*FAQs INFO & UPDATES* • Since making the video *I've added a "High to Low level converter" between the speaker output and the PCM recorder line-in and these new recordings sound much better.* The speaker output isn’t designed to be plugged into a recorder - the impedance is different from a standard RCA connection - hence the ‘thinner’ than optimal sound in some of the video demos. •If you want to learn more about these unique machines visit www.ilove-schaub-lorenz-music-centers.com/ - On here, amongst other things you’ll find information about the 29.7 hour stereo version of the recorder that was made by Schaub Lorenz but wasn’t used in their own cabinets, instead it was sold to GE in the US. •During playback this machine should automatically advance onto the next track after rewinding and continue playing. Because of this feature a number of these were used as background music players in hotels etc. •The track length of 22 minutes is more suited for recording one side of an LP per track. As long as your LPs were of a suitable length it would hold 63. The lack of fast forward makes more sense here as playing a track is just like playing one whole side of a record from the beginning to the end. •Repairs - I won’t be attempting any repairs on the lighting circuit until I get the audio recorded from the machine. I don’t want to risk damaging anything before all the recordings have been archived.
I was just about to comment about that. Pluging power output into recorder or a console is potentialy damaging for the amplifier in most cases. Consider yourself lucky for avoiding an accident. Very enjoyable video otherwise . Cheers.
@Monty Python the Flying Circus Such items must exist as I can recall in the late 90s listening to a fund drive for a public radio station in the US in which one of the rewards for donating was a "VCR for radio" that used compact cassettes so you could set a timer to record programs. Don't know the brand of the device.
After graduating high school in 1965, I worked at a local 500-watt AM radio station. This was before broadcast cart machines were invented, so we had the advertisements ("spots" in radio lingo) and other jingles recorded on a Gates model ST-101 Spot Tape Machine. This unit contained an 11-inch wide tape with 101 tracks each with a running time of 90 seconds. After the commercial or jingle played, you flipped a switch to rewind the tape. The tape had little windows in the oxide layer so a light could shine through the clear tape backing onto a photo cell. If you didn't rewind the tape it would automatically rewind when it got to the end. At the start of the tape was another window that would stop the rewind and re-cue the tape. It had a lever with that locked into notches to select a track. In case the dj forgot what track contained stuff, there was a list posted near the machine with the title of the spot or jingle and the track number. It was quite an ingenious machine. Thanks for the posting, Mat. Dave in California
"Swarf". Somebody knows the black art of grinding. I was a class A grind operator for Rollway Bearing back in the 80's running Heald universal grinders. Lobing, grit marks, burning, chatter, perpendicularity, runout, dog stops, and coolant floods. Ah, the memories.
Dave - What great memories. My first full time radio job was for WJPW 810 in Rockford, Michigan (different calls now and Spanish language station). This was in 1966 the year I graduated from high school. The station was only a year old. Although we had two cart machines, one of them - the record unit - was mounted in a huge cabinet and was disconnected and rolled into the production room when a spot had to be produced. We only owned about 50 cartridges so the majority of the spots wereWe on one of these Gates units. Ours was so poorly maintained it had so much wow and flutter that you couldn't record music on it. So all the spots on it were voice only. And if you had two spots on it that had to run back-to-back you had to reach up and manually rewind as soon as the first spot was done and ab lib for about 30 seconds until it was rewound. It produced a loud "clunk" sound when it was ready to go again. I did a lot of long, drawn out weather forecasts on a busy afternoon when we had a heavy spot load. The station was owned by a guy that ran a bunch of jukeboxes in the Grand Rapids area. The two turntables in the studio were little 7" turntables taken out of old jukeboxes with huge Gray tonearms added! If you were playing an LP you had 3 1/2" hanging over the edge of the turntable so you had to have a large weight centered on your record. We had a couple 3" industrial nuts for this. It was a great learning experience and it lead to over 50 years in commercial broadcasting, from unrated to top 10 markets. Spent years in Washington, DC, Houston, Salt Lake and Las Vegas. In all that time I never ran into anyone else that was familiar with that Gares machine. Max
@@maxwolfe9699 Thanks for sharing your experience. KMSL 1260 AM was in Ukiah, CA. We had 2 Gates (I forget the model number) turntables with (if memory serves) Pickering cartridges. The spot tape machine sat at a 45-degree angle to the "board" (Gates "The Yard"). You always tried to rewind the tape machine when the mike was dead as the machine made a loud whirring sound when rewinding. There was also a cloud "clunk" when the machine stopped rewind and re-cued itself. These sounds were audible on a hot mike. The control room also had a Berlant Concertone reel to reel tape deck. It took up to 10.5" NAB reels. We got some Sunday religious programing on tape, but most on 14" transcription disk. There would be 2 sermons on each side of the disk, so each disk was 4 Sundays of programming. Unfortunately, the owner went bankrupt and sold the equipment for pennies on the dollar. I tried to get on another local station, but didn't. I tried some stations in towns not far from home and failed. I gave up broadcasting and have always regretted it. It was fun work!
Many thanks - I've spent the last 20 years repairing and restoring these beasts, so if you get stuck let me know!! I also have masses of spares for them.... I'm a Tefifon restorer as well, and this is well up to your usual high standard of videos!! All the best, Bryan
You are much appreciated Bryan I'm just trying to out as plug in this but two wires without any colour indicator I font want to blow it up it was working great last time it was tested
There's probably some movie studio that'd be intrested in buying something like that for use in films. (obviously the rights to the music would probably be separate)
Agreed. That's pure archive.org fuel. Huge fan of their work (and Techmoan). I use them because they can reformat material for everyone in one shot (scanned pdf converted to PDF w/text, spoken word for the blind, ebooks, kindle - boom - from one single uploaded doc)
@@StevenOBrien Me too... All I can say is copyright sucks sometimes... Especially when the creative minds involved can't even benefit from it any more, because they've passed on... I would have LOVED being able to hear all of this in one, two or three runs...
I'm glad I could still see this, because in 1974 I repaired such a radio, the amplifier was broken and the mechanism had to be completely lubricated. I found the sound very good and the reception was very sensitive, you didn't need a large antenna. I got a nice price for that at the sale.
So it's well-designed consumer music product with limited access to the interior and a simple interface based on concentric circles. Yup, it's a sixties iPod.
4 inch tape!!! Thanks so much. This is something I would have bought on close-out. In a year or so I won't believe I ever saw this incredible machine. The idea that everything but the illumination works is a testimony to the engineering and manufacture.
Yes, I guess the advertising about "you do need to know about what's inside" was actually the marketing version of "you would be ***ing scared to death if you knew what the **** was going on in there!".
When I was a young fella a mate and I were tired of how long it took to rewind cassettes so we rigged up a 12v wiper motor from a car to rewind the tapes. It went alarmingly fast, and we wrecked a few tapes with that dizzy monster, that's for sure.
