[Studiotalk] Zing

Wed Sep 18 10:31:17 CDT 2019

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to mention that here in Colorado, we have a Telex 6120 that we’d be happy to gift if anyone’s interested.  We finished up the digitization of our reels earlier this year and no longer have any use for it.

For what it’s worth, we had been using it with the Zing software (we had an off-network machine we were able to keep running XP).   It does output to 4 RCA cables, so it might be possible to use it with a digital interface other than the Zing system.

If anyone is interested or has any questions, feel free to reach out. I’d be glad to see it put to use rather than sit here collecting dust!

Tyler

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From: studiotalk [mailto:studiotalk-bounces at islemail.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 7:15 AM
To: TBBS Recording Studio Info <studiotalk at islemail.org>
Subject: Re: [Studiotalk] Zing

Good morning Christopher and all.

In the mid-2000s we had our existing 2 such Infonics reel to reel units (previously used for dumping 4 tracks from two 2-track reel masters simultaneously to 4-track cassette submaster) converted for use in digitization. We also purchased a single unit designed to work with 4-track reel masters as our decades old reel master collection had a mix of both 2-track and 4-track reel masters.

Several years ago we lost touch with Dave at Infonics and were unable to locate him for needed maintenance of these machines.

So we began refurbishing the couple of remaining old Otari reel-to-reel units I had kept from back when we were recording and reviewing analog. We had surplused most of our then 6 Otari reel units as we shifted to recording digitally. So we had the 2  or so remaining Otaris maintenance and also purchased 1 “new” and 1 refurbished Otari.

It is these 4 Otari units that we now use for the bulk of our analog to digital conversions / digitizations.

The Infonics units worked well for us for a very long time but when we finally realized we wouldn’t be able to have their creator, Dave, work on them, we decided to surplus them and rely upon the Otaris.

- SMiles Lewis
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Texas State Library & Archives Commission
Talking Book Program
Audio Production Administrator / Studio Director
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From: studiotalk <studiotalk-bounces at islemail.org<mailto:studiotalk-bounces at islemail.org>> On Behalf Of Duran, Christopher at CSL
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:22 PM
To: TBBS Recording Studio Info <studiotalk at islemail.org<mailto:studiotalk at islemail.org>>
Subject: Re: [Studiotalk] Zing

So is everyone using these infonics machines to do A-D transfers?
I cannot find a manual here in the studio and this machine is a bit confusing.

Thanks all!

~Christopher

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