[Jürgen Schöpf[_2_]]

Dear colleagues,

I am searching for early examples of multi track location recording
machinery, projects, and people who have used them - especially in
social sciences
research. I'd guess movie sound was the earliest application of multi
track outside the studios of music production, but with what machinery
and when? I know Ampex delivered their first 8-track to les Paul in
1957,
but that was definitely not a mobile device :-)

I also know some french musicologists have used overdub techniques
with two
stereo machines in field recording for some time (Simha Arom and his
group of researchers), possibly in the 1980s.

But perhaps the consumer 4-track compact cassette (home studio)
machines
like the famous Tascam PortaStudio of 1979 was the earliest used in
field recrording? ...

I would be grateful for any hints

Best Regards
:-J

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