The Record Player Tape Machine From The 1950s

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[@leathandrubb]

I GREW UP WITH THESE AND HAVE 2 OF THEM.THEY ARE MADE TO RUN AT 7 /2 IPS AT A TURNTABLE SPEED OF 78 RPM.THE PREAMP USES A 9 VOLT BATTERY THAT LASTS 600 HOURS. WATCH THIS PLEASE. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpuoiHSBZ6aGZpo

[@chesterwhut1006]

Techmoan has entered the chat.

[@tcdahn7]

That was my first thought.

[@dillipphunbar7924]

@@tcdahn7 i think you'll find that that was MY first thought

[@donkimble]

@@dillipphunbar7924 I think you'll find I thought it after I read it first.

[@tree_relics]

I thought of something a few times, but wasn't sure about it's authenticity, so... Yeah.

[@Reliquancy]

This thing’s like the fossils with feathers that weren’t really dinosaurs anymore or birds yet lol

[@reggiep75]

Hainbach can smell this from a distance, his heart feels love for it.... He wants to become this items daddy!

[@offcenterprofilepicture6274]

sus

[@Pandangus]

Ew

[@rookmaster7502]

For sure. The wobbly, hiss-saturated sound generated by this unusual 1950's tape recording gadget is right up Hainbach's alley.

[@iNerdier]

33 & 1/3 speed is, best speed?

[@tay_piss_saucer_mk.400]

This has two meanings

[@retrofraction]

I swear he says “I want donuts and bananas” when he is singing

[@pick_nark]

That was a tasty jam there at the end. I feel like this thing should be in a museum somewhere.

[@onreality5583]

(18:26-19:12) A cathartic, transcendent and most excellent.start to 2021! Big up the magpie and all passers by :)

[@RemyRAD]

