Re: [ARSCLIST] Looking for vintage open reel tape machine

[Michael Biel <mbiel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Cosentini wrote:
> Hey if you really want to go vintage I have an Chicago-Webster Wire 
> recorder that still works, with the original microphone. Oh the fidelity.
>
> Adriano

Of course you could do the recordings on acoustical cylinders, and 
actually there have been some notable cylinder recording sessions in the 
last 10 or 15 years including the Fisk Univ Jubilee Singers at ARSC in 
Nashville.   And we had a good demo of recording on tinfoil at the 2008 
ARSC.  Or it could be recorded on lacquer discs like I had my ARSC talk 
on the introduction of instantaneous cut on discs by Graham Newton.  
That also was the session when I played the Ultimate Columbia 
Double-Disc Record.  I successfully played it in a CD player, and then 
put it on an acoustical wind-up Victor Victrola VV-X where it played one 
of the Columbia Double Disc demonstration records.  "A point to 
remember.  Columbia Double Disc Records will play on either Columbia or 
Victor machines, and they will unfailingly outwear any other record."

Mike Biel  mbiel@xxxxxxxxx 

>   From: "Ben Torre" <btorre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> > At 05:55 PM 3/10/2009, you wrote:
> > > In my opinion, a Nagra IV represents THE golden age in analog 
> > > recording.
> >
> > No arguments there.
> >
> > > Through the 1980s, NPR engineers often used them (and even more 
> > > frequently their mic preamps) when making studio recordings.
> >
> > Didn't you guys also use the Philips MD-series boards back then?