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05-21-2010, 11:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | Score! - Someone was going to throw this away.
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My friend's father was going to toss this to the curb but I rescued it. 
It's a wire recorder. Sort of a precursor to the tape recorder. Many of these were used during WWII for keeping records in the field and while flying aircraft. They were only made for a few years and were kind of troublesome to use.
I got two reels of wire with it and hope to be able to play them and see if there is anything on them. The guy who was throwing this away said he's had it for decades and has no idea who had it before him or what might be recorded on the reels. I'm currently talking to some people who know how these things work to get it into proper working order before I try to play it. It does power up, though and seems to work OK mechanically.
Cool old stuff. 
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05-21-2010, 11:06 AM
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The guts: 
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05-21-2010, 11:08 AM
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Info: 
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05-21-2010, 11:10 AM
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05-21-2010, 11:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | Someone in amps is probably preparing a post right now about how that sounds better than a LM2! 
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05-21-2010, 11:15 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Looks pretty sweet. I bet you could figure out a way to get some really old vintage tones on that. Record some vocals in that thing. Mic the playback and get it into a DAW with your other tracks. That would sound sweet. I could use something like this with my dub stuff. |
05-21-2010, 11:15 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | The guys from American Pickers will give you $50 for it.
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05-21-2010, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat  ...The guy who was throwing this away said he's had it for decades and has no idea who had it before him or what might be recorded on the reels. | Contents of reels:
1. Transcript of alien autopsy at Roswell, New Mexico
2. Confession of CIA-sponsored 2nd gunman in Kennedy assassination
3. Beatles demo recording featuring Pete Best |
05-21-2010, 11:58 AM
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05-21-2010, 01:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Latimour Someone in amps is probably preparing a post right now about how that sounds better than a LM2! |
LOL.
I can't wait to hear its "warm" and "tubey" sound. 
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05-21-2010, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Looks pretty sweet. I bet you could figure out a way to get some really old vintage tones on that. Record some vocals in that thing. Mic the playback and get it into a DAW with your other tracks. That would sound sweet. I could use something like this with my dub stuff. |
I like the way you think. 
Assuming I can get this thing fired up and working, I'll have to give this a try.
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05-21-2010, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 The guys from American Pickers will give you $50 for it.
-Mike |
Cha-ching!  Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Nazium Contents of reels:
1. Transcript of alien autopsy at Roswell, New Mexico
2. Confession of CIA-sponsored 2nd gunman in Kennedy assassination
3. Beatles demo recording featuring Pete Best |
I think any of these possibilities should make it worth a little bit more than $50.
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05-21-2010, 01:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | That IS cool. I remember and episode of Mission Impossible where someone was carrying a wire with, probably spy information on it  |
05-21-2010, 03:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Nazium 3. Beatles demo recording featuring Pete Best | Right before his "Best of the Beatles" album.
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05-21-2010, 04:33 PM
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05-21-2010, 04:40 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Awesome! And it's got tubes... |
05-21-2010, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | How do you record onto a wire? 
It looks very cool! |
05-21-2010, 09:12 PM
| | | | Is this where "we just got a wire" comes from? I always thought it was in reference to Morse Code.
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05-21-2010, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Gopherbassist Is this where "we just got a wire" comes from? I always thought it was in reference to Morse Code. | I believe it is from Morse code.
And as to how it works, f****** magnets, but how do THOSE work? |
05-22-2010, 12:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Jersey | | Very cool find!
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Originally Posted by KeithBMI How do you record onto a wire? | Works essentially the same as with magnetic tape, which uses iron oxide (carefully manufactured rust) particles instead straight metallic iron or steel. The wire (or tape, as the case may be) is magnetized by the recording head
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