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This is a fully tube operated unit, and the sound quality is second to none. It happens to have a mix of vintage tubes, including some Telefunken 12AT7's in the preamps(from my personal stash).
The format is 1/4" half track ,7.5 ips.
This rtr recording was made using direct guitars and bass.
The machine pictured above is a Roberts 192 Ft (which stands for Full Track), 1/4" tape machine. Like many of the Akai/Roberts tape recorders of the 1960's, this was modeled after the Ampex 600/601 portable recorder.
Though the Akai/Roberts units were popular, they never achieved the reputation as broadcast standard recorders that the Ampex units did. This model was intended to change that!
The roberts recorder was fitted with full track (mono) erase, record, and playback heads. Though running at 7.5ips, the fidelity is great.
However, Ampex was committed to quality and through the 50's and 60's, nothing about their tape machines was budget quality. This changed many year later as they produced consumer format tape machines, but they still offered studio and high end consumer tape recorders in a variety of formats.
Here is one such high end consumer machine, made by the Ampex Professional division!
I love, collect, and use vintage tape recorders...
UPDATE: Here's a record I made with analog tape as well as some vintage and modern gear, including a stereo tape recorder...Click Below to check it out!
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Here's a great sounding multitrack recorder:
