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| Quantity | 1 |
| Condition | Excellent / Few Scratches |
| Location | North America |
| Previous Use | Corporate |
| Warranty | 7 Day |
Used on various corporate events. Cleaned and maintained by in house technicians.
24 track 2" Recorder
(1) A820
(1) MRL 2" test tape
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The Swiss based company Studer is one of the leaders worldwide for professional audio. Founded by Willi Studer in 1948, over the years the company and its brand name Studer became synonymous for broadcasting and recording equipment. Today Studer...
There is a surprising paucity of Information about the Studer A820 on the web - even photos are scarce. We hope that this webpage will help raise awareness of the Studer A820 as one of the best machines for archival preservation work, and why we have chosen to standardize upon it at The Audio Archive.
The text and images below are taken from a vintage 1980s Studer A820 Professional Tape Recorder brochure. Copyright WILLI Studer AG, CH-8105 Regensdorf-Zurich, Switzerland.
Rather than simply scan the brochure, we transcribe the text in its entirety so that it is searchable from The Audio Archive search box on this webpage. In a few places, we do make comments and highlight features of the Studer A820 - these comments and highlights are in an alternative color.
This is not your typical marketing brochure. Studer clearly has the heart and mind of an engineering company - the Studer machines were made by tape Recording perfectionists, for tape Recording perfectionists. Rather than hyperbole, the brochure reads more like an introduction to an operating manual or a product management MRD (Marketing Requirements Document). The German-to-English translation by Studer is a bit clumsy at times, but still very readable and immensely informative.
The Swiss based company Studer is one of the leaders worldwide for professional audio. Founded by Willi Studer in 1948, over the years the company and its brand name Studer became synonymous for broadcasting and recording equipment. Today Studer is able to offer solutions for nearly every application in the field of Professional Audio. Studer products are invented and manufactured in Regensdorf / Switzerland. The product range includes equipment and systems for TV / Radio Broadcast, Recording and Production Studios, or 19" components for system applications.
Sound recording is a form of recording or reproduction using electrical and mechanical translation of the sound waves. The sounds recorded are usually spoken voice, instrumental music, singing and sound effects. Audio recording can either be analog or digital. Analog recording uses a transducer such as a microphone to record sounds analogous to the air pressure surrounding the sound being recorded. The analog recorder may use a microphone diaphragm for acoustic sound recording. This microphone is highly sensitive to changes in the pressure of the acoustic sound waves. It records these sounds in graphic representations such as the phonograph that records grooves with a stylus. Sound waves from electronics can be directly reproduced from the pickups of an electric guitar or synthesizer. These are commonly used by musicians to hear how well they are doing during a recording session. Digital recording is the direct recording of audio or video into a storage device that records it as binary numbers representing the modifications in atmospheric pressure of the sound. The record can be stored and read back to be reproduced. This type of recording is more accurate and is more resistant to errors compared to analog recording. Both however have their own limitations. The analog system is bound by the capabilities of the medium and circuits used to record. In the digital system, the ratio of signal to noise is bound by the bit depth of the modification from analog to digital. Natural noise is a common limitation of both recording systems.
A820 - A820 2 inch 24 track recording analog. From installation.