I was trained by all of the famous studio tape recorder manufacturers. And became the Quality Control Manager for one of the most famous by the name of Scully. And so I'm really into tape recorders. As you might imagine. This is absolutely a fabulous device! If I had seen it in the past? It's when I was a child and didn't know what I was looking at. This is fabulous! And I realized something here very important.. This like a professional recorder. It is driven by a capstan and pinch roller. Powered by the spindle of the turntable. With your choice of speeds of 3.75 IPS. When the turntable is set to 33 1/3. 7.5 IPS when the turntable is set to 45 RPM. And the studio speed of 15 IPS when the turntable is set to 78 RPM. And so in theory. With the circumference of the capstan based upon the rotations per minute of the turntable platter. Provided for a stable and standardized, tape recorder speeds of that era. Of the early 1950s. Still the same speeds used today. I actually considered a more modern version of this. At the turn of the new millennium into 2000. It would have been a box you would have added.. To an existing analog tape recorder. It would in turn digitize the incoming audio. Into a lower bit rate, MP3,, digital audio datastream. This in turn. Would have been able to modify an analog tape recorder. Into a reel to reel, real-time,, MP3, digital audio recorder. From an analog recorder. To update an older machine from the 50s-60s-70s. Into a usable digital recorder from an analog recorder. Without modifying the analog recorder. By simply plugging in a box. Because remember. Early home computers. That did not have hard drives yet. Backed up all of their digital data. Onto an inexpensive, child's, portable, battery-operated, toy, cassette recorder. To backup your data. Using FSK or Frequency Shift Keying. With a recorder running at 1.78 IPS. But you can record a lot more data. At higher bit rates and greater frequency response capabilities. If the tape is being pulled at 7.5 IPS or 15 IPS. In a similar manner of data encryption converted to an analog signal. And then played back in the same manner. It's amazing. That some old person must of had this in their attic. And when they died. It was discovered.. Having sat there since the 1950s. That's an amazing find! That it was not relegated to a landfill decades ago. A true piece of unique recording history! I sure wish I had one. I have a much better turntable. It's DC servo controlled and driven. And my recordings could sound just as crappy only better. I do love the funny permanent magnet, erasing head. That's very cute and funny. That adds so much noise to the tape it's criminal. But many of us have those. Especially when I was seven years old and purchased my first $20 3 inch reels to reel, portable recorder when I was 7 years old. And it had a permanent magnet erase head thingy. And the noise was wholly objectionable. But I believe this thing could actually make it reasonable recording. By using a slightly different technique. This technique. Requires one to get a large electromagnet. That we commonly referred to as a bulk tape eraser. And you put the reel on it and spend it with your fingers a couple of times. And when you take it off slowly.. As you continue to rotate the reel with your hands. It will do a very clean erase job.. Then! You would thread your tape. As if you were going to play back something. By not putting it over the permanent magnet erasing device that will induce a terrible amount of noise. And instead. You just record over this completely clean tape. And you could probably get a reasonably good recording without the extra noise added by the permanent magnet erasing thingy head. But without the bulk tape eraser. You wouldn't be able to do that and would have to rely upon that permanent magnet that induces all that noise. Unless you are using clean fresh tape that has never been recorded upon on a single pass. Of say, a recording of your 95-year-old grandmother's birthday. Where the quality would not be crucial. In its fidelity. I didn't particularly love the plastic finger controlled rewinding device. What? They never bothered to figure out. All you had to do was flip the reels. Not threading it past the heads. Just turn the turntable on. And you would have automatic rewind. Then you switch the reels back again. And you're ready to record. Without hurting your index finger from the plastic gizmo. After rewinding 1200 feet of tape! Who would want to do that to their finger??? It's fine if you just want to back it up a few sentences or one minute. Not good if you wanted to back it up one half hour. It'll take your figure 15 minutes to do that. And then you will be dripping blood all over the tape. So that didn't make any sense without making it fur lined first. So at least it would feel good around your finger and would tickle. It could also effectively be used on a clitoris also. And then it would have dual purpose. You could screw a tape. Or you could screw it around your girlfriends clitoris. Where your love life could spin out of control. Faster honey faster! Make it go faster! I'm screwing as fast as I can honey! Oh... Oh I think we are reaching Nirvana. After Black Sabbath. Keep screwing! We are almost there! Don't stop! Don't stop. Till I get enough.. Of that Funky stuff. Yeah baby! So you have to learn how to use this equipment properly! They didn't include all of the directions. This is what actual engineers like me, understand. It's not only a tape recorder. It's also a sample loop playback device. The first one of its kind! And a marriage saver. This was pure genius! It's both a recorder and a sexual aid device in one! That was a visionary inventor if there ever was one. And there wasn't. Because they never sold and that the adult bookstores. They didn't have the proper marketing tactics. This is why you need a PR firm and an advertising agency. Along with some proper technical research. To truly discover the value of this device. That would allow you to make recordings. And improve your marriage at the same time! It was plainly an active genius and desperation. Because he didn't introduce it until after his wife divorced him. For making love to the machine more than her. It's always like that. Alexander Graham Bell ended up talking to himself on the phone. Tommy Edison recited Mary had a Little Lamb to himself. For dinner or for sex? And Nikola Tesla was into Bondage & Discharge. All of these guys obviously had some kind of sexual kink to themselves. You could tell they wanted to get off on what they were doing. And they were relentless. They were suffering from CID. Compulsive Inventive Disorder. And all to just get a charge out of what they were doing. Because their batteries had gone flat. And limp. I talked to my computer now. Because it's the only person that'll listen to me. And is a great secretary. Because it writes down everything I say. I can even place it in my lap. Atop my lap. I once made a tape recorder run backwards. When the reels should just have been going around in circles. I think I scared it? The best thing about a tape recorder. It makes it easy to erase your past. RemyRAD

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Hello! Maybe you could join my discord server (link in description) and reach out in a direct message to me there? Cause this is really something. Maybe even do a follow up conversation type video about all this? :) I also think I have a email linked in description but disced is easier. Just say I asked you to join and people will guide you to me, haha.

