Guitarhacker
true or not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMCDwWZXd2w
funny for sure....
(I'll catch the snips later -- I'm at work)
35 years ago, I bought a cassette deck made by UHER ... you know why? ... because Nakamichi (spelling) and UHER, were the 2 units used in the field for film ... and their quality was excellent and then some.
The UHER deck, did hundreds and hundreds of hours of recording of the old Space Pirate Radio show in Santa Barbara, of which I still have over 400 hours (now MP3'd) and those 120 min cassette tapes lasted 35 years ... before I transferred everything into digital. Maxell and Basf were the only tapes that surviced. Any other brand died sometime before that.
It is the one part of film, that requires extreme sensitivity for detail and one of the best folks to work sound? ... Coppola. And the next time you see "Apocalypse Now", do it on HD or Blue Ray ... and you will be able to get an idea of what you could hear 35 years ago ... with those machines. They were designed for long range recording, if I am not mistaken.
Nowadays, the sound side of things is not as bad or as strong and realistic as it was then, since you no longer have to deal with equipment that is not strong enough to do this. With the wireless technology, the majority of these things are no longer required.
Side story ... these are also used in war and love technology, and some microphones are launched from rockets ... and are capable of landing, and then turning on later ... and they can be trained to any direction one would want!
Technology man ... technology!
post edited by Moshkiae - 2013/01/09 11:06:38