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Welcome to MANCO

• Welcome to MANCO
• Meet Dale Manquen

Products

• Altair T2DS Tape and Transport Diagnostic System
  • Sideband distortions - the neglected culprit
    • A WIDEBAND TAPE AND TRANSPORT DIAGNOSTIC METHOD
    • THE ALTAIR TAPE AND TRANSPORT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM
  • Check all the flutter components including scrape flutter
    • THE EFFECTS OF AM AND FM MODULATION
    • THE FLUTTER STORY BOOK
    • USING THE FLUTTER DATABASE
    • THE FLUTTER DATABASE
    • FLUTTER DATABASE - DOWNLOADABLE EXCEL SPREADSHEET
    • FLUTTER MEASUREMENT - THE BOOK
  • Testing tape and tape-to-head contact
    • WHY SHOULD WE TEST TAPE?
  • Also see Chapter 28 of the Handbook for Sound Engineers 3rd Edition edited by Glen Ballou, published by Focal Press
• Flux loop products
  • SPREADSHEET AND GRAPHS OF MAGNETIC RECORDER THEORETICAL RESPONSE
    • SPREADSHEET TUTORIAL WITH FIGURES
    • RESPONSE FOR AG440 IN EXCEL 5.0
  • MAGNETIC RECORDER TESTING WITH A FLUX LOOP
  • MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES FOR FERRITE HEADS
  • MANCO FLUX LOOP PRODUCTS
• Direct drive servos for 3M Isoloop transports
  • CAPSTAN SERVO KIT FOR 3M ISOLOOP RECORDERS

Penny & Giles Fader Information

• MANCO Business Description, Inventory, Payment Terms, Contact Information
• Purpose of these postings
• How a P&G fader is made (Adobe Acrobat pdf)
• P&G fader families (Adobe Acrobat pdf)
• Parts lists for P & G 1100 and 1500 Series faders and GML motorized faders, including sketches to help identify the proper contact assembly part numbers.
• P&G fader testing procedures
• The Flying Faders motorized fader
  • Variants of the Flying Faders fader
  • Fader Maintenance Procedure
  • Testing procedures
    • Flying Fader Motor Tester Schematic
  • Replacement parts
  • A preliminary draft of a Motorized Faders application note is available directly from MANCO. Please email dmanquen@msn.com for a copy.
• P&G Accessories

Audio Engineering Society topics

• First draft of history library proposal
• The Evolution of Audio Tape Recorders

Technical and Tutorial Articles

• Internal construction of the Ampex ATR-100 metal-faced ferrite heads (All of the 'photos' were made by scanning the components directly on the bed of an HP3200C ScanJet flatbed scanner.)
  • Reproduce head - start here
  • Flux Gate record head
  • Dual gap erase head

Services

• Flying Faders
  • Installations
  • Conversion to different console type
  • Customizations
  • Enhancements
  • Preventive maintenance and
  • Repair
• Custom electronic and electromechanical design
  • Electronics
  • Tape recorder reproduce electronics
  • Diagnostic radio receiver for gocart tracks
• Custom Modifications to Recording Console Mechanical Structures
  • O’Henry’s ‘New’ API console
  • Adding Flying Faders to a Neve Melbourn sidecar
  • Making things fit properly in older consoles
• Electronics assembly and testing
  • Production testing of PAS crossovers
• Critical evaluation and testing of audio products
  • In-flight entertainment systems
  • Background music system tape reproducers
  • Background music system optical disk reproducers

Educational programs

• TAPE RECORDER THEORY AND MAINTENANCE COURSE
• Flying Faders maintenance
• CSUN with link to audio@utac.net

Historical articles by Dale Manquen

• NEW ELECTRONICS FOR THE 3M MASTER TAPE RECORDER October 1967
• The story behind the Model 56
• NEW COMPACT 16-TRACK, 2-INCH RECORDER/REPRODUCER October 1968
• A LARGE CAPACITY 24 TRACK 2 INCH CONTINUOUS LOOP BIN REPRODUCER October 1982 (Used at EPCOT Center)
• A spoken history of the career of Dale Manquen

Contact information

• Web
  • E-mail: dmanquen@msn.com
  • Forums
• Phone - (805) 529-2496
• FAX - (805) 529-2496 - No automatic pickup, must call beforehand to notify.

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