Adds from the past

[Herm]

And now for some adds from the past From a 1982 magazine.

The future

[Herm]

And the second page of the add

[Dr ZEE]

heh heh nice papers
and here's a guy who "gave up" on the future - get the future for about seven hundered bucks ...

[The Ghost of FM]

I might have one or two on my hard drive.

[fellwinter]

1949! wow

[The Ghost of FM]

Here's another!

[fellwinter]

You ever notice how much cooler these machines seem? Reel to reel's in general.. I mean you can sit there and 'watch' the media being recorded.. with digital there is no perceptual feedback like there is with analog.. I love analog lol.

[The Ghost of FM]

Originally Posted by fellwinter

1949! wow

Yeah!

I scooped a bunch of stuff off of the Ampex site a while ago and it took forever to download the stuff because their server is painfully slow.

I've got tons of this kind of stuff but it's all too big a file size to post here and I'd have to resize, (read shrink) the photos to get them to upload here and then the print becomes too small to read on many of them.

Here's a link to the site where I got them from.

http://recordist.com/ampex/

Cheers!

[Beck]

Originally Posted by fellwinter

You ever notice how much cooler these machines seem? Reel to reel's in general.. I mean you can sit there and 'watch' the media being recorded.. with digital there is no perceptual feedback like there is with analog.. I love analog lol.

Exactly. I find the same thing with wind turbines vs. solar panels. I like to hear it/see it working.

[Beck]

...........

[Ding Dong]

(in the vioce of the lady from napolean dynamite) "I want that..."

[cjacek]

Anyone ever see anything like this ??

[cjacek]

Can you spot the TASCAM 388 ?

[Herm]

Is that you Daniel?

[cjacek]

Originally Posted by Herm

Is that you Daniel?

No, it's just some fellow from a mic ad, if I'm not mistaken, that I cut/edited the bottom part off ...

[Dr ZEE]

Originally Posted by cjacek

Can you spot the TASCAM 388 ?

what I can spot is, that the damn coffe mug is in very bad position and looks like pretty unstable ... When you do things like that, then all you can do later is to say "Oopsy-poopsy!" ...

[cjacek]

Originally Posted by Dr ZEE

what I can spot is, that the damn coffe mug is in very bad position and looks like pretty unstable ... When you do things like that, then all you can do later is to say "Oopsy-poopsy!" ...

Good call. Yeah, I didn't look that close but I shudder at the thought of it spilling onto the nice 388.

[The Ghost of FM]

Originally Posted by cjacek

Good call. Yeah, I didn't look that close but I shudder at the thought of it spilling onto the nice 388.

If the fellow in that ad is a real musician, he's probably broke and uses that cup to beg for change on the street. Ergo; the mug is empty and harmless.

Cheers!

[Dr ZEE]

Originally Posted by The Ghost of FM

If the fellow in that ad is a real musician, he's probably broke and uses that cup to beg for change on the street. Ergo; the mug is empty and harmless.

Cheers!

huh hah huh!
o.k. let me try this line of thoughts....
If the fellow in that ad is a real musician... ... then he gets really exited at some point of the performance, starts moving to the beat a lil'too'much, kicks the desk, the mug falls, stale coffee runs all over... The guy turns around and starts screaming: "Ow! Beatch! F*k! Look what I've done! Ouch! Crap! Look what I've done to my music-notes!.... DamnIt!" , He quickly grabs his precious note-book, shakes and swings it hard, trying to shake the coffee off the sheets, which creates even more mess all over the 388 plus all over the speakers, keyboards and what ever or whoever else is around....

[arjoll]

Damn, I seem to remember throwing out my 1992 Tascam catalogue with price list from Direct Imports. I hope I didn't.... will have to have a look sometime.

[Beck]

I had an old box full of brochures that I threw away about 15 years ago. It had all the Fostex stuff from the A8 and on, including the mixers and cassette studios to that time. Also had all the info on the Akai 12-tracks, and a few Tascam products. Lots of keyboard brochures back to the 70's.

Yes, my but still hurts from kicking myself later.

Luckily I found a bunch of Tascam, Yamaha, Otari, Fostex, Alesis, Kurzweil, Ensoniq and other brochures in a filing cabinet I forgot I had. I even bought a Tascam 388 brochure on ebay for $9.99 to punish myself for being such an idiot. I had an original from a local store around for years, but threw it away in a garage cleaning frenzy.

Now I don't throw anything away -- I just make more room.

The worst thing I ever threw away (in the same garage cleaning frenzy) was an old rack-mount Electro-Harmonix vocoder. Back when I got it I traded it for some cheap pedal chorus. Believe it or not, back in the day Electro-Harmonix was not highly valued – most of their stuff was cheap and noisy.

Anyway, a few months after I threw the vocoder away I started getting interested in ebay… found them selling for between $250-$300. “SHIT!” I exclaimed.

[Dr ZEE]

Originally Posted by Beck

The worst thing I ever threw away (in the same garage cleaning frenzy) was an old rack-mount Electro-Harmonix vocoder.

auch! ...that hurts!
You know what I did? ... maybe no big deal..but still. about 10-12 y.ago ??? I had Roberts r-t-r machine ...the one similar to akai with 8-track built-in on the side... damn ugly thing...and it worked just fine.... someone just gave it to me, and I kept it for some time , never used. I lived in pretty small apartment then. So one day I just took the machine out (together with big box of reels and a collection of 8-track oldies (I never really looked into what was in that collection))...and simply put all that stuff into trash-container. Now when I look back to that event of my life, I think of it like I was in some sort of trance-madness state of mind or something, because as I can recall, I had no emotions what so ever as I was carring the machine out and putting it into garbage container (yeah, like "voices" told me to do it ). heh heh ....

oh well....

who else? what's your story, guys? spit it out - let it go, God will forgive you...

[The Ghost of FM]

When I moved, back in June of this year, I went from a 3 story, 4 bedroom townhouse to a 2 bedroom apartment. I was packing and throwing out stuff for 5 months prior to the move date and the list of stuff I discarded, sold for next to nothing, or gave away includes but is not limited to this following items;

a set of drums,
a home-made, flying V electric guitar,
a Traynor Reverb Master guitar head amp,
a matching cabinet with dual 12" drivers,
a ten band eq,
a Sony 53" XBR projection TV,
a Triphonic 3A bass table which is a huge coffee table sub-woofer with 4, 12" drivers with a 150 watt rack mount power amp to drive it,
approx 800 magazines,
dozens of posters,
Countless bags of cloths,
an 8track stereo system,
a pair of Realistic MC800 speakers,
a Russound a/v patch bay,
an Apple computer,
a home-made PC,
two perfectly good sofas,
3 ottomans,
half a dozen chairs of assorted styles,
various shelving units,
fishing gear,
old hand tools - a tool box full,
a complete bedroom set with night tables, tall and long dressers and a new Sealy Posturpedic mattress,
a second bedroom set with single bed,
a foyer table,
a 4'x6' wall mirror,
hundreds of pieces of various brick-a-brack,
rugs,
wall to wall broadloom carpeting,
20' floor to ceiling gold Levelor metal vertical blinds,
assorted blinds and drapes,
a lazy-boy recliner,
a 25" Magnavox console TV,
a 20" RCA TV,
6 garbage bags full of towels, sheets and blankets,
a dozen pillows,

And, a thousand other items I can't recall or care to catalog right now BUT, I kept all my old TASCAM brochures, Mix, Stereo Review and Home Recording magazines!

Cheers!