What Every Budding Tape Home Rec'r Needs

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In the Swedish musicians mag 'Musikermagasinet' there was an article about a guy who bught Swedens oldest still running studio, the old EMI studios in Stockholm, and renovated them. A quote from the magazine is something like "Buying Swedens oldest studio also ment that he bought Swedens largest analog heap of everythings". :)

He has two Otari 24s, which are never used at all. Bloody sacrilege, if you ask me, but OK... :D He also has some Yamaha digital tape multi-trackers, which he claims sounds wonderful, but nobody ever uses, everything is done in pro-tools instead. He'd throw them out if he could figure out a way to lift these really heavy machines over the consoles. :eek:

The whole article is like that, "and we have these old cool things, nobody ever uses them anymore, and these ones, and those over there, not to mention this large liveroom that can house a small symphony orchestra, which is used as a coffee room..." :rolleyes:
 
regebro said:

He'd throw them out if he could figure out a way to lift these really heavy machines over the consoles. :eek:
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I'll fly over to sweden and hire a crane in Stockholm if it's what it takes to have them

:D :D
 
Roker1 said:
I'll fly over to sweden and hire a crane in Stockholm if it's what it takes to have them

:D :D
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Well, you'll have to lift the roof of the house first. Doesn't sound easy. :)
 
though people say that 2" 16-tracks are better 'cause they have higher fidelity...
 
smythology said:
though people say that 2" 16-tracks are better 'cause they have higher fidelity...
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right on smythilogy....that would be the "dream machine"....which I would porobably get b4 the 24 track
 
smythology said:
though people say that 2" 16-tracks are better 'cause they have higher fidelity...
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They do, but 24" are good enough, and have more tracks. I'll take that, thank you. :)


I've heard of 2-inch 8-tracks! I'm not sure they actually exist though. :)
 
regebro said:

I've heard of 2-inch 8-tracks! I'm not sure they actually exist though. :)
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Didn't Beatles use something like that...or maybe a 1" 4-track...
 
I have a friend that has an old seismology machine. If I remember correctly it is a 12 track and runs somewhere near 90 ips. I heard a few recordings he did on it and they sound pretty good. I think it was british. I'm sure it eats through reels pretty quickly.
 
OK, he just won the "Coolest recording equipment of the thread"-award. :)
 
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