BARCLAY-CROCKER KING KONG ORIG FILM SOUNDTRACK REEL TO REEL PRISTINE

$

30

SOLD WITH PRIDE FROM

AziGzaG MuSiC, since 2002

THIS SALE:

The Mighty Monarch of all Melodramas!!!

MAX STEINER'S 

"KING KONG"

BARCLAY-CROCKER'S SUPERB RENDITION!

7 1/2 IPS REEL TO REEL

FROM A VAST PRIVATE COLLECTION

SEE ALL PHOTOS! 

  

TAPE:

PLAY TESTED ~ SOUNDS AMAZING

 

BOX CONDITION:

 ULTRA MINOR STAINING

OTHERWISE MINT-MINUS CONDITION

ARCHIVAL COLLECTIBLE!

For the newcomers to Barclay-Crocker tapes, ramblin-jack wrote this

on "Ebay Guides" in 2003 but Guides were eliminated in April 2018:

NOTES ON THE UNIQUE BARCLAY-CROCKER COMPANY  

The fastidious BARCLAY-CROCKER Reel to Reel Tape Company of Poughkeepsie, New York was internationally famous for manufacturing Reel to Reel tapes with a "no-holds-barred" attitude to quality.  BARCLAY-CROCKER, (BC), carefully chose recordings for manufacturing only after critical evaluation of the MASTER TAPE supplied by the original licensing (record) company.  After passing stringent BC standards,  the record company master was painstakingly recorded 1-to-1 to a running master at 15 inches per second on 1/2 inch mastering tape and not subjected to any external limiting, compression or equalization.  These new BC running masters were used to produce the LIMITED EDITION ISSUES (some less than ONE HUNDRED!) at tape recording speeds unheard of for the REEL TO REEL TAPE INDUSTRY.  

Most commercially available Reel to Reel tapes in their day, were duplicated at very high speeds (60 -240 IPS) ranging from 8 to 32 times the tape's normal playing speed at 7 1/2 IPS or up to 64 times the speed of a 3 3/4 IPS tape!  The BROAD-BANDWIDTH required at these high speeds severly taxes the amplifiers and heads of the duplicating equipment and adversely affects both the FREQUENCY RESPONSE and NOISE LEVEL of the duplicated tapes.  BC's custom modified AMPEX DUPLICATING EQUIPMENT was set to operate at a ratio of only 4-to-1 (running master at 60 ips; recorded copies at 30 ips, or only 4 TIMES the normal playing speed of 7 1/2 ips).  Because of this SLOW DUPLICATION speed, combined with the carefully made B-C running master and the use of the most expensive premium polyester-based, Audiotape Q-15,  low noise tape they were able to produce a commercially available tape that captures the FULL RANGE, BRILLIANCE, and TONAL SUBTLETIES of the original master, far surpassing the ORIGINAL REEL TO REEL RELEASE by the record company, if one was even released!  The DOLBY B noise-reduction process was used on all but an select few recordings which were recorded processed to the DBX II standard in extremely low quanities per selection.

For TEN glorious years (1976-1986) the BARCLAY-CROCKER CO painstakingly offered a product uniquely qualified to become bonafied exceptions to the limiting conditions which were then offered to the Reel To Reel listening public.  To say that BC was the state-of-the-art source of it's day for reels is a cliched understatement.  BC's very limited releases are simply extremely RARE EXAMPLES OF RECORDED MUSIC PERFECTION.

 WHAT DOES THE QUALITY CONTROL NUMBER ON THE BACK OF MY BC REEL MEAN? 

KEY: The first number indicates the slave on which the tape was duplicated, the second the year (i.e. 9 for 1979, 0 for 1980, 4 for 1984), the next two numbers would be the month (08 would be August) and the final two numbers the day.  The letters following the QC are the operator's initials.  RF= Richard Fill, WC= Wayne Chin, EH = Erich Hissel and a few HBs  = Henry Barclay! (Some tapes do not have operator numbers).

DOLBY,  DBX II, INSERTS & SONIC SENTRY

Most were encoded in Dolby B noise reduction and a select few were encoded in DBX II (DBX I was designed for 15 ips tapes, Professional. The firm reproduced commercial titles from several record labels during their all too-brief existence. Their releases, mostly classical, were generally accompanied by a nice text insert that described the work, composer, etc. Production volumes varied from several hundred copies for most titles to fewer than 100 for some.
A unique feature of this firm's tapes is their use of Sonic Sentry, an audible signal that marked the beginning of the content of Side 1 on tapes whose content is significantly shorter on Side 1 than Side 2. They also used Dolby-level tones on all B-C Dolby tapes at the end of Side 1 and at the start of Side 2. These tones can be used to calibrate a Dolby unit, and for those who do not have a deck with automatic reverse, the Dolby tones are helpful as a reminder that the tape is about to run out.  These topics and others are discussed in a text insert that is found in most Barclay-Crocker tapes.

THE BARCLAY-CROCKER 'CURSE'

Beware of B-Cs transcribed in 1977 and 1978 (see above) on labels, Vanguard, Musical Heritage Society, Desmar & Unicorn as there is a serious chance that they have sticky shred syndrome (sss) aka loss of lubricant (lol) problems.   This was due to the first type of tape chosen to begin the entire B-C enterprise.  A lot of these problem tapes were replaced by B-C without charge but there are hundreds of these defected tapes out there. Dano (ramblin-jack) has encountered at least a dozen, but will never sell them.

  

   

>SENT FROM A SMOKE-FREE ENVIRONMENT! >SHIPPED MEDIA MAIL W/ TRACKING NUMBER! >SHIPPED IN A 8" X 8" X 3" CARDBOARD BOX! >ADDED PADDING FOR ULTIMATE PROTECTION! >LARGE RED "FRAGILE PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE" STICKER
ALL REEL TAPES LISTED BY AZIGZAG MUSIC: NO: Sticky-Shred syndrome (squealing due to loss of lubricant) NO: Waffling (heat damage to tape causing "wobble ride") NO: Tension stretching (tape stretched-pulled-tweaked) NO: Splicing repairs (within program playback) NO: Drop-outs (intermittent loss of programing sound) NO: Low fidelity issues (crap sound, unusually reduced "highs") 

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"Where our quality exceeds your expectations"

  

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