1 inch 16 tracks

[Flames]

I'm just curiuse, did fostex ever make a 1 inch 16 track reel to reel deck.
I have a faint memory about using such deck a couple of years ago, but at that time not that much into recording as now.

[bdbdbuck]

Greetings Flames! Dude, all the times I was in a studio, I never even saw a 1" machine, You musta been spendin the bucks! I on the other hand was goin to Barnies Bargain basement studios. Hey, dont laugh..that purple dude can mix with the best of em. I do think that Fostex probably did make a 1" machine, but the guys who would know for sure probably don't hang in the Fostex forum. Try another thread maybe.

[Osbick Bird]

I'm pretty sure they did make at least one model of 1" 16-track. The inhabitants of the analog-only forum on this site would probably be able to confirm it and tell you all about it if you were to head that way...

OB

[sjjohnston]

Fostex was pretty much committed to the 8-tracks-go-on-1/4" and 16-tracks-go-on-1/2" design and marketing philosophy. They did make a stereo 1/2" machine though, so who knows.

There was, I think, a 1" 24 track from Fostex (the G24, I think?).

There were a few Tascam 1" 16-tracks (e.g. the MS16), but you probably know that.

[skippy]

I don't think so- the G16 was a 1/2" 16-track. The G24 was a 1" 24-track. But I don't think they ever did do a 1" 16-track. Tascam and Otari did, and you could get 16-track headstacks to retrofit onto a lot of other transports...

Fostex's thing back in the early 80's was "more tracks on less tape", pretty much...

[skippy]

Crossed replies with you, SJ! Sorry about that...

[Flames]

I know they did a stereo 1/2 inch deck, the e22 I belive it's called.
Tascam contribution to the 1 inch 16 track format is, the Teac 85-16, MS-16 and finaly the ATR 60-16, what I know.
Though fostex is more like the consumer brand in the reel to reel world, Tascam is more the pro, semi-pro brand. I myself own a Tascam 38, and compared to the Fostex A8 a friend of mine has, the 38 is far superior to the A8, but who's surpriced.
The Fostex product I do would like to own is the e22, it can run in both 15 ips and 30 ips, really nice.

But is there really no 1 inch 16 track Fostex?