Interesting wire recorder

[Muckelroy]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Silvertone-...ryZ29833QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Anybody wanna be brave and give this one a shot?

 

[MCI2424]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Silvertone-...ryZ29833QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Anybody wanna be brave and give this one a shot?

That is the earliest digital rigs I have ever seen. Notice the clock. I wonder what the clock rate is? 44.1, 48 or 96K?

Anyone know?

 

[Muckelroy]

My guess is that the clock rate is 1 sample per second

 

[Muckelroy]

Has anyone reading this post ever HEARD a wire recorder?

I read a website describing them, and apparently the BIGGEST degrader of sound quality on wire reels was the crystal microphone that came with most wire recorders.

Apparently, feeding them a clean signal gives MUCH better results (no sh**)

Anyone fed line level to one, or used it to mix a section of a track/song for some ultra lo-fi color? Sounds like a possibility...

 

[Flangerhans]

When I was a kid, my dad had one. From my memories, the reproduction wasn't bad, but then I was a kid. I understand that these things run at very high speeds, and the power needed to print onto them required tubes. I do know that the wire my dad's ran made very poor guitar strings, though.

 

[Muckelroy]

haha. good one

 

[robin watson]

A friend of mine had 7 of these for multitracking - a bitch to synch together, and location recording required a mini van.

Chrome plated wires (if you can find them) offer better frequency response, but you have to reconfigure the coil head's driver tube to a cathode follower to achieve the higher bias required.