Posts Tagged ‘old’

I found this while I was cleaning my basement. It was made in the 1960′s. It probably doesn’t work as well as it used to, but I still think it’s cool. (Music recorded from AFTN, The American Forces Thailand’s Network!!!)

A very nive reel-to-reel I got at an estate sale yesterday.

The ONLY way to listen to music is with reel-to-reel. Trust me, I’m a hipster. I spend like 15.260 hours a day researching this stuff. Don’t even talk to me about Ipods,.way too mainstream for me Think your VINYL Suburbs album is hot stuff?? Wait until you hear it on reel to reel playing at 7 1/4 IPS (way better than any 1 3/8 IPS cassette tape) I’m gonna sit and chill with Arcade Fire…

In this video I show a Conrad “Stereophonic” all-tube reel-to-reel tape recorder that I modified into a bitchin amp! From wht I could discover on the net, the unit is vintage 1950′s or early 60′s. I simply removed all the mechanical parts, motor, etc that had to do with the tap drive, re-wired the input jacks to connect to where the tape heads were originally wired, and presto! It was an amp! It’s got a built in 3×6 speaker. The rest of the setup you see in the vid is: flashlight mic with old cell phone ear bud element into danelctro equalizer pedal into passive splitter with one channel going to a 5 wat legedary pignose, and the other going into the conrad. The riffs I’m playing are my own compositions, and are works in progress. Please be kind!

HERE IS MY OLD CR2 TV AND IT WORKS BUT HAS SOME PROBLEMS WITH IT AND COMMENT HOW YOU LIKE IT

If you want to know what 60′s radio was like, play this. I was going through my Reel to Reel tapes, and I found this. I’m not quite sure if I got the year right, but I think that’s what I heard on the other side of the tape. I’ve had to cut the music short to avoid copyright issues and get the video short enough for YouTube. The quality isn’t too good, there’s drop-outs and distortion in places. I don’t know who recorded it, or what machine they used, but I’m sure it was recorded in the US, so how it got here I don’t know. Most of my reel to reel tapes I got from the web, used, so maybe that explains it.

As the title states… OLD SCHOOL MONO Part_01 is the OLDEST mono recording that I have. It is on 3/8th inch REEL_to_REEL (spools of) magnetic tape… This is so OLD_SCHOOL It was done very long ago (sometime in the late 50′s) NOTE… pure “gramophonic” mono… & Thus probably from my (late) Mum’s 78rpm records

a portable homemade reel to reel

From late 50s or early 60s I guess, this machine uses 2 tubes and uses 5″ reels. It has 7 1/2 and 3 3/4 IPS speeds. It has a crystal mic I’m sure, and was worked on to be in working condition.

I no longer have this machine.