Can someone explain radar to me please...

[Alicatt]

I worked for Olympic Studios and Trident Audio (building/installing their mixing consoles) in the late 70s. Just installed a Gobius tank level detector today, cleaning wipes were Isopropyl Alcohol. A familiar smell from cleaning tape heads and getting Mick Jagger's spit out of a Neumann mic.

A bit of sibilance then? We used a Neumann mic when the artist was a bit more spray than say, normally we used Calrec mics.

Can't remember the make of the desk it was 16 to 8 to a 1" 8 track Studor deck with a final mix down to a stereo pair on a 1/4" Studor deck. Monitoring was with Quad amps and Tannoy speakers. Our biggest work was making cassettes with Cetek-Gauss endless loop master and 4 slaves running at 32:1 When I wasn't fiddling with the equipment I was on quality control listening to the mass produced cassette tape before it was wound into the cassettes.

I hate dislike intensely "Now That is What I Call Music Vol..." 120k cassettes per run, or "Jock Jumping" music (Scottish Dance Band) which was our own inhouse production, we usually had small runs of high quality cassettes for the big music companies which was what we specialised in, I left to take over in the family hotel after my father had a heart attack.