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Super8 Sound Studio

The Lab Recorder is a modified Crown PRO-700 three-motor

tape deck. The record-reproduce electronics are available in

monophonic and stereophonic versions. The Super 8 fullcoat

head assembly is manufactured by Crown to Super8 Sound

specifications. Each Lab Recorder is supplied by Crown

biased and equalized for recording on Super 8 fullcoat mag-

netic film, with calibrated frequency response test charts.

The Super8 Sound Laboratory Recorder consists of three

components — the fullcoat transport, record/reproduce

electronics, and sync electronics. A portable case is available

but the three components are designed for rack-mounting

in standard 19-inch racks.

With its one hour running time, the Lab Recorder can do

transfers to the longest available Super8 film loads — 1200

feet. This length facilitates double-system sync transfers from

Super 8 to video with no need for intermediate stops on even

the longest video cassette.

Technical Specifications at 24fps

(Preliminary)

Frequency Response: Overall Record/Playback: 20-1 7,000Hz

—3dB, 20-15,000Hz +1 —2dB: Amplification: 10Hz-50,000Hz

Signal/Noise Ratio: Record/Playback: 65dB

Wow and Flutter: Record/Playback: 0.18%

Speed: 4ips (24fps)

Track Location: Half track NAB standard monophonic or stereophonic

Recording Time: One hour on 10

/2" reel, 3.3 mil fullcoat

Rewind Time: Less than 60 seconds

Audio Inputs: Line Input (2 per channel): Impedance

100K

ohms

Sensitivity — 24dB

Mic Input (2 per channel): Impedance 350K ohms

Sensitivity — 64dB

(Front panel controls allow for mixing between two sources per

channel.)

Audio Outputs: Line Out: Impedance 600 ohms +4dBm

Controls: Four push buttons: REWIND, FORWARD, STOP, PLAY;

Reel size adjustment

Super8 Sound Laboratory Recorder

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S8SLR

S8S# S8SR (4), TC854, FEW3 and MX 14

Multiple Fullcoat Recorders

Since any number of Super8 Sound Recorders will run to-

gether in sync with the AC line frequency, any number of

tracks can be mixed, and recorded on a master track recorder

also running in sync. The Super8 Sound Recorders are

started simultaneously in sync by using an AC Common Start

Box or a PhotoStart/BeepStart device, which responds to a

beep tone, and releases each recorder at the same instant.

How to accomplish multiple track mixes with multiple

Super8 Sound Recorders is described in detail in Section

III.G of the Super8 Sound Recorder User's Manual.

With an AC synchronous projector or an AC synchronous

editing table these mixes can be done while watching the

picture in sync. If your projector only has 1/F sync capa-

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bility, you can still run up to six Super8 Sound Recorders

in sync with it by using special multiple recorder sync cables.

Post-synchronous sound, e.g. dubbing dialogue or replacing

nes which are unusable in the original recording, can be

accomplished with two Super8 Sound Recorders with or

without picture.

See the Super8 Sound Recorder section of the Super8 Sound

Catalog for technical details on the Super8 Sound Recorder.

Super8 Sound Recorder

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S8SR

PhotoStart/BeepStart

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PSTART

AC Common Start Box

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CSTART

Multiple Recorder Sync Cables

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for two recorders

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MRC2

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for three recorders

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MRCS

—for four recorders

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MRC4

—

for five recorders

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MRC5

—for six recorders

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MRC6

S8S# S8SR, TC854, FEW3 and MX14

Multiple Track Recorders

Multiple-track tape recorders, used in conjunction with the

Super8 Sound Recorder, allow voice-overs, narration, sound

effects, and music tracks to be added alongside original sync

dialogue or on-location sound effects tracks.

Mixes of up to three sync tracks are readily achieved on quad-

raphonic four-channel tape recorders (one channel carries

sync pilotone). Wild tracks may be fed in at the same time,

for example from wild recorders carrying loops of room tone,

wind effects, etc., using a multi-channel mixer.

The most desirable four-channel recorders have independent

recording channels and the capability to record straight

across from a prerecorded track, while listening to that pre-

viously recorded track in sync with the track being laid down

via the record head (and not through a separate monitor or

playback head some distance away, which would introduce

delay). Such machines are described as having "Syncro-

Trak" (SONY) or "Simul-Sync" (TEAC). In some cases, it is

possible to live with the delay, e.g., at 15ips it usually

amounts to only a couple of frames out of sync, at 7.5ips it

can be four or five frames.

The four-channel recorders listed below have straight-across

sync heads and four completely independent recording amp-

lifiers, unless otherwise indicated. They all have RCA phono

jack line inputs/outputs and are connected to the Super8

Sound Recorder with a single resolver and transfer cable

that carries sync signals to and from the Super8 Sound Re-

corder.

Transfer/Resolver Cable for RCA phono jack

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RCRCA