[BC] Another little story.

[gRAdy Moates]

    Ah, yes --  The Ampex PR-10. . . 

http://reel2reeltexas.com/vinAd66Rec1.jpg
   (picture in upper-right-hand corner)

. . . had only one motor, which drove the capstan and both 
reel spindles with belts.  Unusual, in that it used "eddy 
current clutches" to drive the reels, using the same kind 
of science as the faraday disc in a standard Watt-Hour 
meter such as is hanging on the outside wall of most 
buildings today.  

    I had one, also, and used it to record my rock band 
performing "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" in a 10-by-40 
house trailer back in 1969: 

http://loudandclean.com/titans/loveisab.m3u

    That's me singing lead and playing organ.  We bounced 
back and forth from track to track about 4 times to get 
all that sound in there.  I really miss it. . . 

Phil Parr reminisced:

> When I first started in radio, 1963, their was a Gates store 
> in Houston. . . 
>
> . . .I decided to buy an Ampex recorder I think it was called 
> a PR-10. Anyway, it was two tracks and far above anything I 
> ever had before. . . 
>
> . . . I did at least 1000 miles of production with that Ampex.