Saturlight
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I am not talking about early talkies here!
No, I mean making recordings on a tape recorder for personal use. My older bruv had a reel-to-reel tape machine from the mid 1960s. I loved it as a kid. It looked so professional, like a BBC machine.
Then I got my first tape recorder on which me and my mate would tape the Radio 1 top 40. In those days, we all had to keep quiet as either I or him, put the mircophone to the radio speaker. The best way was to put both radio and tape machine in a different room, and leave it alone, with the "sound proof" bedroom door was shut.
But although Brad (my mate) was quite content with the result, I hated it. I got frustrated by the sound quality, with the harsh "esses" - so instead of "she's my girl" it sounded like "ssssheseshess my shirl!"
Grr....lol.! It wasn't until the early 1980s when more affordable tape recorders and radios were combined into one package. And the sound improved a lot.
Today, "the kids" don't know what it was like, in those early days...
No, I mean making recordings on a tape recorder for personal use. My older bruv had a reel-to-reel tape machine from the mid 1960s. I loved it as a kid. It looked so professional, like a BBC machine.
Then I got my first tape recorder on which me and my mate would tape the Radio 1 top 40. In those days, we all had to keep quiet as either I or him, put the mircophone to the radio speaker. The best way was to put both radio and tape machine in a different room, and leave it alone, with the "sound proof" bedroom door was shut.
But although Brad (my mate) was quite content with the result, I hated it. I got frustrated by the sound quality, with the harsh "esses" - so instead of "she's my girl" it sounded like "ssssheseshess my shirl!"
Grr....lol.! It wasn't until the early 1980s when more affordable tape recorders and radios were combined into one package. And the sound improved a lot.
Today, "the kids" don't know what it was like, in those early days...