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Author Topic: What kind of degausser are you using? William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-11-2004 03:15 AM                        After many years, my wand-type degausser has croaked & I must get another. Those of you who get mag prints: What make of degausser are you using?  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-11-2004 04:42 AM                     I'm afraid that many people who run mag have never degaussed... I've talked to several people and that is what they told me. btw, check ebay for those. Tons of tape-deck/vcr demag wands for sale at less than $20. danny [ 08-12-2004, 04:32 AM: Message edited by: Dan Lyons ]  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-11-2004 10:10 AM                        quote: Dan Lyons I'm afraid that many people who run mag have never degaussed... I've talked to several people and that is what they told me. Think of all the noisy or even partially erased mag tracks out there.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-11-2004 01:28 PM                        Geneva Head Demagnetizer Model VCR 205 VR 205  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-11-2004 04:52 PM                        That Geneva is what I have in my toolbox. Highly recommended. Haven't had much need for it lately though. And for John, I sat through a 70mm screening of Sparticus a few years ago where the print sounded like it had been partially degaussed. Does anyone still maintain the ability to resound 70mm release prints these days?  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-12-2004 02:17 AM                        Thanks guys!  |  IP: Logged Erick Akers Arse Kicker Posts: 201 From: Dallas, TX, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 08-12-2004 02:56 AM                     Paul, Yes films are being resounded in CA. For more information Check with Paul Rayton at the Historic Egyptian Theater. I loaned Paul a few 70mm short subject films a while back, and we had a recent phone conversation in which he told me that a feature was resounded with a freshly restored soundtrack encoded with Dolby SR.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-12-2004 09:06 AM                        That's the nice thing about mag, if you have a fairly pristine print that doesn't need to much conforming work done, it can be easily re-recorded. I saw this done once at the Sound Factory to a 35mm 4trk mag print of NASHVILLE. They had to put in a few black slugs in to conform it, they rerecorded it, sweetening the sound a bit, totally eliminating the 12k trigger on the surround track and doing some other tweaking, and then when all was said and done, the slugs were removed. The result was that a print which was almost junk-able to start (or which would only be useful as a optical mono) was returned to a full-fledged stereo print with relatively little work. It may also have been Technicolor which is why it was so important to make it viable again, I am not sure.  |  IP: Logged

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