[BC] Nostalgia...

[Mark Croom]

My first experience with an open-reel recorder that didn't come from Radio Shack was one of the green Wollensak machines. Looked very much like the one in the photo. I was maybe 13 years old. My pastor had one to run the sound track for his missionary slide show from years gone by. He let me borrow it when I ran across it in his closet when I was over at his home helping with something or other.

'twas great fun for a budding audio geek like myself.

Did my first layered recording with that thing and my portable cassette machine, singing along until I had all four parts of a quartet song I liked. Sounded crappy but left me with a very satisfied feeling that I had figured out a way to get it done. I had no idea what the inside of a recording studio was like or about multi-track boards, tape decks, punch-in, etc etc.

Mark
MN

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:58 PM, <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:
>When I started in Broadcasting, this was in vogue for everything except for the Maggie in the main studio.

>http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/wollen_01_1.jpg

>Cheers,
>Richard B. Johnson
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