Ampex machine's high price tag. Ampex sold only about 50 or 60 ATR-124 machines, and withdrew from the professional audio tape recorder market entirely in 1983. By the 1990s, Ampex focused more on video recorders, instrumentation recorders, and data recorders. In 1991, Ampex sold their professional audio recorder line to Sprague Magnetics. The Ampex Recording Media Corporation spun off in 1995 as Quantegy Inc.; that company has ceased producing recording tape. Starting in the early 1950s, RCA, Bing Crosby and others tried to record analog video on very fast-moving magnetic tape. As early as 1952, Ampex developed prototype video tape recorders
Golden State Recorders at the College for Recording Arts died on January 14, 2014, aged 65. Golden State Recorders Golden State Recorders was a San Francisco recording studio that was owned by Leo De Gar Kulka. Some of the albums recorded at the studio were Brewer & Shipley's second album "Weeds" in 1969, sessions for The Beau Brummels originally recorded between 1964-1966 and released as "San Fran Sessions" in 1996, and The Grateful Dead's "Birth of the Dead", recorded in 1965 and released in 2003. The recording studio was opened by Kulka when he came to San Francisco in 1964. It was located