@@aterack833 Heh. I worked a film projectionist for 12 years. I have quite a few stories about projector take-up belts breaking and the resulting pile-up of 35mm film. If you were in the room and saw it let go it was an easy enough problem to sort out on the fly, but if you were somewhere else in the building (which was likely in a multiplex type situation) then you were destined to return to an enormous pile of film on the floor, and that's if you were lucky. Some projector models had a dogleg turn at the bottom roller before going on to the spool so if the take-up failed it would quickly pile up in the soundhead and get horrendously torn up by the still rotating sprockets. Usually your first indication of that problem was the sound going dead. Front of house would buzz you and say "there's no sound in Cinema 4" and you'd go "Oh SHIT" and run like buggery to the corresponding projector. 2000 feet of film folded and jammed into an area about 6 inches square was not fun to sort out afterward. Ah, the memories. LOL.
What a gem! To have that history recorded in such a way. I bet they never thought they would become an "Audio time capsule"! And thanks for sharing this remarkable and unusual piece of audio history.
The report on the Belgian Grand Prix is really cool. It's interesting to imagine the excitement surrounding an unfamiliar (to me) event more than 40 years ago. Unfortunately, I learned that the winner, Gunnar Nilsson, passed away the next year. Also, James Hunt ended up in seventh.
This could be one of your most amazing archaeological finds to date. Fascinating presentation cost analysis ,Target end-user ,price comparison of Technology of the time
I would immediately start capping all the radio recordings from this and putting them onto the internet archive. We all need MORE cuddly Ken in our lives. Excellent video.
Man, what a treat. iPod with clickwheel is exactly what I thought of right away also. From 46 hours on your sideboard to 1000 songs in your pocket. That open back shot of the rewind is almost scary!
As a 45 year old woman who is a huge radio collector in fan what an amazing piece the historical recordings on that are just incredible I hope they had him here in the USA I doubt it but that is amazing it's gold it's historical gold the recordings alone
@Jurassic Coast Comics LGR mainly focuses on retrocomputing. He has a series called 'Oddware' where he reviews products that are "odd, forgotten, and obsolete."
I have a Shaub Lorenz portable radio that I bought at a car boot sale many years ago because I was into old radios at the time. It looked quite similar to the one in the image at the 2:00 mins point in this video. The sound quality was very good - rich with a surprising amount of bass weight. Unfortuanately, it no longer works and electronic repair shops are practically non-existent these days.
@@Stefan- Why C90 then and not C100? Over 20 odd minutes and the quality, dynamic range and volume degrades. That's why 12 inch 45s excel due to being good in these respects.
@@victorvalium9099 I honestly dont know what you are getting at, C90 would be great if the album is less than 45 minutes (one album on each side). C100 and even up to C180 has existed but were not as common i believe.
You never cease to amaze me with the recording formats and consumer electronics you come up with! Bravo on another amazing piece of lost history, those audio tracks should be put up for people to hear the bits and pieces of radio history. Thank you for showing us your wild collection!
Definitely one of the most interesting items you've reviewed to date. Complex, innovative, well built, reliable, but unfortunately a bit of a dead end considering the way the market was going in the 1960s. That it is still working well half a century later is testimony to the quality and engineering that went into building it.
it is amazing that the rubber drives and belts are as intact (as seen on the video) since almost every bit of my rubber parts has given up the ghost or turned to gummy sludge...
This is by far, the most interesting item you ever reviewed (and you have reviewed some really great stuff by you over the years). Those recordings are a treasure and they are priceless. I wish I could hear all of it without any restrictions. Now I understand from watching various videos that the BBC is looking for old material that they "WIPED" (or never recorded). As you probably are well aware, the BBC has uncovered previously thought "WIPED" TV (and radio) broadcasts from collectors and various other sources. Do consider, if you want. Making copies at your leisure and then donating some or all of the BBC stuff to the BBC (but keep the originals for yourself). Again, thank you for showing this and this is your best and most interesting item so far. Thanks from the U.S.
WOW, a real time capsule, there may be some very rare recordings that exist nowhere else on a tape like that! Thanks for the interesting videos, I am learning so much, a history lesson never taught in school!
@27:22 LOL! That's brilliant Mat. Almost spit out my coffee when I saw that. I'm a HUGE Motorsports fan and hearing the results to the 1977 Belgian GP (our recently passed legend Niki Lauda came second and went on to win the world championship that year) was pretty cool if you ask me. Like you were saying about the music chart listings being fascinating, I agree. Little slice of history on tape, very cool. Thanks for this as always Mat. You do great work! 👍
As a linguist I think it's brilliant to hear British radio announcers and DJs from the past and observe the way the Conservative RP of Lord Reith's BBC gave way to the accents you can hear on the radio today.
That Kenny Everett recording could be the only one in existence. Amazing! I love your videos, really interesting. By the way, I still have a working Akai 4000DS reel to reel!
That 22 minute length is so weird. I really wish we knew why they chose it. Such a cool device. I was blown away seeing the 4" wide tape. Thanks for another great video.
I discovered ur Channel only recently but have been watching ur "documentaries" going back years catching up. As a Music enthusiast since early childhood becoming a very successful musician & originally a top Radio DJ in the mid 80's I typically remember most of the forgotten technology U feature. This Hi-Fi system however I've never heard of but like many forgotten technologies was a great idea but flawed. The 22min tape length was absolutely the fatal flaw here that would have been so easily resolved later in the design process or even later model. The 2nd flaw tho much less noticeable in this particular case would be reusable tape that eventually gets worn out. When I worked in Radio in the 1980's contrary to MY preference (always seeking the highest audio quality) many Radio stations were transferring records over to tape called "carts" like an 8-trk holding just 1 song & same with the commercials. They unfortunately reused the "carts" over & over endlessly day after day wearing them out & greatly reducing the sound quality. The early answering machines of the 1970's & early 80's also used a permanent spool of tape which also wore out. As we know that was the flaw of 8-trks which wore out 4x faster than cassettes which also didn't fare well long term especially on the cheap pre-recorded Type 1 normal bias tapes whose sound quality was poor to begin with anyway compared to record albums.
@@maxwelsh6121: Nikolas Lloyd, known on RUclips as *Lindybeige* due do his iconic beige shirts with the rounded off collars, rose to prominence for his "Rants" videos... e.g. how torches in movies are clean burning and illuminate a room... the impracticality of fire arrows. He also has a number of videos on historical topics... Why British officers don't duck... anecdotes on the Cromwell tank... how Hannibal defeated the Roman army. Definitely visit the *Lindybeige* channel if you haven't already done so.
