WHAT IS STICKY SHED SYNDROME, ANYHOW? Sticky Shed Syndrome (SSS) took the magnetic recording industry by surprise when first encountered in the early 1980s. It was never an issue until tapes were being brought out of storage and refused to play reliably without breaking. SSS in many cases ... Read More »
A Major “Recap” on a Magnificent Machine
WHAT IS A "RECAP," ANYHOW? In this blog post we outline in detail a "recap" operation performed on an otherwise perfectly operational quadraphonic reel-to-reel tape deck. WHAT'S A RECAP ALL ABOUT? The very nature of our business at W. Cardone Productions is with legacy media equipment that has ... Read More »
My Video Cable is Too Long!!!
INTRODUCTION: We at W. Cardone Productions often face challenges in duplicating legacy video and film into the digital domain. In fact, this distinguishes us within the industry because we look for avenues to leverage modern technology to optimize the process. What we produce is therefore actually ... Read More »
Periodic Audio Glitch Solved with APC Power Filter
At W. Cardone Productions our business is to work with legacy audio/visual equipment. By definition, that means equipment that was manufactured for a different age. As a consequence, on rare occasions we run into glitches as in the present case. We recently acquired a project from a local radio ... Read More »
Commercial Audio Duplication to Digital Project
At W. Cardone Productions our typical audio duplication to digital project comes to us from consumers. It might be a set of three or four audio cassettes of varied family events from yesteryear. Each cassette must be captured in real time. Let's assume that each is a 90 minute cassette. The capture ... Read More »
Design Your Own titles
W. Cardone Productions introduces something revolutionary in the legacy duplication to digital industry—truly custom titles. The concept is simple. We supply the client with a Microsoft PowerPoint template file having slides that are the precise size needed for placement on a 1080p sequence ... Read More »