[@Stgpop]

14:51 THIS TUNE IS OUTSTANDING I LOVE IT!! It gives me what feels like a sense of nostalgia, some weird game and its soundtrack from a time I no longer remember

[@illustriouschin]

Hainbach and Techmoan should fight to the death for this! 🤓⚔️👴

[@illustriouschin]

Also great track at the end. You played the hell out of that thing!

[@jodymcdougle8810]

Yay! Happy New Year! Starting off 2021 with a new video from Magpie! The kids & I wish you and your family the very best! Here's to another year of music, love, and laughter. 🦄🎛🎹🎼💓👾🌌

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Right back at you 😁😁

[@tonyzl6]

Bought a Gramdeck from Merryfield in London in 1961 and brought it back to New Zealand. A great innovation which I used for recording reception of overseas radio stations.

[@thehorriblebright]

I'm alway awestruck by how easily you seem to cook up great melodies. Your music is nowhere near what I usually listen to but if I was into this type of dreamy lofi pop stuff, you'd probably be one of my favourite artists.

[@tonyzl6]

Bought a Gramdeck from Andrew Merryfield Ltd when in London 1961. A great recorder on which I used to capture overseas radio station reception from New Zealand.

[@efin3019]

this is so cool I love the interesting and weird stuff you find to make music out of and its always so good. keep up the amazing creativity this new year!

[@paulriggs42]

I love this jam …. What a cool machine and great innovation in the way you used it…. Mic into echo pedal is simply awesome

[@danielpirone8028]

King Tubby would be proud!

[@BITRATE_MODE]

Still today this is probably one of my fav works from you.

[@U014B]

Finally! A way to get decent sound from a Crosley machine!

[@ninthcrossing]

ily simon, keep doin what u do

[@hendrikboser8238]

Happy 2021

[@dillipphunbar7924]

really interesting episode...liked the jamming.....your tech is evolving.

[@mycosys]

When they say the Lustraphone produces the "finest possible result from the Gramdeck" i get the feeling that was the truest statement on the quality of the deck in the entire brochure lol

[@frogandspanner]

We had one of those when I was a kid. It was some time between 1958 and 1963.

[@NicStage]

In a lot of ways, this is a way better solution for looping tape. Less bulky than a traditional tape machine and everything is out in the open. And it can be driven by anything that spins. Next idea: Hook it up to other spinning things. Tape Bike. Tape Car. etc.

[@nicholasroos3627]

Having separate components to the system makes it a bit of a fuddle though. An old tape machine still sounds like a better option.

[@snuffamericanstyle]

Is the world ready for Tape Blender?

[@stuartchapman5171]

@@nicholasroos3627 trouble is they're expensive breakdown and have obsolete parts. There's an appetite right now for simple serviceable devices. You get less wow and flutter and greater fidelity for sure in dedicated decks, but for experimentation there's this.

[@nicholasroos3627]

​@@stuartchapman5171 I think you confuse ones own appetite with that of others. There is also something not so obsolete about belts and idlers. Even remolding rubber on pinch rollers is being done. Heads are the problem only if working with obscure units such as this one. Otherwise, why wouldn't replacements be available from dead units of yesteryear? People are smart enough to grab them and sell them at a price. Let's not try to let collectors and hoarding hifi reseller types convince us otherwise.

[@seancraig2372]

Looove the jam at the end man, would love to hear some releases sounding like that! Sounded sick. Big fan of the channel too, thank u for the entertainment ❤️

[@gillesnardin445]

what an amazing setup this is nice man! so weird process I love it thanks !!!

[@bob7872]

That is some interesting invention! Reminds me of the 8-track cassette converters.

[@RyanWAFFELYoung]

17:06 when the cough medicine kicks in.