@@maxwelsh6121: I forgot to mention... there is a place where you can play paintball... in a tank! Yes, a driveable tank that shoots paintballs, and it's one of the places Lloyd kindly uploaded a video about. Here's the link... ruclips.net/video/hk8jsxdgAXo/видео.html
@@maxwelsh6121: Thank you, that does sound like something that interests me. I will take a look. Those channels are *Shadiversity* and *Laird's Lair* ?
@@Christopher-N Back in my youth, I once help marshal a paintball grudge match between the sales teams of Kimberly Clarke and Scott bathroom tissue. Did you know that pistol whipping occurred during paint ball?
That Seychelles coup can be dated to June 1977, so between that and the Kenny Everett recordings, whoever had this machine originally used it for quite some time. Add me to the list of people really hoping to hear all of the unique treasures on these recordings someday!
That was fascinating seeing that huge tape working inside, never realized how many contenders the compact cassette had before it took the lead as an audio standard.
You could probably build one from old casette recorders 30 min left and right so 1 hour total in mono recordings, a switch to choose the tape to record to / play from and you could use one large staff to connect all the tapes together. Youd just need multiple tape heads.
Simply *brilliant.* Never stop. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us, and thank you especially for capturing that priceless, lost-to-the-world-until-now audio.
That has to be one of the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on your channel, and you regularly blow my mind with cool things all the time. Well done. I gotta find one of those.
This was a very interesting video. It's amazing how much these beautiful pieces of engineering can tell us about ourselves. Honestly my favorite part was at the end hearing about Gunnar Nilssons famous Zolder Grand Prix win.
WOW this is a fantastic find for your collection. From the device too the recordings on it top stuff for any audiophile . Best of luck your channel is awesome.
3" and 4" 'Large Format" width tape was used on a few multi-track recorders in studios between the 1970s to late 1980s before being superseded by wide format PCM digital multi-track format. The 3" and 4" width multi-track tape was considerably more expensive than the 1/4", 1/2", 1" and 2" tapes. This would push up production costs still further so 72 guineas was a steal.
Amazing. If it had inputs for a turntable, you could've recorded all of your LPs to each track. Hundreds of LPs in one small box, and somewhat "portable". Pretty ingenious for its time.
@@zipzip8239 that is still a lot of albums, 88 albums on their own could possibly take up even more space than this machine including the player. Also, im guessing that that was more records than the normal person would have then.
It's still a tape, just a really wide one. Just because all the tapes we normally think of as such tend to be narrow doesn't mean we need to rename the same type of thing that happens to be out of the ordinary. It's a nice attempt, though. If you want another alternative name, ribbon would fit, too.
Benjamin Middaugh, If you look at the Etymology of the word “Tape”, it has its roots in a word that could mean ribbon. But I suppose that morphologically (referring the the field of mathematics), a tape and a scroll are the same thing. Although, now that I think about morphology, in relation to tapes, I can't help but imagine a magnetically encoded tape in the shape of a morpheus strip. Gives a new definition to “single sided tape”.
I'm 60 seconds in and I immediately want to get my hands on one!! Unlikely to do so, no doubt. Ohhh this is the same Lorenz of the "Lorenz cipher"!! Even more fascinating!
I love when techmoan does videos on tape formats. Because I personally think that magnetic tape is one of the most interesting type of formats. Mainly because it went in so many directions. Like reel to reel, or this thing he showcases in the video, are cartridges. It seems like every tape format had its own story, and style, and that’s why it’s so interesting.
Any '90s SMD electrolytics are terrible for leaking, the digital-era equivalent to Hunt's waxies (or Sprague Black Beauties/Elmenco short-o-matics, if you're American) but there's no saying those Valvo's aren't leaky in the electrical sense, lossy, shorted or wide open. That could be the reason for the lighting issue although I doubt it. And at least they have a chance at being functional/formed-up as they still have their innards where they were supposed to be.
What an amazing find! I had no idea such things existed even. To connect to the speaker output you need a DI (Direct Inject) box, which will convert either speaker, line or instrument to balanced mic level and let you record onto a SSR with a mic input. The tinnyness is due to impedance mismatch and trying to use the bottom of the volume controls as well no doubt. Top stuff though!
We seem to be going backwards with that feature. Sony made a number of |MP3 players with that feature but dropped it. Pure made two radios (Bug and Evoke 3) that had a full EPG to allow you to set up recordings to the SD card (SDHC isn't supported as it hadn't been invented at the time of release) but haven't made anything as good since.
this is a bit tangetial of a comment, but, I absolutely adore what you are doing on RUclips...thank so much for revisiting so many older technologies...i was class of 1986 and took 3 years of electronics classes...and so many ive never seen. its nice of you to play electronic archivist. thanks!
Nilsson entered 32 Formula One Grand Prix races, qualifying for all of them. He won the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder while driving for Team Lotus.
Hearing the comment about Ronnie Peterson's six wheeled Tyrrell in third was interesting. You know it drove in races and was a good car for a time, but hearing it reach the podium really sends the fact home.
Digital media are more prone to passive degradation, but can be copied & stored for basically zero cost, and with perfect fidelity. As long as they are moved from server to server, they will still be around. Codecs & formats can probably be reverse-engineered, if the software or specs are lost.
Though, because of low cost, they are also more abundant and thus less valuable, so the average effort put into conserving will be lower. And the equipment to play them back is less likely to make it through a hypothetical civilizational collapse, so they don't radiate that time-capsule charm as well. ^^
@@maxwelsh6121 Standard DVD-R is, as you say, very prone to disc rot. I was referring to 'M-Disc DVD-R' and 'M-Disc BD-R'. Pressed CDs, DVDs and laserdiscs will not last forever, light, heat, and moisture can degrade the reflective layer. The issue with vinyl is that playing the record wears it away. Now admittedly the wear is gradual and very slight but it is there. You can buy (hugely expensive) laser record players which I believe overcome that problem.
No way man. If anything, digital recordings have far more longevity than old tapes. Digital copies are made instantly and shared with anyone who wants them across the world. Something that would have been a one off recording 40 years ago is now duplicated hundreds of times over by different people, stored in different ways. There are many digital archivists out there, saving those bits for the future.
Only chanced on your channel today and I am already totally hooked on what you have done. Brilliant stuff. Oddly enough, I was around in the 1960s (Born in 1948) but I don't recall EVER seeing this machine, or hearing about it, before today. Fascinating.
What an amazing machine. That machine is my era and yet I had no idea it even existed. Many thanks for the blast from the past. Dear Kenny. Miss him still.
