the real story of 8 track recording

[Bob Olhsson]

Here's a link to an article by the inventor.

http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/sel-sync/snyder_sel-sync.pdf

I'll chime in with the rest of the story in the next day or so.

[Tim Armstrong]

Fascinating, Bob!

Just a note: the $10,000 price to Les Paul in 1956 would be over $77,000 in 2007 dollars!

Cheers, Tim

[Dan Kennedy]

It'd be hard to miss 60ips, ouch...

[G cubed]

Ahhh the good old days. The Ampex 450 is what I cut my teeth on. They were very popular throughout studios in the late 70's and early 80's. They were easy to maintain and quite dependable.

[bunnerabb]

I seem to recall Dozier saying that Motown buiklt their oen 8 track since they didn't have the money for a commercial model, in the BBC special.

[Bob Olhsson]

That wasn't actually true. Mike had to talk Berry into building it rather than buying one because we needed remote control input switching and punch capability.