Quoting Ed Glick: > I think I wrote you a long time ago about my experience with > "portable" tape recorders. In 1951, I worked for the only recording > studio in Boston that had Ampex recorders. They had bought their > first Ampex before I began working there. The high speed for > recording music was 30 inches per second (ips); the speed for > recording voice was 15 ips. By time I got there, their second > recorder had come dowon to 15/7.5 ips. We advertised that we had > portable Ampexes for location recording. What that meant was that > handles had been put on two sides of one of the recorders and two of > us picked it up, placed it in a station wagon (no minivans yet) took > it out of the car, carried into the site (sometimes up flights of > stairs and set it up.
For many years I carried an Ampex 351-2 around for all my recordings. The recordings of Adam Graham on my recording tips web page were recorded with an Ampex 351-2 at 15 ips. They sound great and are ultra-reliable, but they are heavy. A friend, now deceased, who used to work for Ampex (he came up with the idea for Les Paul's eight-track Ampex Model 300, despite Paul's claims to the contrary) said that the guy pictured in their advertising carrying a Model 300 transport in one hand and electronics in the other was about 6' 7" tall and strong as an ox. As of a few years ago, this fellow was still alive! > But they made great recordings, esp > ecially when used with what was then called the new Telefunken > condenser microphone. (It was made by Neumann and I think that > sometime after that they were sold as "Neumanns." Am I right about > that?) Right. You're probably thinking of the U47. Quoting Lawrence Yates: > I have a minidisk which has all but given up the ghost, in addition to > which, I am finding it increasingly difficult to get blank disks, and so I > need to find something to replace it. The world is obviously moving away from recording equipment with moving parts. I'd suggest getting something that records to a flash memory card and that allows the recordings to be transferred to your computer via USB, as described by someone else. Howard Sanner [email protected] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