I have to say, of all the devices I've seen on youtube, this is up there with the Tefifon, it's just such a fascinating concept, not to mention an audio time machine with all the recordings still on that mahoosive tape, it's amazing, well worth preserving... :D
I know this is an old video, but you should look into the WEGA devices from Germany. I picked up a WEGA 3203 FET a few years ago and it has a radio, amplifier and a built in Dual 1215 record player. The type of Dual record player changes throughout the years and they're pretty much drop in units, so you could source a better model and just swap it for that. The one I have is pretty much mint aside from the cigarette burn and nicotine I had to clean out (not recommended). Really beautiful machines that do serve a design purpose in my opinion. My place is filled with old German analog machines that I pick up from our classifieds or flea markets. It's amazing to see what Germany has.
That audio from the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix is just priceless!!! So many names from legendary drivers such as Hunt, Lauda, Scheckter, Andretti... What a nice channel this is btw
Anyone who's ever heard this type of vintage gear in all it's glory would agree with you I'm sure. It's got an 8 inch coaxial/point source designed alnico speaker with a quality transistor amplifier from the days when they were voiced warm and smooth. And remember Lorenz was a serious HiFi company, and made some top notch speakers back in the day, as they were competing with Telefunken and Grundig. And their quality control was as excellent as their designs were. I bet it sounds amazing. And how good would it look in a mid century modern furnished living room? Can you imagine? 😲 😁
Damn... I used to listen to Kenny Everett as a kid on Capital Radio 194 when I lived over there as a kid. I’ll never forget the “Worlds Worst Wireless Show”.
Learn something new every day!! Back when 8-tracks were the thing, roads and highways in New Jersey USA had their curblines covered with 1/4 inch tape. When an 8-track messed up and broke, becoming useless, people threw them out their car windows. Once the case was broken it was streamers of tape for 10's of feet!!
Thank you Mat! I’ve been binging on this channel for weeks now, and love the flashback to my childhood in the ‘80s... My Grandfather was a Broadcaster in Los Angeles, CA from the 50’s to 80’s on a Classical station (KFAC-92.3MHz) and I grew up with a lot of similar technology because he loved it. Cheers mate! Keep the content coming!
*FAQs INFO & UPDATES*
• Since making the video *I've added a "High to Low level converter" between the speaker output and the PCM recorder line-in and these new recordings sound much better.* The speaker output isn’t designed to be plugged into a recorder - the impedance is different from a standard RCA connection - hence the ‘thinner’ than optimal sound in some of the video demos.
•If you want to learn more about these unique machines visit www.ilove-schaub-lorenz-music-centers.com/ - On here, amongst other things you’ll find information about the 29.7 hour stereo version of the recorder that was made by Schaub Lorenz but wasn’t used in their own cabinets, instead it was sold to GE in the US.
•During playback this machine should automatically advance onto the next track after rewinding and continue playing. Because of this feature a number of these were used as background music players in hotels etc.
•The track length of 22 minutes is more suited for recording one side of an LP per track. As long as your LPs were of a suitable length it would hold 63. The lack of fast forward makes more sense here as playing a track is just like playing one whole side of a record from the beginning to the end.
•Repairs - I won’t be attempting any repairs on the lighting circuit until I get the audio recorded from the machine. I don’t want to risk damaging anything before all the recordings have been archived.
They must be very reliable, the troubleshooting page has no entries.
If you put the recordings on archive.org - please post a link in the description because that's a treasure trove you've got there.
I was just about to comment about that. Pluging power output into recorder or a console is potentialy damaging for the amplifier in most cases. Consider yourself lucky for avoiding an accident.
Very enjoyable video otherwise . Cheers.
you need to pin this!
@Monty Python the Flying Circus Such items must exist as I can recall in the late 90s listening to a fund drive for a public radio station in the US in which one of the rewards for donating was a "VCR for radio" that used compact cassettes so you could set a timer to record programs. Don't know the brand of the device.
After graduating high school in 1965, I worked at a local 500-watt AM radio station. This was before broadcast cart machines were invented, so we had the advertisements ("spots" in radio lingo) and other jingles recorded on a Gates model ST-101 Spot Tape Machine. This unit contained an 11-inch wide tape with 101 tracks each with a running time of 90 seconds. After the commercial or jingle played, you flipped a switch to rewind the tape. The tape had little windows in the oxide layer so a light could shine through the clear tape backing onto a photo cell. If you didn't rewind the tape it would automatically rewind when it got to the end. At the start of the tape was another window that would stop the rewind and re-cue the tape. It had a lever with that locked into notches to select a track. In case the dj forgot what track contained stuff, there was a list posted near the machine with the title of the spot or jingle and the track number. It was quite an ingenious machine.
Thanks for the posting, Mat.
Dave in California
"Swarf". Somebody knows the black art of grinding. I was a class A grind operator for Rollway Bearing back in the 80's running Heald universal grinders. Lobing, grit marks, burning, chatter, perpendicularity, runout, dog stops, and coolant floods. Ah, the memories.
Fidelipac was invented in 1959...
Indeed..one of these www.radioyears.com/wpla/photo_details.cfm?photo=1357 They say 12 inch tape, but who's counting.
Dave - What great memories. My first full time radio job was for WJPW 810 in Rockford, Michigan (different calls now and Spanish language station). This was in 1966 the year I graduated from high school. The station was only a year old. Although we had two cart machines, one of them - the record unit - was mounted in a huge cabinet and was disconnected and rolled into the production room when a spot had to be produced. We only owned about 50 cartridges so the majority of the spots wereWe on one of these Gates units. Ours was so poorly maintained it had so much wow and flutter that you couldn't record music on it. So all the spots on it were voice only. And if you had two spots on it that had to run back-to-back you had to reach up and manually rewind as soon as the first spot was done and ab lib for about 30 seconds until it was rewound. It produced a loud "clunk" sound when it was ready to go again. I did a lot of long, drawn out weather forecasts on a busy afternoon when we had a heavy spot load.
The station was owned by a guy that ran a bunch of jukeboxes in the Grand Rapids area. The two turntables in the studio were little 7" turntables taken out of old jukeboxes with huge Gray tonearms added! If you were playing an LP you had 3 1/2" hanging over the edge of the turntable so you had to have a large weight centered on your record. We had a couple 3" industrial nuts for this.
It was a great learning experience and it lead to over 50 years in commercial broadcasting, from unrated to top 10 markets. Spent years in Washington, DC, Houston, Salt Lake and Las Vegas. In all that time I never ran into anyone else that was familiar with that Gares machine.
Max
@@maxwolfe9699 Thanks for sharing your experience. KMSL 1260 AM was in Ukiah, CA. We had 2 Gates (I forget the model number) turntables with (if memory serves) Pickering cartridges. The spot tape machine sat at a 45-degree angle to the "board" (Gates "The Yard"). You always tried to rewind the tape machine when the mike was dead as the machine made a loud whirring sound when rewinding. There was also a cloud "clunk" when the machine stopped rewind and re-cued itself. These sounds were audible on a hot mike. The control room also had a Berlant Concertone reel to reel tape deck. It took up to 10.5" NAB reels. We got some Sunday religious programing on tape, but most on 14" transcription disk. There would be 2 sermons on each side of the disk, so each disk was 4 Sundays of programming.
