Hi Shai: Here is a description of the system with a link to the user manual: http://mixonline.com/TECnology-Hall-of-Fame/1978-EM-Mastering/ -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shai Drori" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early digital recording history -- RCA's first (according to Billboard) > Any info on tape speed and recording time per reel? Just my quirky brain? > Shai > בתאריך 09/11/12 7:01 PM, ציטוט Tom Fine: >> Ye olde Billboard via Google Books yields another tidbit ... >> >> Levine/CSO - Mahler #7 was RCA's first digital recording. Medinah Temple, July 1980. The >> Soundstream system was used, and according to Billboard interviews with both producer Thomas Z. >> Shepard and Soundstream head Thomas Stockham, it was a more elaborate setup than previous >> Soundstream projects. Stockham said that his tape machine (a Honeywell instrumentation recorder) >> was capable of up to 8 tracks, although the typical Soundstream setup was 4 tracks and usually >> (in the case of Telarc at least), it was duplicate stereo sends. For the Levine/CSO recording, >> Soundstream was sent 8 channels from RCA's recording setup. So two Soundstream electronics units >> were sync'd together and the 8 separate digital signals were fed to the tape recorder. One can >> imagine how slow the editing was with 8 tracks loaded into the DEC computer. This was all >> probably pushing the capabilities of the Soundstream system. According to several different >> interwebs sources, the record wasn't released until 1982. I wonder if there had to be some R&D at >> Soundstream to get the project edited and mastered? >> >> -- Tom Fine >> > > -- > בברכה, > שי דרורי > מומחה לשימור והמרה של אודיו וידאו וסרטים 8-35 ממ. >