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Post by tonybiker on Mar 3, 2009 13:09:09 GMT
Found this on the well known auction site and had to wonder just how hard recording must have been years ago. cgi.the well known auction site.co.uk/HMV-2202-VALVE-4-TRACK-REEL-TO-REEL-TAPE-RECORDER-VGWO_W0QQitemZ300297253375QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Consumer_VintageAudio_RL?hash=item300297253375&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318 |
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Post by kipper on Mar 3, 2009 15:51:01 GMT
but what a lovley looking thing it is. and his other items as well. peter
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Post by olemuso on Mar 3, 2009 17:12:54 GMT
As a youngster I used to mess around with my dad`s Stella 3-speed, 4-track reel-to-reel.  That`s when I discovered how to make "chipmunks" voices and also mucked about with sound-on-sound. Little did I realise how important the latter would become  |
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Post by bill on Mar 3, 2009 21:24:03 GMT
Hi,
I used a Grundig TK5 that was my Dads. Not as fancy as that new fangled thing in the link ;D
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Post by graeme on Mar 4, 2009 9:24:08 GMT
I got my first tape recorder (a Philips) in 1960 - and I still have several working machines.
I don't think recording was any harder then, although editing tape is a real skill. Modern gear is certainly more convenient (and better quality) but the principles are much the same.
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Post by Tone on Mar 4, 2009 12:34:35 GMT
When I got my first job in 1962 I treated myself to an Elzabethan Popular 400 4 track tape recorder (does anyone remember them?). It was the first and only thing I ever bought on HP - 6/6d per week!
It gave me good service for several years and I then got a Grundig TK (I can't remember the exact model). As I still had the Elizabethan I used to experiment with sound on sound recordings using my guitar (a Hofner V2). Good fun but the end results sounded absolute c**p!
Happy days!
Tony
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Post by 5tratocaster on Mar 5, 2009 18:11:36 GMT
I well remember borrowing my Dad's tape recorder and taking it to my friends, (whose Dad also had one).
We set them up side by side and put a full reel of tape on the left hand spool of the left hand deck, then threaded the tape through to the right hand spool of the right hand deck. I then plugged my guitar into the first one and set it to record, then set the second one to play and BINGO, we had our first echo unit.
Geoff
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Post by Amanda Hambidge on Mar 5, 2009 18:34:00 GMT
A friend and I used to do multitrack synth recordings using a Ferrograph series 7 4 track and "track bouncing" adding a new track each time.
Amanda
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Post by tonybiker on Mar 6, 2009 0:52:22 GMT
And it sold for just £29.99 !! What a steal....
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Post by noelford on Mar 7, 2009 18:13:30 GMT
I still have the Ferrograph which I bought in the early sixties for just under a hundred pounds. My band (group, as we used to say) had just turned pro at the time. We must have been doing okay - that was a lot of dosh then!
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Post by Charlie Hall on Mar 7, 2009 22:09:38 GMT
I had a Ferrograph Series 7 quarter track which I converted to run at high speed. I managed to get 7 generations of track bouncing but I wouldn't say the results were fantastic.
Regards,
Charlie
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That`s when I discovered how to make "chipmunks" voices and also mucked about with sound-on-sound. Little did I realise how important the latter would become 
