terminology

This reminds me of a time back in about 1979, my mate worked in the
local Hi-Fi/TV shop. I was in visiting, and playing with the stuff
in the shop when a neighbour of mine came in. He was on about music
centres, and how stupid people must be to buy all this expensive
stereo equipment, he'd made his record player stereo by soldering
(he knew all about technical things) another speaker onto the
existing speaker connections, only cost him a few quid. He seemed
pleased with it.
I did that with an old Dansette. It was suppose to be a stereo
unit with external speaker, but I think a valve had gone, so I just
wired the external speaker to the internal one. Pretty pointless
really. That was my first record player. My brother got me it
second hand in the 70's.

I had an Alba (like a Dansette but cheaper). I fitted a stereo
cartridge and fed the two outputs to (a) a Sinclair transistor amp,
and (b) the gram socket of a pre-war radio. The speakers were
Wharfdale 8" co-axial built into concrete pipes. It all worked
splendidly, or so it seemed at the time. I had to run the Sinclair
off an old car battery because I hadn't got a 12V psu.

I got a mention on the Light Programme because of the apeakers. I
walked tall the next day, I can tell you.

Bill

Something I just remembered! I put two 4 track mono reel to reel
machines side by side to make a stereo one. Put tape spool on first
machine, past the heads of both machines (but avoiding the pinch
roller of the first machine) then onto the take up spool of the second
machine. Set one machine to track 1, second machine to track 2. It
sort of worked.

Marky P.

Wasn't there a noticible delay between the left and right channels as the
tape travelled from one set of heads to the other...?
I'd have thought you'd have got an audible 'echo' effect for anything that
was in the middle of the 'sound stage'(??)

Not if you made the recording on the same system. You need a blank
tape, otherwise there would be a delay in blanking each channel due to
the erase heads being so far apart.

Marky P.

You would need to be creative with the scissors when editing it though!

--
Graham

%Profound_observation%

Something I just remembered! I put two 4 track mono reel to reel
machines side by side to make a stereo one. Put tape spool on first
machine, past the heads of both machines (but avoiding the pinch
roller of the first machine) then onto the take up spool of the second
machine. Set one machine to track 1, second machine to track 2. It
sort of worked.

Marky P.

Way back in my mobile disco days I had a Watkins (WEM) Custom
Copycat tape echo machine (foreground)
http://www.ampaholics.org.uk/watkin4.jpg

--
Graham

%Profound_observation%

Graham. wrote:

Way back in my mobile disco days I had a Watkins (WEM) Custom
Copycat tape echo machine (foreground)
http://www.ampaholics.org.uk/watkin4.jpg

Looks a mite more sophisticated than the ones which were simply a
long coil spring in tension inside a box. Just don't hit it ;-)

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
Although I have spent 43 years in CATV, I have never really got
involved
in leaky feeders etc. However, it's a well-established technology, so
I
supposed it does work, and that they have got the bugs sorted out by
now. However, what I said above could be complete rubbish.

It does work quite well to in places like the Mersey and Dartford
tunnels and they relay quite a few signals too!..

I'll direct my noble friend to the following web site location wherein
he may well become more 'learned than what he already is

http://www.aerialfacilities.com/solu...nelsystems.htm
--
Tony Sayer




And for absolute figures look at

http://www.andrew.com/search/BN_10592.aspx


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Odd this group, ain't it.

You start at the top and read down and after a while realise that there
are three entirely different unrelated threads running concurrently.

What makes it all the more interesting is that some people are
contributing to more than one - even all three!

Road map anyone?


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:31:33 -0000, "Graham." wrote:





Something I just remembered! I put two 4 track mono reel to reel
machines side by side to make a stereo one. Put tape spool on first
machine, past the heads of both machines (but avoiding the pinch
roller of the first machine) then onto the take up spool of the second
machine. Set one machine to track 1, second machine to track 2. It
sort of worked.

Marky P.

Way back in my mobile disco days I had a Watkins (WEM) Custom
Copycat tape echo machine (foreground)
http://www.ampaholics.org.uk/watkin4.jpg

My mate (who's a musician) has a copycat tape echo, so I am very
familiar with this machine. Used to make my own tape echo using a
three head cassette deck and an amp with monitor button. Worked on
the same principle as the copycat.

Marky P.

"Bill Wright" writes:

Oh, and when the old ones complain about the Light Programme they usually
mean ITV.

I thought that the 'Light Programme' is Radio 2. Personally I prefer to
listen to the 'Home Service'

"Graham." wrote in message
...




Something I just remembered! I put two 4 track mono reel to reel
machines side by side to make a stereo one. Put tape spool on first
machine, past the heads of both machines (but avoiding the pinch
roller of the first machine) then onto the take up spool of the
second
machine. Set one machine to track 1, second machine to track 2. It
sort of worked.

Marky P.

Way back in my mobile disco days I had a Watkins (WEM) Custom
Copycat tape echo machine (foreground)
http://www.ampaholics.org.uk/watkin4.jpg

Wow - that stirs memories. The guitarist in the band I was in had one of
those - allegedly ex Johnny Kidd & the Pirates.

Martin

"Marky P" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:31:33 -0000, "Graham." wrote:
My mate (who's a musician) has a copycat tape echo, so I am very
familiar with this machine. Used to make my own tape echo using a
three head cassette deck and an amp with monitor button. Worked on
the same principle as the copycat.

What about those tremelo machines with a speaker whizzing round on the end
of an arm, and a mike picking the sound up?

Bill

"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message
rve.co.uk.invalid...
Bill Wright wrote:

"Halmyre" wrote in message
...
What a waste of money. You do know that the higher the aerial, the
further
the electrons have to fall, so they are moving faster when they get to
your
TV and so the signal is stronger, and no need for fancy cable.

But don't forget that electrons are very light, so they don't fall very
fast
anyway.

In fact they can float upwards, carried along by the stream of oxygen in
that cheap wire. No wonder it attenuates so much.

I've always wondered how oxygen free wire worked.

Bill