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Originally Posted by jstroop
Interesting factoid previously unknown to me ...
“Ampex's first great success was a line of reel-to-reel tape recorders developed from the German wartime Magnetophon system at the behest of Bing Crosby.” (From Wikipedia)
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After the war, Bing sent a team into Germany to "obtain" the German's technology because he wanted to be able to time-shift his shows with the best sounding recordings possible. The Germans had added to magnetic tape recording an AC bias signal that reduced distortion and smoothed low-frequency response. He then paid to have the technology replicated and developed into the modern recording technology we use via the company he was an officer of, Ampex Corp. In 1955, an engineer at Ampex named Ross Snyder came up with the idea of converting individual track heads on the record head to playback in order to allow overdubbing of multi-channel tracks without taking the previous recording down a generation. He called it "Sel-Sync." Les Paul took delivery of the first multitrack with Sel-Sync and developed the techniques for its use, and my job (recording engineer) was created.
I basically owe my job to three people.
Bob