| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: What is it?
by Hooper | 03/23/01 at 05:48:24
I just got a copy of the TAPE OP book and on the cover is a picture of a really strange-looking piece of old recording gear. It looks like a reel-to-real with a Briggs and Straton engine mounted on top of it. Anybody know what that is?
Subject: Re: What is it?
by ds | 03/23/01 at 11:35:55
I have that book right here next to me! :)
But I don't know what that thing is either. I see it's some sort of Nagra recorder on the bottom. Those are typically used for recording on film locations aren't they?
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Tedster | 04/02/01 at 23:24:29
It's a device for henpecked recording engineers...they can record and mow their lawn at the same time...
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Hooper | 04/03/01 at 05:00:09
So, is that how they recorded 'Papa Hum Mow Mow' ?
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Percy | 04/03/01 at 05:36:37
What the hell you guys talkin about??
Percy
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Hooper | 04/03/01 at 13:46:22
Here's a picture of the thing on the cover of this book, Tape OP:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0922915601/o/qid=986326883/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/107-2425549-6246122
I was just asking if anybody knows what it is?
Looks like a piece of vintage equipment...
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Steve_S. | 04/03/01 at 14:29:40
[size=2].....maybe it's for video and audio with a video viewer in the back..... ???[/size]
Subject: Re: What is it?
by JR#97 | 04/03/01 at 15:07:35
it looks like my answering machine;)
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Jim | 04/04/01 at 20:23:34
The aliens left it behind at their camp on Easter Island while they were here building the Pyramids in Egypt and South America when it was discovered man entered the industrial revolution and the vision of the recording industry was birthed and thus the degradation of society. A clever plan by those aliens to eliminate the human race all the while going undetected as recording engineers and record company execs!
If you don't buy that then....
I guess you could e-mail Larry Crane or someone through the Tape OP website at http://tapeop.com and ask them.
;D
Subject: Re: What is it?
by JR#97 | 04/05/01 at 11:09:00
[quote author=Jim link=board=music1&num=985351705&start=0#8 date=04/04/01 at 20:23:34]
The aliens left it behind at their camp on Easter Island while they were here building the Pyramids in Egypt and South America
I edited a video about Easter Island, Giza Pyramids, Ancor Wat, and South America.... spooooooky stuff..... they're all tied together via their positions on the Earth and their alignment with the constalations to a certain point in time. Totally irrelevent to anything on this thread or board for that matter... but who's gonna stop me!!:P
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Slider | 04/05/01 at 22:24:32
From the head engineer here at the studio I work at, the word is that they are both nagras. The bottom is obviously, and the other is just old school, using wire instead of tape. But I guess Tape Op put them together as some sort of hybrid nagra monster. Looks cool though!!
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Hooper | 04/06/01 at 07:23:35
I went over to the Tape OP site yesterday morning and posted the question on their message board but still haven't had a response. I searched Nagra IV-S (the label on the bottom machine) on Google and found a little info on it but no mention of it ever being lashed to another machine (Webcore Squire) as in the picture. Looking at the picture on the book cover the machine on top is loaded with tape, not wire. It's not really practical that the two tapes could be synced because tape stretches, right?
Now I'm wondering if the pic is a spoof ???
I'll let you know if I find out anything over at the Tape OP site.
Subject: Re: What is it?
by pcrecord | 04/06/01 at 14:07:06
If it is to be the next gadget on the market, it's certainly a good digital recorder with an old tape delay and it can also make capucino ! ;D
just kidding !!
Subject: Re: What is it?
by BananaHead | 04/09/01 at 01:22:47
It's a Nagra. That's some pretty serious stuff. Those things are like Jesus to some people. It's scary. Known for bigtime detail and precision. It's probably one (two) of their digital tape recorders (ya I know there are reels, but it's digital). Probably expensive as all hell also. $10-20,000? :o
Subject: Re: What is it?
by Hooper | 04/09/01 at 04:55:20
Okay, but I'm wondering why it has two sets of reels on the same machine?