Uncleboko wrote:And a Teac 3340 reel to reel tape recorder on the shelf behind him!
Along with the Teac, there are two Revox reel-to-reel tape recorders. Just visible on the left of the Teac and on a higher shelf is a valve G36 from the mid-1960s. On the right is the follow-up to the G36, the all-transistor A77, which appeared in 1967. Both could handle professional 10.5 inch spools and were available as 'high-speed' versions (15ips / 7.5ips). To get recording studio quality It seems likely that Brian would have had the high speed versions.
The Teac (which offered 4-track simultanious recording on quarter-inch tape) did not appear until 1972. Until then, Brian would have created multi-track stereo by bouncing between the two Revoxes. By the mid-seventies (my guess at the age of the picture) he was not using the G36, which is on a high shelf out of the way with no wiring. He would have been using the Teac for individual instruments and finally outputting a stereo mix to the A77 (both have cable connections going to them). The mixer (also possibly made by Teac) has master faders for four outputs. Brian would have needed to keep recording levels as high as possible since the 3340 did not have Dolby noise reduction.
To the left of the 3340 and on the same shelf is a sine-wave tone generator. Directly below it and to the left of the mixer is what appears to be a Teac cassette recorder.
Fascinating picture! It brings back a few memories because in the 1970s I also had a high-speed G36 and a high-speed A77 plus a couple of Alice mixers (made in Windsor by Ted Fletcher who had recorded for Joe Meek). Nobody really famous ever asked me to record them, but I recorded a lot of very interesting singers and musicians.
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:56 am