Unfortunately, the owner went bankrupt and sold the equipment for pennies on the dollar. I tried to get on another local station, but didn't. I tried some stations in towns not far from home and failed. I gave up broadcasting and have always regretted it. It was fun work!
Many thanks - I've spent the last 20 years repairing and restoring these beasts, so if you get stuck let me know!! I also have masses of spares for them.... I'm a Tefifon restorer as well, and this is well up to your usual high standard of videos!! All the best,
Bryan
i think its best you send techmoan a well worded email, if you havent already
I think it’s great that there’s people (you) out there still working and repairing these machines.
You are much appreciated Bryan I'm just trying to out as plug in this but two wires without any colour indicator I font want to blow it up it was working great last time it was tested
Those Kenny Everett recordings are SUPER rare! Don't lose them! All his tapes were lost!
Lost? Most probably intently destroyed/recorded-over each time Kenny was sacked!
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@@MrWombatty Yes, but fired or not, the BBC would have recorded over them anyway. Tape was expensive, and was reused constantly. Many shows were lost.
@@PoisonedAl we should get all the home recordings of Kenny Everett and create an archive.
Kenny Everett was amazing :)
Man over 40 hours of radio from the late 60's through the 70's is priceless!
yea your not kiddin
I wish there was a way to get hold of all the recordings he's done. Do you know if he's selling DVD/Blu-ray's with all these audio recordings?
@@4TheRecord That would probably be illegal without a LOT of correspondence. I don't know how long before that recording becomes public domain.
There's probably some movie studio that'd be intrested in buying something like that for use in films. (obviously the rights to the music would probably be separate)
That's a wacky machine! Real blast from the past literally
Incredible that the tape has lasted that long. Watching it rewind actually scared me a little. Nice demonstration.
That's amazing!
You should put the whole of the contents on the internet archive!
Agreed. That's pure archive.org fuel. Huge fan of their work (and Techmoan). I use them because they can reformat material for everyone in one shot (scanned pdf converted to PDF w/text, spoken word for the blind, ebooks, kindle - boom - from one single uploaded doc)
Paging Jason Scott....
I want to hear all of it too, but he probably can't because of copyright. :(
@@StevenOBrien Me too... All I can say is copyright sucks sometimes... Especially when the creative minds involved can't even benefit from it any more, because they've passed on... I would have LOVED being able to hear all of this in one, two or three runs...
Agreed. @techmoan please upload all this old radio content to the Internet Archive for everyone to enjoy. Fab video as always!
You're like RUclips's cool uncle, thank you for existing.
Amen
I'm glad I could still see this, because in 1974 I repaired such a radio, the amplifier was broken and the mechanism had to be completely lubricated. I found the sound very good and the reception was very sensitive, you didn't need a large antenna. I got a nice price for that at the sale.
Hearing the actual radio broadcast from the '77 Belgian Grand Prix was really amazing. Thank you.
Two Swedish drivers on the podium. I wonder how many times that happened.
The driver of the second Tyrell, was the getaway driver for The Great Train Robbery, Bruce something of other. I'm not good at names.
Wow...i'm ancient and into HiFI but i've never seen or heard of this machine. What a fabulous peice of equipment.
It is a thing of beauty indeed. Need a bigger house though.
That speaker inside look so modern, amazing.
tarstarkusz well todays people only want base. And good prices. Today’s people are stupid. And that comes from a 17 year old
WOW thats amazing, i would love to listen to the radio of the past.
ruclips.net/video/B324wjx91lg/видео.html i think you will enjoy this!!
There are some full broadcasts on archive.org. Most from the 80's and later but the 60's an 70's also have a pretty big selection.
im sure iv listened to some on Spotify too but i couldn't find them when i just quickly looked.
Imagine needing to buy a second machine because you ran out of space.
Imagine buying a second machine because you wanted stereo. A synchronization mechanism wouldn't have been too difficult, I don't think.
@@danieldaniels7571 Well, that's par for the course. Indeed, the less sanity one has, the lesser the cost after the attempt. ;-)
So it's well-designed consumer music product with limited access to the interior and a simple interface based on concentric circles. Yup, it's a sixties iPod.
"well designed"
Soviet Russia It’s well designed. They both are. Not necessarily the most reliable, but well designed
oh my pkcell (dankpods)
I didn't know I was going to watch 31 minutes of video about a weird 1970s radio but I did. Your videos are always fascinating.
He pulls you in every time!
@@vannjunkin8041 i second that every time 😄😄
Techmoan can.
Wow I thought you were joking. It really is 31 minutes. It felt like 10 minutes.
wait this was 30mins long, I didn't notice. it was just so fascinating
4 inch tape!!! Thanks so much. This is something I would have bought on close-out. In a year or so I won't believe I ever saw this incredible machine. The idea that everything but the illumination works is a testimony to the engineering and manufacture.
This really would be worthy of the Antiques Roadshow. Far more interesting than an old vase or similar.
That F1 report was timely considering the tributes to Lauda at this weekends Austrian GP.
@@lucasrem Verstappen is Dutch. 🇳🇱🏁
@@butters_147 Dutch, and a star to be!
@@tomtalk24 already a star! Kid is special, no doubt about it. Only a matter of time before he's World Champion.
@@butters_147 Defo! Once the money boys are out of the way he'll be on podium in every race.
Wow, the 4" tape! And that rewind was TERRIFYING! Great find!
Yes, I guess the advertising about "you do need to know about what's inside" was actually the marketing version of "you would be ***ing scared to death if you knew what the **** was going on in there!".
Frank Olson Twins glad it isn’t trying to rope feed the reel, imagine if the feed motor keeps going but the take up motor fails?
When I was a young fella a mate and I were tired of how long it took to rewind cassettes so we rigged up a 12v wiper motor from a car to rewind the tapes. It went alarmingly fast, and we wrecked a few tapes with that dizzy monster, that's for sure.
@@aterack833 Heh. I worked a film projectionist for 12 years. I have quite a few stories about projector take-up belts breaking and the resulting pile-up of 35mm film. If you were in the room and saw it let go it was an easy enough problem to sort out on the fly, but if you were somewhere else in the building (which was likely in a multiplex type situation) then you were destined to return to an enormous pile of film on the floor, and that's if you were lucky. Some projector models had a dogleg turn at the bottom roller before going on to the spool so if the take-up failed it would quickly pile up in the soundhead and get horrendously torn up by the still rotating sprockets. Usually your first indication of that problem was the sound going dead. Front of house would buzz you and say "there's no sound in Cinema 4" and you'd go "Oh SHIT" and run like buggery to the corresponding projector. 2000 feet of film folded and jammed into an area about 6 inches square was not fun to sort out afterward. Ah, the memories. LOL.
