Comments on: Time (part one)

By: Kermit Gray

Kermit Gray — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:58:56 +0000

All my recording gear is still vintage. Still love it, still making great music. It’s an odd mix of TEAC/TASCAM (80-8, A3440), Revox (A77, B77-HS) and Ampex (602, 350) gear, with a TEAC Model 5 console, Crown D75 monitor amps pushing Klipsch La Scala monitors, and a bunch of signal processors I made from DIY articles gleaned from magazines from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The Putnam-style mic preamp is amazing.

About 60 microphones, all of them 1960s and 1970s-era: Reslo Celeste, Shure 300, AKG D200E, Altec condensers, Nakamichi CM1000 system, and an ugly ElectroVoice 644 as some of the less-mainstream.

Think of it as a museum that makes music.

By: bafflegab

bafflegab — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:17:33 +0000

Google “Turbo Encabulator”.

By: Greenson

Greenson — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:15:05 +0000

I found a pile of old training filmstrips and accompanying LP spoken word training records for a now long defunct dime store chain at a yard sale the other day. I have listened to the records: it’s spooky to think that the announcer is now probably long dead, and the concerns he voices now long irrelevant.

Think about the entire lives people put into the success of that company. Now does it matter in the least?

Old industrial and commercial material like this is a window into then that feature films can’t provide. They weren’t there to entertain but to get a certain job done, many times a job that no longer exists.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:56 +0000

What is the story with the house in the first several pictures?

By: Brad Rinkert

Brad Rinkert — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:00:07 +0000

I don’t use a lot of vintage recording equipment in my sound recording but I do have a couple pieces of really ancient test equipment I use pretty routinely, to wit, old Hewlett Packard tube AC and DC vtvm’s, audio generators and a sixties Nixie tube Motorola frequency counter. Yes, I also have modern ones. The old ones are faster and easier to use for some tasks.

When I go home, I listen to the radio over old radios. I have a few consumer regular old radios, but I do most of my serious AM listening on an old aircraft ADF originally powered by a dynamotor. I replaced it by two Vicor potted brick switchers-one to turn 140-160 vdc (the line voltage rectified and filtered) into 12.6 vdc and a second one to give 300 vdc for B+.