[GreenKeys] Our lunch time vocabulary

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2023, Richard Knoppow wrote:

> Well, of course the most famous is Les Paul and Mary Ford who recorded 
> all their hits on a single track Ampex (maybe a 350) with the head 
> positions changed, play first, then erase, then record. Les said in an 
> interview at Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters, that Mary did not like 
> working with a multi track machine so he stuck with the single track. Of 
> course, one mistake and he had to start over.

Play, erase, record...  Err, what would that do?  It's been a while since 
I've seen a "real" tape recorder (pun intended).  I'm guessing that some 
residual recording is still present?

> BTW, the reason for the 350 model number is that the first machine was a 
> model 200 (so people would not know it was their very first), that was 
> followed by the Model 400, a much smaller machine that was the first to 
> record up to 15KHz at 7.5 IPS, however, the 400 used a pusher type tape 
> drive, making is nearly impossible to edit on, so it was discontinued 
> and followed by the 350, half way between the 200 and 400.

Same reason that you never start serial numbers at "1" :-)

-- Dave VK2KFU