1st studio

Farrell Jackson · January 09, 2013, 07:33:47 PM

This was my first recorder. It was a 1969 or 1970 portable cassette recorder called an Airline and sold by Montgomery Wards Dept. store which is now defunct. I paid $30 for it which was a big expenditure for me at that time. I sure got my use out of it for years. I still have several old cassette tapes that I recorded on in but the unit is long gone. It even came with an external mic that had an on/off switch to start the recorder..real high tech, lol!

Farrell

kenny mac · January 10, 2013, 12:11:51 AM

Think I should actually clarify that this was the 1st port studio that I owned ,I went through various tape ,machines etc like everyone else ,I then bought a double reel sound on sound off a friend and used that for a while (akai I think)but the one pictured was my 1st real version of a 4 track tape recorder.
It's interesting to see all the different variations in recorders everyone had,we all seem to have been dabbling for a while,I started learning guitar at 18 and then piano at the same time,it just esculated from there.

Greeny · January 10, 2013, 02:01:30 AM

Have to say, I love looking at all this old gear!

maxit · January 10, 2013, 05:27:28 AM

I started in the 80 with fostex x18 too -as Alf, great tool (dinosaur now, but still cool like every piece on this post)! and I could fasten my guitar speed just as simple as turning a little speed wheel LOL (I'll make you listen some hot jazz by slow hand me ;-)

SdC · January 10, 2013, 05:50:06 AM

This thread is making me feel nostalgic in a big way, and giving me Retro-GAS! Looking at the classifieds online, there appear to be a lot of Revox and Teac reel to reel multitrack recorders available for very little money....