Didn't think it was gonna stop speeding up lmaooo
What a gem! To have that history recorded in such a way. I bet they never thought they would become an "Audio time capsule"!
And thanks for sharing this remarkable and unusual piece of audio history.
The report on the Belgian Grand Prix is really cool. It's interesting to imagine the excitement surrounding an unfamiliar (to me) event more than 40 years ago. Unfortunately, I learned that the winner, Gunnar Nilsson, passed away the next year. Also, James Hunt ended up in seventh.
This could be one of your most amazing archaeological finds to date. Fascinating presentation cost analysis ,Target end-user ,price comparison of Technology of the time
I would immediately start capping all the radio recordings from this and putting them onto the internet archive. We all need MORE cuddly Ken in our lives. Excellent video.
Man, what a treat. iPod with clickwheel is exactly what I thought of right away also. From 46 hours on your sideboard to 1000 songs in your pocket. That open back shot of the rewind is almost scary!
Amazing find, and video! I got a kick out of your "original iPod" clickbait thumbnail. Always enjoyable. Thanks!
As a 45 year old woman who is a huge radio collector in fan what an amazing piece the historical recordings on that are just incredible I hope they had him here in the USA I doubt it but that is amazing it's gold it's historical gold the recordings alone
So it's a tape with 22 minutes of audio over 126 channels. Now that's oddware.
LGR?
@Jurassic Coast Comics LGR mainly focuses on retrocomputing. He has a series called 'Oddware' where he reviews products that are "odd, forgotten, and obsolete."
He even said it, this box is just out there. :}
Odd and interesting
LGR didn't invent the term 'oddware'. 'Ware' refers to software/hardware.
I was fully expecting this review to be about a modern retro looking device that contained a hard drive full of MP3s. This is quite something.
Amazing audio time capsule - cool video - thanks Techmoan - always original and as comprehensive as possible.
I have a Shaub Lorenz portable radio that I bought at a car boot sale many years ago because I was into old radios at the time. It looked quite similar to the one in the image at the 2:00 mins point in this video. The sound quality was very good - rich with a surprising amount of bass weight. Unfortuanately, it no longer works and electronic repair shops are practically non-existent these days.
You posted this three years ago, and it is just as relevant and fascinating today. Absolutely fun to watch it. Thank you again for posting it.
Another brilliant piece of quality equipment made to last. Thanks for educating us about such beautiful hifi equipments from the past !
22 mins was aimed at one side of an LP at the time. Remember C45 cassettes?
Most vinyls, although I've got a few playing up to 25 minutes.
@@mikeos1 I think that time was more rare back in the 60s and 70s. I remember most of my punk albums would fit fine on a C45
@@victorvalium9099 Yeah many classic pop/rock albums were 30-40 minutes back in the day.
@@Stefan- Why C90 then and not C100? Over 20 odd minutes and the quality, dynamic range and volume degrades. That's why 12 inch 45s excel due to being good in these respects.
@@victorvalium9099 I honestly dont know what you are getting at, C90 would be great if the album is less than 45 minutes (one album on each side). C100 and even up to C180 has existed but were not as common i believe.
This device belongs in a design museum- I really love the look of it.
You never cease to amaze me with the recording formats and consumer electronics you come up with! Bravo on another amazing piece of lost history, those audio tracks should be put up for people to hear the bits and pieces of radio history.
Thank you for showing us your wild collection!
Definitely one of the most interesting items you've reviewed to date. Complex, innovative, well built, reliable, but unfortunately a bit of a dead end considering the way the market was going in the 1960s. That it is still working well half a century later is testimony to the quality and engineering that went into building it.
it is amazing that the rubber drives and belts are as intact (as seen on the video) since almost every bit of my rubber parts has given up the ghost or turned to gummy sludge...
Millennial Techmoan scares me! I'm glad we have the Techmoan we have now - never change, Matt!
This is by far, the most interesting item you ever reviewed (and you have reviewed some really great stuff by you over the years). Those recordings are a treasure and they are priceless. I wish I could hear all of it without any restrictions. Now I understand from watching various videos that the BBC is looking for old material that they "WIPED" (or never recorded). As you probably are well aware, the BBC has uncovered previously thought "WIPED" TV (and radio) broadcasts from collectors and various other sources. Do consider, if you want. Making copies at your leisure and then donating some or all of the BBC stuff to the BBC (but keep the originals for yourself). Again, thank you for showing this and this is your best and most interesting item so far. Thanks from the U.S.
Some of these would be nice!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lost_BBC_episodes
Of all your videos and devices, this one fascinates me the most.
WOW, a real time capsule, there may be some very rare recordings that exist nowhere else on a tape like that! Thanks for the interesting videos, I am learning so much, a history lesson never taught in school!
@27:22 LOL! That's brilliant Mat. Almost spit out my coffee when I saw that.
I'm a HUGE Motorsports fan and hearing the results to the 1977 Belgian GP (our recently passed legend Niki Lauda came second and went on to win the world championship that year) was pretty cool if you ask me. Like you were saying about the music chart listings being fascinating, I agree. Little slice of history on tape, very cool.
Thanks for this as always Mat. You do great work! 👍
As a linguist I think it's brilliant to hear British radio announcers and DJs from the past and observe the way the Conservative RP of Lord Reith's BBC gave way to the accents you can hear on the radio today.
That Kenny Everett recording could be the only one in existence. Amazing! I love your videos, really interesting. By the way, I still have a working Akai 4000DS reel to reel!
What an amazing bit of kit. Currently binge watching all of your videos - as a child of the 70s there are more than a few memories being brought back.
That 22 minute length is so weird. I really wish we knew why they chose it.
Such a cool device. I was blown away seeing the 4" wide tape. Thanks for another great video.
25:52 the tune in the background is Mike Oldfield - Guilty.
That F1 coverage was so breathtaking. A true time capsule from the 70s.
Wow, that recording of the results of the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix ! Excellent ! Unforgettable for the year, with the 6-wheeled Tyrell !
I discovered ur Channel only recently but have been watching ur "documentaries" going back years catching up. As a Music enthusiast since early childhood becoming a very successful musician & originally a top Radio DJ in the mid 80's I typically remember most of the forgotten technology U feature. This Hi-Fi system however I've never heard of but like many forgotten technologies was a great idea but flawed. The 22min tape length was absolutely the fatal flaw here that would have been so easily resolved later in the design process or even later model. The 2nd flaw tho much less noticeable in this particular case would be reusable tape that eventually gets worn out. When I worked in Radio in the 1980's contrary to MY preference (always seeking the highest audio quality) many Radio stations were transferring records over to tape called "carts" like an 8-trk holding just 1 song & same with the commercials. They unfortunately reused the "carts" over & over endlessly day after day wearing them out & greatly reducing the sound quality. The early answering machines of the 1970's & early 80's also used a permanent spool of tape which also wore out. As we know that was the flaw of 8-trks which wore out 4x faster than cassettes which also didn't fare well long term especially on the cheap pre-recorded Type 1 normal bias tapes whose sound quality was poor to begin with anyway compared to record albums.
