Some of my toys :-)

[Jay Pemberton]

Magnecord PT 6 BA, 1953 vintage staggered-head machine (non functional):

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/PT6BA.jpg

Heads detail:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/magbnheads.jpg

Akai GX-630D:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/AkaiGX630D.jpg

Mega-modified Tascam 34B, with modified dbx NR 40 type II NR units:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/Tascam34B.jpg

Teac A-2340SX:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/Teac2340SX.jpg

Akai X-200D:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/X200D.jpg

Mega-modified Tascam 32, seen here playing a master tape to a CD (still unreleased) I mastered a few months ago:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/Tascam32JH.jpg

Fostex E-16, 16 track 1/2" deck, modified to run at 15 or (shown running at) 30 ips:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/16T.jpg

In front of it is a 16 in, 1 out foldback monitor mixer I built for use with it.

Roberts 770X:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/770XX.jpg

My four-headed monster, the Ampex 354:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/ampexnab.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/354amp.jpg

Inside the amp:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/354top.jpg

Head stack shot:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/ampexheads.jpg

The first recorder I ever saw in my life....my dad's Webster-Chicago Model 80-1 wire recorder, vintage circa 1948:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Perisphere-photo/WC80-1.jpg

[Web Police]

Cool looking toys you have there. :)

[Jay Pemberton]

Heh. Thanks!

[vinyldavid]

That's some seriously cool stuff you've got there!

I love the looks of the Ampex and Teac.....

You said that you didn't use the Teac?


And did you still want the NOS Scotch 111?

[Jay Pemberton]

I'd really only use that Teac as a backup. I pull it out now and again to make sure it still works fine. (It does.)

I'd love to have that Scotch 111, but here's the thing....I'm very low on money of late. I was in a car wreck in September 2007, and I still don't have insurance monies from the other driver's company (it was 100% the other driver's fault). I can't work anymore, and I'm sometimes having to sell off microphones and things to pay bills. I don't know what that 111 tape would go for at all.

[vinyldavid]

I'd really only use that Teac as a backup. I pull it out now and again to make sure it still works fine. (It does.)

I'd love to have that Scotch 111, but here's the thing....I'm very low on money of late. I was in a car wreck in September 2007, and I still don't have insurance monies from the other driver's company (it was 100% the other driver's fault). I can't work anymore, and I'm sometimes having to sell off microphones and things to pay bills. I don't know what that 111 tape would go for at all.

SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE WRECK!!!!

Hell, I don't know what it would go for at all, either!

I found it in a basement :D

I'm not lookin for much money, I just want these to go to someone that could have a good use for them, and I can assume that the 111 is the tape that the 354 was designed to work with....

[Jay Pemberton]

111 was, and is, one of them. In my modifications I've managed to get it to also work successfully with most any of the modern tapes--even GP9.

[vinyldavid]

111 was, and is, one of them. In my modifications I've managed to get it to also work successfully with most any of the modern tapes--even GP9.

WOW. That's some serious tweaking.

If you ever want to sell the Teac, I'd definitely be interested :D.

Like I said, it complements PERFECTLY my A-3340S, and I need a 3 3/4ips deck badly......(got some transfers to do of tapes from the fifties, and I have no 3 3/4ips deck....repairs of my Teac A-6010 seem impossible to me...)

[Jay Pemberton]

The only actual 'work' I get to do now is the occasional recording session in a studio in a back room of a local church. I own all the recording equipment in there, but work is so sporadic....hence I was forced to work at places like McDonald's to try to pick up the slack.

I was coming home from McD's on 24 September, and an 81 year old driver (there are a LOT of too-old drivers in the Mountain Home area) pulled out in front of me, leaving me nowhere to swerve. Killed him within minutes, his wife a month later, totalled his Buick and my old minivan, and broke my right kneecap. I had to pay bills from the compensation for the totalled van, and have had to get rides from friends to go anywhere ever since.

Fortunately, other than my wonky knee, I can still do recording and the electronics stuff. I'd love to get where I could refurbish select reel to reel tape machines and certain mixers (like the Tascam 30 for a living, and I'd love nothing more than to get into mastering for records. That's always been my dream gig, and has been since I was 8 if not earlier.

[Jay Pemberton]

WOW. That's some serious tweaking.

If you ever want to sell the Teac, I'd definitely be interested :D.

Like I said, it complements PERFECTLY my A-3340S, and I need a 3 3/4ips deck badly......(got some transfers to do of tapes from the fifties, and I have no 3 3/4ips deck....repairs of my Teac A-6010 seem impossible to me...)

What format are those 3 3/4 ips tapes? Quarter, half or full track? I can transfer them to CD if you need.

All I did to the Ampex to allow the bias levels to be cranked higher is add a small mica capacitor (33 to 36 picofarad) across each of the bias trimmers for each channel. Theoretically simple, but very difficult to get at inside the chassis!

[vinyldavid]

What format are those 3 3/4 ips tapes? Quarter, half or full track? I can transfer them to CD if you need.

All I did to the Ampex to allow the bias levels to be cranked higher is add a small mica capacitor (33 to 36 picofarad) across each of the bias trimmers for each channel. Theoretically simple, but very difficult to get at inside the chassis!

IDK the format.....one's 1 7/8ips.....but I can split that down in Audacity, and the fidelity's so bad that no one will notice lol.

There's about 10 of them, all 7" reels, almost all acetate tapes....

What I tried to do is play them at 7.5ips, and re-do the EQ, but there is so much noise that I decided to do restoration to the sound signal....basically a bunch of EQ's and channels of my Tascam M30 connected together boosting and cutting things......it helped, but if I could get them at 3 3/4, it would ROCK. Also, there's a BAD ground hum that I have to digitally remove....

They are all voice quality, so a lot of processing is not so noticeable....

[Jay Pemberton]

My Akai X-200D has 1 7/8 on it. And notching out hum (and other filtering and EQ) is no problem!

[vinyldavid]

My Akai X-200D has 1 7/8 on it. And notching out hum (and other filtering and EQ) is no problem!

Hmmmm....

I wanted to do this myself....it's part of a massive multimedia project, set to debut next year, and I would love to say that I did them myself......that's why I am so intent on getting a 3 3/4 deck....and I got some other stuff from reels I have found that is at 3 3/4...like the star wars radio plays on Scotch 200 (logging tape)....and live classical concerts from the radio...

[Jay Pemberton]

That's cool....Best of luck, and if you get in a jam, I'm here!

[vinyldavid]

That's cool....Best of luck, and if you get in a jam, I'm here!

Thanks man!

I can do most of the filtering just fine if I can just get a 3 3/4ips deck....