[@jodymcdougle8810]

Simon, @ 12:46, the melody is simply breath taking! Quite beautiful! Thank you for sharing this. 🐦🐦🐦

[@robertseeley545]

Nice video and the shirts in your store look dope

[@localhost4460]

She's got some wow and flutter in her :D (Happy New Year!)

[@JSlackArt]

SICK, I want one! love the tones!!!!

[@CircuitBendingFool]

great product. the music you're making is exceptional! enjoyable video!

[@petereldridge1662]

You don't need to make anything pleasant. You are already the most pleasant thing on the internet.

[@ritofuturito]

This is amazing

[@lonedrone]

This is just insane. I love it!

[@TradieTrev]

You ooze analogue mate! I love your trippy tunes and the way you make them!

[@Spherical_El]

Some 1960s Dr Who sound fx at the end there. Couldn't help think of OP-1 at the beginning with the crank. Nice video Maggie 🐦

[@thestinkyweasel6297]

This is wild and strange and I love it

[@Megabobster]

I can't be the only one who was hoping that it would somehow transmit the audio through the record player's stylus.

[@userAnonymous90123]

Well, I don't want to be mean...

[@FlorissMusic]

my deepest and best thoughts are at the end of your videos when you make/perform some spatial vibey music. i wish i could listen to this stuff on spotify or something

[@thomasbutts1987]

I like that song you made with that tape machiene

[@raceface_m2579]

That’s waaaay cool!

[@MrUnit731]

Really cool gadget!

[@FLH3official]

It's for Hainbach, definitely :-)...

[@Spherical_El]

I actually think it suits Magpie better as its soo ridiculous 🤣🤪🥴

[@relaxerandrew]

some jams remembered me grimes, which is kinda fun

[@flowbius]

That was actualy bretty cool!

[@giuseppeforesta5215]

Simon the wizard !🎤😎👏

[@freedan79]

Tape Machine

[@JulioAvalos3000]

Why doesn't it surprise me that Magpie would just happen to have a crocodile clip laying around?

[@cnonymous]

epic jam

[@shenkgaming6427]

Simon’s straight up vibin’ lol

[@ferrifet7267]

Awesome stuff 👏 I've had one of these for a couple of years, its absolutely brilliant for loops! best thing is they can run at any speed and you have automatic "sound on sound" sadly now everyone else knows about our little secret....

[@ferrifet7267]

Also I think its from 59

[@analogaudiorules1724]

Vinyl and tape sounds better and always will, yeehaw.

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

It's all about that fully realised waveform, baby. 😆

[@SuperPedalhead]

nice one magpie

[@aswarmofdeadinsects]

The microphone does sound like the 50s.

[@woutervanveldhoven]

This is such a great machine :) Would be lovely to use a dc motor (with pwm speed control)

[@BradExample]

ok.... this rules... you always make amazing things...

[@isistoy]

Made me think of old Dreadzone albums for a moment :)

[@tapeexperiments]

Sweet!

[@RegebroRepairs]

The quality is nearly wire recorder level. I wonder if maybe Mr Gramdeck didn't know about tape bias. :-)

[@amuletsmusic]

oh shit...need this

[@Louise____Louise]

Love the tune, sounds very Gorillazy

[@RemyRAD]

Oh! I just also realized. This is the first recorder ever. That was literally design. To be able to do multitrack recording via sound on sound layering. By not looping the tape over the erase magnet. You can record on top of other things that are already on the tape. You just can't hear it while you're doing I don't think? But still.. This would predate Les Paul and Mary Ford maybe? And he could've done that so much more economically with this. That he didn't need an expensive specially built Ampex 8 track of the first kind.. This is truly revolutionary! Sound on sound recordings in the 1950s without spending a fortune. I sure wish the 1950s would come back. I liked life better as an immature child. Because Santa Claus was still alive. RemyRAD PS Not sure if you found him as Santa Claus in your phonebook? He could have been listed as Chris Kriegel or, S. Nick. And was still alive in the 1950s. I saw him kissing mommy under the Christmas tree. And I'm Jewish.

