MARVIN CAMRAS WAS GRANTED HIS PATENT IN THE US IN 1941. IN 1927 (NOT A TYPO) ONE WAS ISSUED TO CARLSEN & CARPENTER IN 1927 (NOT A TYPO). MULTI - TRACK WAS, WITH, THE PARTICIPATION OF BELL BABS - WESTERN IN AN OPTICAL FILM 35MM MEDIUM FOR THE FILM FANTASIA.
No, you are incorrect.The movie business invented multi-tracking back in the 30s, before Les Paul. And the technology was improved by Mullin and Ampex. I don't know the patent story, but please do remember that the Germans were NAZIS and probably had as much patent protection as the current Russians. Perhaps it was the 'spoils of war' but you are not telling the whole story. Rangertone, Presto, Scully, etc.
@@sbarncar Re the movie business inventing multi-track audio, you do mean optical, not magnetic recording, right?
@@moldyoldie7888 BOTH
Les Paul did not invent sel-sync. He was an Ampex custom product customer who requested the feature. It was an Ampex employee that came up with the tech and presented it to Les Paul. It was more than just simple switching, and required extra coils and other components. All the movie guys had to do was add another sound on film or magnetic recorder to the other recorders. They were already using synchronized multi “track” and editing equipment in the 30s.
thanks Stephen! It helped a lot. Have like 30 sessions here. I share later how much space I could save with these procedures.
They had tape machines in 1950 that could record 28 separate tracks and never thought to make progressive rock.
PERHAPS IT WAS FOR DATA APPLICATIONS
LMAO ok this the best comment. For real lol there should've been some jazz cats smokin reefer and plottin to throw down some shit on 28 tracks.
Les Paul and the Beatles created the first Multi-track recordings!
@@artshifrin3053 Some progressive rock sounds like data.
@@jaminova_1969 The film industry was recording multi track long before the Beatles.
I loved visiting SF and just the sights and sounds and the fog rolling in the afternoon like a big blanket covering the city.
Only me from GTA San Andreas???
I grew up in the Portola district of San Francisco. At night, when I was in bed waiting to fall asleep, I would listen to the foghorns. I have long since lived in San Francisco, but when ever I hear the horns, it makes me feel relaxed, like I'm at home again. Thank you for the nostalgia. Today, I serve in the coast guard auxiliary as a Aids to Navigation verifier, I get to inspect foghorns now.
Very cool, Thank you for what you do. 👍
This was SO useful. Thank you very much. I only watched until 4:27 and just saving the session with using the main playlist only and session plug-in folder downsized my 1.16gb into 400mb. You're the man!
Ampex is the KEY to the classic recording sound. I run 4 ampex machines everyday. A 1953 Model 350-2, 1961 351, 1956 350 and a 1957 Ampex 351-3. These are without a doubt the most magical tape machines ever made. More true beautiful sound than any other. I fully restore mine to be brand new again and they work so well.
No, the key for Classic Tape recording came from Telefunken!!! That ampex have Stolen, and the synch with multitrack came from les Paul!!!! Telefunken and studer have a bit better Sound, and that say i as ampex Recorder Fan!!! In my list IS Telefunken in 1th place than studer and ampex in 2th place!!! Love all 3! My dream Maschine is the Telefunken M10 4track 1" Tube Tape Recorder!!! Than studer j37 (4track) and ampex 300/350/351 3 and 4 Track Recorder ;)
Btw. first multitrack recorder in London in world bigest Studio (Abbey Road) was the Telefunken M10 4 Track (end 50s to mid 60s), than thay buy studer J37 4 Track maschines (becouse thay was Lidl and Not so big Like Telefunken) in Sound and Tape Transport, Telefunken M10 1, 2 and 4 Track was the best at thay time!!! But as i sayed, Love all 3 Brands!
Ditto! I had my 1st experience with an Ampex 351 ful track; it sounded excellent! What an awesome machine, I think they referred to it as the "washtub." Of course, Studer and Telefunken were on par as well. Wished I could've worked with those machines as well.
@@Creatormelodie you obviously dont know your history very well. Putnam was multitracking before as well as overdubbing etc.. and no thanks the classic American sound IS ampex. Literally every damn record made in america which was all the shit every other country was copying was Ampex. King, Sun, Columbia, RCA, Vee Jay, Cobra, Fire, Modern, the list goes on and on. Ampex, Ampex... period. You can have all them beatles records and shit it doesnt compare to American music done on Ampex. Period. And who needs multitracking.... mix it all live yourself. Putnam did everything from Ray Charles to Muddy Waters to Sinatra all mono live.
@@bob4analog The german stuff was great but the classic American sound is Ampex no arguments even possible. Ampex had the magic tone, the 350 and 300 models are my favorite. The washtub models were named on the Ampex 300 or the 3 track models which had the big silver metal housings. The 351 usually came in a wooden rack orportable cases
Fascinating. I knew Charlie Anderson, Bob Day and Alex Poniatoff, all of whom were still there in 1973 when I started my 27 year career with Ampex. Too bad the greatness of Ampex was lost to bad management...
Jill Clardy really what happened ?
Jill, what division did you work in? My father worked in engineering in Redwood City from '59 to '84. By chance, did you know Mal Boyd, Tim Collins, Hank Alvord, Jerry Kazakis or Frank Banks?
@@raymondbanks4103 AVSD. I don’t recall any of those names.
@@JillClardy sorry to belabor this but what department did you work in?
@@raymondbanks4103 I was a Product Manager, then Manager of Customer service, then IT manager…among other positions
Now that's some salmon run!
Jack Mullin discovered the German machines while in the signal corps and made many improvements in the original Magnetophon and set it up for American broadcast. The Ampex machines after 1948 were vastly superior to the german ones. Nothing was "stolen" - that's fake news, children. The original patents were honored. read the real story - tape recorders were a culmination of many inventions, inventors and breakthroughs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_recorder
Germany surrendered unconditionally, so we weren't stealing. The whole country and everything in it belonged to us.
Reading through the Wikipedia article not one mention of ac bias, the most significant development of all. Not worth the "paper" it's written on then surely?
@@factorylad5071 well this is your opportunity to update the Wiki yourself. It's crowd-sourced..