We have a stereo playback ITC Delta cart machine that I am using to archive old music carts to digital. It has the "Cue" function, and when it sees a secondary tone, it speeds ahead to cue the cart up. Unfortunately, at the station we used these carts, we used sec tones as "warning lights" for the jocks that the song was about to end. So as I listen back to the songs, about 30 seconds or so before the end the cart gets thrown into "cue" mode. Does anyone know how to disable the secondary tone detect only, without affecting the cue?
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ITC Delta Cart machine tone detect
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As I recall, there is a dip switch on the Cue board which enables/disables the function.
I found the information. Cut W102 on the Cue board to disable EOM entirely.
Wow, that's different using the SEC tones for a warning light. SOP for everywhere I worked was the SEC tone a) fired off the next machine and/or b) kicked the machine into fast forward if it was equipped to do so. The TER tones were used as a warning.
Obviously the ITC triple decks couldn't fast forward, thats usually where an older deck was placed in the studio as a "cue machine".
Obviously the ITC triple decks couldn't fast forward, thats usually where an older deck was placed in the studio as a "cue machine".
Agreed, TER was warning and SEC usually closed board channel/tripped next deck or event in sequence/high speed cue engage. Some decks I have seen include a record/play time counter that would stop elapsing upon SEC tone detection. A few record decks would also disengage record mode when the SEC tone button was pressed.
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Many Engineers (including me) used the Sec tone as a warning and the Ter tone to turn the console module off and put the deck into FF.
I did this because many of the ITC decks 'leaked' the 8kHz Tertiary tone into the audio outputs.
Back in the late 70s through the 90s, just about every station in the Tampa Bay market did the same ... and for the same reason.
I did this because many of the ITC decks 'leaked' the 8kHz Tertiary tone into the audio outputs.
Back in the late 70s through the 90s, just about every station in the Tampa Bay market did the same ... and for the same reason.
Thank you for all the responses, they've been very helpful. I remember when we went to the blue carts, for some reason they switched to TER tones instead for warning lights. Many of those carts I can play full length without a problem.
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