My first time (with a tape recorder, that is) was at a family friend's
house. He was a career Marine Corps officer and was home on Christmas
leave from Korea (where there was a war going on). He bought two tape
recorders, one to leave at home and one to take with him to send tapes
back to the family. He took back a recording of Christmas dinner at
their house. We were all laughing at how funny our voices sounded. I
don't remember the brand of recorder, but it was
pre-Wollensak/Revere/Webcor.

The first tape recorder I owned was a V-M (voice of Music) that I
bought from an older cousin who had a "hi fi" system. It was a mono
recorded but had stereo playback and he gave me a couple of
prerecorded stereo tapes along with it. It took me about a year to
save enough money to build another speaker and amplifier so I could
listen to stereo.

My second tape recorder was an Ampex and it's been all down hill from
there.

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My first time (with a tape recorder, that is) was at a family friend's
house. He was a career Marine Corps officer and was home on Christmas
leave from Korea (where there was a war going on). He bought two tape
recorders, one to leave at home and one to take with him to send tapes
back to the family. He took back a recording of Christmas dinner at
their house. We were all laughing at how funny our voices sounded. I
don't remember the brand of recorder, but it was
pre-Wollensak/Revere/Webcor.


My stepfather was a Marine and his was an AKAI. It had to be early 60's at
least.

"Mike Rivers"wrote in message
We were all laughing at how funny our voices sounded. I
don't remember the brand of recorder, but it was
pre-Wollensak/Revere/Webcor.


"Ricky W. Hunt" wrote:
My stepfather was a Marine and his was an AKAI. It had to be early 60's at
least.

My first was given to me by a friend of my dad's, both were military too. I
sort of remember it being an AKAI of some sort with 3 inch reels. My first use
of it was to add vocals to a Robot I had built. It didn't do anything so I
thought talking would be cool. I recorded some sentence's I thought would be
useful. Then I used the remote control and a long cord to clandestinely ( To
me at least...I was 6 years old...) to make Robot talk. Needless to say Robot
was limited in speech. Mostly he asked my mom for some cookies, and if he
could watch a TV program. You also had to ask the questions in the right
order, or his *functions* would take a while. It was great fun for me. Robot
also ended up being out front at Halloween. He only said one thing which was a
bit distorted...*No Tricks. Only Candy Please!*.


--
Nathan

"Imagine if there were no Hypothetical Situations"

Mike Rivers wrote:


The first tape recorder I owned was a V-M (voice of Music) that I
bought from an older cousin who had a "hi fi" system. It was a mono
recorded but had stereo playback and he gave me a couple of
prerecorded stereo tapes along with it. It took me about a year to
save enough money to build another speaker and amplifier so I could
listen to stereo.


My best friend had one of those, so I had to get a machine. I only had
$100, so I bought a Sony TC-101 1/4" half-track with 7" reels, no stereo
for this kid. I found that I could push the record lever up halfway and
wedge it there with a matchbook and the input would go to the speaker,
making it double as my guitar amp. And a kitchen knife taped to the
erase head let me do sound-on-sound.

I recorded the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, and listening to that I
realized that Paul's mic was off and I could hear what Lennon was
singing on I Saw Her Standing There. Happy Birthday, John.

I got my start in the mid 80's, with my first real recorder. I was in my early
20's, one day a band mate pulled out this new recorder he just got, it was a
Fostex X15. We had an old TEAC open real (I forget what model) but it was only
two track stereo and it didn't work very well. I think he paid around $500.00
for the X15 an early 4-track cassette recorder, you can get them now for
$99.00.
The next year Fostex came out with the X26 so he sold me the X15 (I think for
about $200.00) and got the X26, I played and recorded that thing to death. I
can't even begin to know how may hours (at least a 1000) I put on it but when I
sold it in 1997 track 1 and 4 sounded slightly muffled compared to 2 and 3.

Ricky W. Hunt"

"Mike Rivers" wrote
My first time (with a tape recorder, that is) was at a family friend's
house. He was a career Marine Corps officer and was home on Christmas
leave from Korea (where there was a war going on). He bought two tape
recorders, one to leave at home and one to take with him to send tapes
back to the family. He took back a recording of Christmas dinner at
their house. We were all laughing at how funny our voices sounded. I
don't remember the brand of recorder, but it was
pre-Wollensak/Revere/Webcor.


My stepfather was a Marine and his was an AKAI. It had to be early 60's at
least

1971 in High School, I borrowed 2 tape machines from my Humanities Class
for my semester project (which as long as I submitted I didn't have to actually
attend class.) I wrote a bunch of songs including the "Trout Fishing In
America" theme for my buddy Sean's Semester 8mm Movie Project, and my friend
Mario (whose big brother Mike Reed's band "Gold Rush Blues Band" opened for
Zepplin) came over and we recorded them in my bedroom bouncing between decks
over a weekend.

Maybe Sony decks and Shure mics, a couple of Harmony Guitars (a Rocket and
a better one) and a Fender Strat, and a Supro amp, and a Pro Reverb and a
Vibro- Verb.

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

I found a cool ad for the '56 Revere I started out on...(Doris Day not
included). My dad bought it used in the early '60s, check out the suggested
price in 1956.

http://www.phantomprod.com/vinAd56RevereDorisDay.jpg

This site has ads for just about every vintage deck.

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"Jay Kadis" wrote in message
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I found a cool ad for the '56 Revere I started out on...(Doris Day not
included). My dad bought it used in the early '60s, check out the
suggested
price in 1956.

http://www.phantomprod.com/vinAd56RevereDorisDay.jpg

This site has ads for just about every vintage deck.

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Peace,
Paul