(4:46) You mean, it comes in either *Lindybeige,* or *LGR* wood grain.
Christopher Noel a truly exceptional comment I commend you
@@maxwelsh6121: Nikolas Lloyd, known on RUclips as *Lindybeige* due do his iconic beige shirts with the rounded off collars, rose to prominence for his "Rants" videos... e.g. how torches in movies are clean burning and illuminate a room... the impracticality of fire arrows. He also has a number of videos on historical topics... Why British officers don't duck... anecdotes on the Cromwell tank... how Hannibal defeated the Roman army. Definitely visit the *Lindybeige* channel if you haven't already done so.
@@maxwelsh6121: I forgot to mention... there is a place where you can play paintball... in a tank! Yes, a driveable tank that shoots paintballs, and it's one of the places Lloyd kindly uploaded a video about. Here's the link... ruclips.net/video/hk8jsxdgAXo/видео.html
@@maxwelsh6121: Thank you, that does sound like something that interests me. I will take a look. Those channels are *Shadiversity* and *Laird's Lair* ?
@@Christopher-N Back in my youth, I once help marshal a paintball grudge match between the sales teams of Kimberly Clarke and Scott bathroom tissue. Did you know that pistol whipping occurred during paint ball?
That Seychelles coup can be dated to June 1977, so between that and the Kenny Everett recordings, whoever had this machine originally used it for quite some time.
Add me to the list of people really hoping to hear all of the unique treasures on these recordings someday!
It's quite an impressive machine. 63 LPs playing automatically is a library you couldn't really surpass until the iPod.
That was fascinating seeing that huge tape working inside, never realized how many contenders the compact cassette had before it took the lead as an audio standard.
one of the best channels on RUclips, by far
TA
You could probably build one from old casette recorders
30 min left and right so 1 hour total in mono recordings, a switch to choose the tape to record to / play from and you could use one large staff to connect all the tapes together. Youd just need multiple tape heads.
Simply *brilliant.* Never stop.
Thank you for taking the time to share it with us, and thank you especially for capturing that priceless, lost-to-the-world-until-now audio.
That thing has beautiful styling, very 60s Mad Men aesthetic.
I'm always amazed when you present a video of a new audio or video format that you have found.
Best tubechannel ever, so much hard work and so well produced, like pro!
That has to be one of the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on your channel, and you regularly blow my mind with cool things all the time.
Well done.
I gotta find one of those.
19:10 "I think Lemmy would approve" He certainly would Mat! - RIP Lemmy, You will be forever missed!
This was a very interesting video. It's amazing how much these beautiful pieces of engineering can tell us about ourselves. Honestly my favorite part was at the end hearing about Gunnar Nilssons famous Zolder Grand Prix win.
WOW this is a fantastic find for your collection. From the device too the recordings on it top stuff for any audiophile . Best of luck your channel is awesome.
I imagine there's collectors, or someone into radio history that would pay a large sum for one of those with radio recordings from the 70s.
3" and 4" 'Large Format" width tape was used on a few multi-track recorders in studios between the 1970s to late 1980s before being superseded by wide format PCM digital multi-track format. The 3" and 4" width multi-track tape was considerably more expensive than the 1/4", 1/2", 1" and 2" tapes. This would push up production costs still further so 72 guineas was a steal.
Amazing. If it had inputs for a turntable, you could've recorded all of your LPs to each track. Hundreds of LPs in one small box, and somewhat "portable". Pretty ingenious for its time.
It does on the back “record player”
it would only be 88 albums at the very most since it recorded 44 hrs.
@@zipzip8239 that is still a lot of albums, 88 albums on their own could possibly take up even more space than this machine including the player. Also, im guessing that that was more records than the normal person would have then.
imagine trying to find the song you wanted 46,000 songs
You know… With the so called “tape” being as wide as it is, I think it needs a different name… How about: Audio Scroll?
It's still a tape, just a really wide one. Just because all the tapes we normally think of as such tend to be narrow doesn't mean we need to rename the same type of thing that happens to be out of the ordinary. It's a nice attempt, though. If you want another alternative name, ribbon would fit, too.
Benjamin Middaugh,
If you look at the Etymology of the word “Tape”, it has its roots in a word that could mean ribbon. But I suppose that morphologically (referring the the field of mathematics), a tape and a scroll are the same thing.
Although, now that I think about morphology, in relation to tapes, I can't help but imagine a magnetically encoded tape in the shape of a morpheus strip. Gives a new definition to “single sided tape”.
@@World_Theory Magnetoband. So much a better name
How about calling it "If it breaks, you're screwed!" lol
I immediately thought of the old Edison Cylinder records.
BTW, I'd love to get one of those adapters that was attached to it.
Reminds me of when my brother-in-law bought a 200 disc CD player!
I have on of those, it's made by Sony
There is also a 400-Disc-Model i think.
Just saw one at salvation army for $20
Would love a pic please.
@@jackmcsween1334 its big black box inside in vertical position you can put 200 disks and then arm picks cd up and plays
I'm 60 seconds in and I immediately want to get my hands on one!! Unlikely to do so, no doubt.
Ohhh this is the same Lorenz of the "Lorenz cipher"!! Even more fascinating!
I used to own such a device. But only the recoder/player. Loved it.
great to hear Kenny Everett, a genius of the radio
I love when techmoan does videos on tape formats. Because I personally think that magnetic tape is one of the most interesting type of formats. Mainly because it went in so many directions. Like reel to reel, or this thing he showcases in the video, are cartridges. It seems like every tape format had its own story, and style, and that’s why it’s so interesting.
@ 18:42 you can clearly see that Valvo capacitors rule...over 50 years old and still not leaked! Wish my Sega GameGear could say the same!
Sega GameGear caps are the worst of the worst !
Any '90s SMD electrolytics are terrible for leaking, the digital-era equivalent to Hunt's waxies (or Sprague Black Beauties/Elmenco short-o-matics, if you're American) but there's no saying those Valvo's aren't leaky in the electrical sense, lossy, shorted or wide open. That could be the reason for the lighting issue although I doubt it. And at least they have a chance at being functional/formed-up as they still have their innards where they were supposed to be.
Yeah...how low could we go?
I love this video Mat. Great videos as I've been watching your channel for years. Keep up the great work Kieran from Blackpool.
One of the most mind boggling bits of old tech you’ve shown, given the implications of when it was produced and what it could record.
