MCI - a well-kept secret
My love for MCI’s reel-to-reel machines comes from those beloved Windham Hill’s disc by Alex de Grassi, William Ackerman, Michael Hedges: cover liner-notes always quoted JH-110’s as master-machine!If...
View ArticleBass-camp 😎
Three days into his first solo attempt at scaling Mt. Everest, Joe finally arrives at bass-camp.
View ArticleA Kraftwerker’s VW
Florian Schneider's VW Beetle, built in 1949, new price DM 4,400, was sold in Düsseldorf in May 2021 to Kraftwerk fans from Tampa, USA. The couple (David Sanborn & Jennifer Huber) paid €52,000...
View ArticleAmpelmännchen
SATURDAY’s (GERMAN) WORDAmpelmännchenPronounced: Am-pel-main-chenMeaning: Little Traffic Light Man You'll encounter him every time you cross the street in Berlin.I like the hat!
View ArticleTom, the crooked tree
🪵 “My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the...
View ArticleMy music system in 1992
Still at home: Garrard 301 with Shindo platter and bearing, SME 3012 and SPU G/Shindo, Be Yamamura SUT, Marantz 10B and Marantz 7C, DIY Western Electric 421A amp, Chiocciola speakers (Altec 416A and...
View ArticleBo Hanson 🥇
Bo’s Opus3 label and minimalist recording changed my musical like 🥇🙏🥇Here shown while editing on Telefunken M15A.
View ArticleAbout the music in 1567
Da: Cosimo Bartoli, Ragionamenti accademici, Venezia, 1567, p. 35v.Spero bene che nessuno osi mettere in dubbio questa verità “sapendo chiaro, che mediante lei [la musica] si mantiene & regge...
View ArticleFrom my audio archive - MCI, Stellavox, Nagra, Schlumberger 🎼
Straight from the vaults, some cool original pro-audio leaflets… have literally tons of material… every 5/10 years, I browse some thick archival containers and I always find something I didn’t...
View Article14”
No 😉😊😉, it’s not John Holmes-que machism… I just got two seldom seen second-hand 3M/Scotch 14” reels for some 30 IPS upcoming recordings…The MCI perfectly handles these monsters (to my knowledge ,...
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