[@mewantgoodmusic]

MAGPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pEGiOnBoI]

Disco elysium vibes in the intro

[@tyler1234321]

Wow I just got a record player and now I want that.

[@ncot_tech]

Oh wow Sweden has the same TV antenna plugs that the UK does.

[@genepozniak]

14:18 OMG! Now I've got "Winchester Cathedral" stuck in my head! lol 16:04 Excellent Grimes imitation! ;-)

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

10:58 - 11:10 - microphone you said? 😉 Nice tune✔️✔️✔️

[@kassemir]

Great video. Though, with that cable, you gotta try and hook up a guitar to an old TV set. I know, probably nothing interesting would happen, but still curious to see :)

[@danielleohallisey4218]

Where does he GET all those wonderful toys?!

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Are you taking on Techmoan now...? 🥸😂

[@Paparumbo]

👍

[@molekulaTV]

Best best best

[@DetroitMicroSound]

is there a valve inside the preamp? 😁 I have a sweet and strong 1962 Mullard ECC83 valve right here. ...btw, beautiful tunage ❤

[@ferrifet7267]

No its transistor based, usually they're broken as well haha

[@DetroitMicroSound]

@@ferrifet7267 wait... transistor based in the 1950's? not possible. the first MOSFET wasn't invented until 59. 😉

[@mycosys]

@@DetroitMicroSound he didnt say FET based, now look up the BJT that it would have used

[@DetroitMicroSound]

@@mycosys I suppose, but I would like to see the guts. 😁😉

[@ferrifet7267]

I have one, it has germanium transistors

[@genepozniak]

...because it's kind of difficult to record from vinyl to tape? IDK 🤔 Pretty darned interesting though. :-)

[@MONZTEHR]

Hey bro, a while ago you made a video where you made music with some people on discord and I loved the song! I couldn’t find it on your account. Did you delete it?

[@mr.univerze4965]

Very gorrillaz like music love your videos and the music

[@draggonhedd]

Opening kinda sounds like a Treewave track

[@handwriting8804]

Oh I thought this was your invention when I saw it on your Instagram

[@Klopizza]

OMG SHOW THIS TO TECHMOAN

[@nrdesign1991]

What is that cute bear in the background? Some sort of keyboard?

[@DerekRNeumann]

The loop reminds me of the cranberries

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

Hainbach AND Techmoan are gonna be jealous. Big time. And think about Sam LMNC and his Museum Of Everything Else... 🧐🤗🤭🤔

[@kabood777]

AHH man yet another object to haunt my dreams, I'm poor, this is not fair...this situation can not last, I think I better leave the virtual world entirely find an ashram or a temple in India or somewhere and go cure my self!

[@justinpietro5853]

when are you gonna auction off those pants?

[@thomasbutts1987]

Hai

[@evanstj5]

You are a really cool geezer, mate. But I don't think (7:00) it'll work well. You know, having read about these adaptors the feedback on performance was best with high-end record decks with plenty of torque in the motors. With something cheap like your portable, wow and flutter are a big problem.

[@Haku_records]

Plz free me from your discord limbo great magpie

[@randyab9go188]

I can see why this never cought on. No rewind? That little finger tool is not a proper rewind. It is very much like some of the very cheap Japanese 3-in reel to reel recorders using a stationary magnet that is moved against the tape. Not a very good system. If it was me I would have bought a good used unit before I had bought that thing even if I had to pay twice as much. Here in the states we have a term called a Rube Goldberg machine. Look it up.

[@saints986]

im early affffffff

[@wiemalte]

Same

[@krytenfivetwothreep2485]

How can I be the third person commenting if there's still only 1 view?!

[@ChemaOn]

@@krytenfivetwothreep2485 x2

[@e30-88]

Der totale Müll!!

[@andreajacey422]

Very nice 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️