What an amazing find! I had no idea such things existed even. To connect to the speaker output you need a DI (Direct Inject) box, which will convert either speaker, line or instrument to balanced mic level and let you record onto a SSR with a mic input. The tinnyness is due to impedance mismatch and trying to use the bottom of the volume controls as well no doubt. Top stuff though!
Unremarkable exterior? It's quite beautiful, really.
I would agree in that I love the look of old electronics, but it has the fairly standard look of a mid to late 60s HiFi component
It's more like like a 1960s Tivo than an i-pod. I-pods never let you record live radio.
We seem to be going backwards with that feature. Sony made a number of |MP3 players with that feature but dropped it. Pure made two radios (Bug and Evoke 3) that had a full EPG to allow you to set up recordings to the SD card (SDHC isn't supported as it hadn't been invented at the time of release) but haven't made anything as good since.
this is a bit tangetial of a comment, but, I absolutely adore what you are doing on RUclips...thank so much for revisiting so many older technologies...i was class of 1986 and took 3 years of electronics classes...and so many ive never seen. its nice of you to play electronic archivist.
thanks!
OMG, the stranglers at 0:52!!! I am happily stunned. You sir, ARE a hero.
RIP Niki Lauda. That was a fun time capsule to listen to.
Nilsson entered 32 Formula One Grand Prix races, qualifying for all of them. He won the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder while driving for Team Lotus.
Do we know already who finished no. 6?
Yes, it was great to listen to it. If you grew up,on the time F1 races were on the radio since TV was very expensive. Brought back memories
Hearing the comment about Ronnie Peterson's six wheeled Tyrrell in third was interesting. You know it drove in races and was a good car for a time, but hearing it reach the podium really sends the fact home.
@@PhilipvanderMatten Strietzel Stuck. Hunt finished 7th.
Thanks for this - a great find and makes fascinating viewing! One of my favourites from you sir!
20:50 a terrifying rewind captured on video. But more terrifying is that everything we record digitally will be more likely lost 50 years from now.
Digital media are more prone to passive degradation, but can be copied & stored for basically zero cost, and with perfect fidelity. As long as they are moved from server to server, they will still be around. Codecs & formats can probably be reverse-engineered, if the software or specs are lost.
Though, because of low cost, they are also more abundant and thus less valuable, so the average effort put into conserving will be lower. And the equipment to play them back is less likely to make it through a hypothetical civilizational collapse, so they don't radiate that time-capsule charm as well. ^^
M-Disc BD-R or DVD-R is your friend. Not cheap but will last several lifetimes, they are rated for 1,000 years.
@@maxwelsh6121 Standard DVD-R is, as you say, very prone to disc rot. I was referring to 'M-Disc DVD-R' and 'M-Disc BD-R'. Pressed CDs, DVDs and laserdiscs will not last forever, light, heat, and moisture can degrade the reflective layer. The issue with vinyl is that playing the record wears it away. Now admittedly the wear is gradual and very slight but it is there. You can buy (hugely expensive) laser record players which I believe overcome that problem.
No way man. If anything, digital recordings have far more longevity than old tapes. Digital copies are made instantly and shared with anyone who wants them across the world. Something that would have been a one off recording 40 years ago is now duplicated hundreds of times over by different people, stored in different ways. There are many digital archivists out there, saving those bits for the future.
I've only been following this channel for about 6 months or so. I've enjoyed everything so far, but this was truly amazing.
loving the fact it has audio that would have been lost to the past. it always facinates me
Another great find by Techmoan. Terrific video. I never knew such a device ever existed.
I'm sure Techmoan actually invents and builds these things himself! Surely, there are no more formats to be presented ; )
Caution. Low Space: Please Buy another Music center (I love this kind of work that you made. Genius!)
You would overwrite old tracks. Like you do with cassettes.
Only chanced on your channel today and I am already totally hooked on what you have done. Brilliant stuff. Oddly enough, I was around in the 1960s (Born in 1948) but I don't recall EVER seeing this machine, or hearing about it, before today. Fascinating.
What an amazing machine. That machine is my era and yet I had no idea it even existed. Many thanks for the blast from the past. Dear Kenny. Miss him still.
I have to say, of all the devices I've seen on youtube, this is up there with the Tefifon, it's just such a fascinating concept, not to mention an audio time machine with all the recordings still on that mahoosive tape, it's amazing, well worth preserving... :D
This is just superb. I love it a lot I don't know how many have survived but they are all clearly treasures.
Kenny Everett! Thats great to have! Any chance of you uploading that somewhere?
I’m all for that, along with the V2000 TV footage finds!
I know this is an old video, but you should look into the WEGA devices from Germany. I picked up a WEGA 3203 FET a few years ago and it has a radio, amplifier and a built in Dual 1215 record player. The type of Dual record player changes throughout the years and they're pretty much drop in units, so you could source a better model and just swap it for that. The one I have is pretty much mint aside from the cigarette burn and nicotine I had to clean out (not recommended). Really beautiful machines that do serve a design purpose in my opinion. My place is filled with old German analog machines that I pick up from our classifieds or flea markets. It's amazing to see what Germany has.
That audio from the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix is just priceless!!! So many names from legendary drivers such as Hunt, Lauda, Scheckter, Andretti...
What a nice channel this is btw
I want this thing .. it’s still relevant. Imagine having The Beatles mono collection in all its glory stored inside that!
The Beatles mono box set has something to say about that !
Anyone who's ever heard this type of vintage gear in all it's glory would agree with you I'm sure. It's got an 8 inch coaxial/point source designed alnico speaker with a quality transistor amplifier from the days when they were voiced warm and smooth. And remember Lorenz was a serious HiFi company, and made some top notch speakers back in the day, as they were competing with Telefunken and Grundig. And their quality control was as excellent as their designs were. I bet it sounds amazing. And how good would it look in a mid century modern furnished living room? Can you imagine? 😲 😁
Damn... I used to listen to Kenny Everett as a kid on Capital Radio 194 when I lived over there as a kid.
I’ll never forget the “Worlds Worst Wireless Show”.
tom paisley Captain Kremen 😁
Learn something new every day!! Back when 8-tracks were the thing, roads and highways in New Jersey USA had their curblines covered with 1/4 inch tape. When an 8-track messed up and broke, becoming useless, people threw them out their car windows. Once the case was broken it was streamers of tape for 10's of feet!!
Gee, I'd forgotten about that. They did it with cassettes, too.
HOLY CRAP, this is one of the coolest ones yet on this channel!! WOW its like time traveling!
Thank you Mat!
I’ve been binging on this channel for weeks now, and love the flashback to my childhood in the ‘80s...
My Grandfather was a Broadcaster in Los Angeles, CA from the 50’s to 80’s on a Classical station (KFAC-92.3MHz) and I grew up with a lot of similar technology because he loved it.
Cheers mate! Keep the content coming!