Vintage Electronics - NAB Fidelipac Carts
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Fidelipac (commonly known as an NAB cartridge or simply ‘cart’) was a magnetic tape cartridge format, used in radio broadcasting for playback of material such as radio commercials or jingles.
Wonderful video, thank you very much for bringing back all that stuff. I still work at the field (FM Jock) at 95,7 MHz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I have started in 1980 and just last month I've got myself a BE cart player machine that needs attention and will certainly be operating very soon. Also thanks for showing the great version of "Green Onions" - will buy ASAP \o/
Hello Jorge Rebello. Thank you for the view and comment. Yes, Rádio Sulamérica Paradiso 95.7 FM. Listening to it right now! Sound great!!!
My wife and I visited Rio de Janeiro back in the early nineties during Carnival. Had a wonderful time. Stayed at the Copacabana Palace for ten days. Costs a hell-of-a lot of money but we had a hell-of-a good time.
Enjoy that BE cart machine. Thanks again and best wishes.
Steve
"Fiddle-pack"...? LOL I like that!
Surprised you didn't mention the tone that triggers fast-forward; added by pressing a button after the recording ended.
Station I worked at used that feature all the time because they only had long carts left over...until I told them I knew how to repair them...
I gotta' be honest here... I didn't know about the fast-forward! Glad you mentioned it.
Thanks for the great video! The station where I started to work 31 years ago had Fidelipack cartridges. You really surprised me when you showed the cart loading machine! I heard of this device for years but never actually seen one. Do you have the manufacturer name and model for this contraption? I would love to see a more detailed video on this device. I still have some carts in my vintage broadcast setup here. I need to replace the tape on them.
Hello and thank you for your comments. Yeah, love the ol' carts! The Cart Winding machine was made by Broadcast Electronics (BE). The winder name was called Spotmaster - Model TP-1A. Every once n' awhile I'll see one for sale on eBay. I have two of them, each purchased on eBay. The last one I bought (about 3 years ago) was in wonderful condition and only sold for $50 plus tax & shipping. So, under a hundred bucks! Keep looking and sooner or later one will show up for sale. Also, don't forget that you need to use the "lube tape" when reloading carts. Regular reel to reel tape won't work. It needs to be tape made for carts. AudioTape Q17 or 3M Scotch #217 is what I use but I'm sure there are other lube tapes made by other brands. Although it's been awhile since I bought lube tape, I always found it on eBay.
You mean “Fi-del-i-pac”
Nope, I mean fiddle-pack. Sure, I understand the correct pronunciation but everyone I knew at the radio station called em' fiddle-pack. Does not bother me if someone wants to call them by their correct Fi-del-i-pac name or if they want to use 1960's broadcast slang and call them fiddle-pack. Some stations had their Les Nessman's and others had their Johnny Fever's. In the big scheme of things we all knew them as "carts."
Me personally, I like the fiddle-pack carts over the Scotch carts and I prefer AudioTape Q17 over 3M 217 but in the end it is all just cart lube tape.
You would think he'd pronounce the name correctly.
So... The 8-track was a spin-off of previous cart technology.
Yes indeed! Mad Man Muntz was trying to cut a deal with Ford to put 4 Track players in new Mustangs but Lear sold Ford on his new "8 Track" design. The 8 Track put Muntz out of business. So, the only out for Muntz was to set his warehouse on fire an collect the insurance. True story!
I thought it was pronounced FyDELipac
@@randyhenry2477 I think it is one of those words that gets pronounced differently by people. Sorta' like some people pronounce Langevin as lan-gev-en and some say it as lan-ga-vin. I don't know what the correct pronunciation is. Most of the folks I was around pronounced it fiddle-pack but every once in awhile I'd hear some say FyDELipac.
@@electronicsvintage - Like seeing the Crown 744 in the rack. I had a 701 (mono full track) and a 722 in the 70's and 80's. Great machines when you can't afford a Scully
Phil-dell-ah-pack. Certainly you are old enough to have heard the proper pronunciation.
Back in the 1960's & 70's that's how most people in the industry pronounced it... fiddle-pack. I'm sure there were a few "Charles Winchester types" who insisted on the correct pronunciation but for the rest of us common folk it was... fiddle-pak. But truth is, regardless of Phil-dell-ah-pack, Scotch (one or two), Audiopak, AristoCart, 3M or whatever, we mainly just called them "carts" and still do.