CassetteMaster | Magnemite 610 DV Tape Recorder!!!!!! @CassetteMaster | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 16 hours ago
This is a very special tape recorder, and was a very special gift from Amberola1b on YouTube!!
This is the Amplifier Corporation of America, aka Amplicorp, "Magnemite" tape recorder, model 610 DV. The Magnemite series spring-driven portable reel-to-reel tape recorders came out in 1952, a whopping 44 years before Pokémon was introduced in Japan in 1996 and 46 years before Pokémon's introduction in American in 1998. In other words, Magnemite was a tape recorder long before it was ever a Pokémon. And considering catching them all, there were quite a few different models of the Magnemite available in the '50s:
steampoweredradio.com/pdf/audio%20devices%201959_1960%20tape%20recorder%20directory/1959_1960%20tape%20recorder%20directory.pdf
The link above shows many models they made. It is possible this model with the meter, aka the "VU Magnemite" may have been more around 1955 than 1952 (I need to do more research) but the original non-VU metered version of the Magnemite came out in 1952.
The Magnemite series was available in single-speed units ranging from 15/16 IPS (with a terrible frequency response) to 15 IPS. There was a multi-speed model, that had no meter, but all the models with a meter had a single speed, and you had to order it to that speed. They were also available in either half-track or full-track, and there was even a stereo version produced.
The model shown is 7 1/2 IPS, full-track mono (a format I am becoming more and more fond of). There is no erase function, so the tape has to be bulk-erased. Rewind is performed manually.
This is a spring-driven recorder, therefore no electric motor is used. You wind it up, like a music box. Due to the geared spring mechanism being flutter-prone, an external flywheel (looking like a steering wheel) is included, which greatly helps in speed stabilization.
This vacuum-tube/valve recorder is AC bias, running off a 1.5V filament supply and a 90V plate supply, and also another 1.5V cell powers the little light that indicate when the spring needs rewound. When that light turns on and off rapidly as the mechanism slowly starts or stops, it electrically induces a very interesting and rather satisfying static sound!
This unit previously had work attempted on it, with the capacitors replaced, but I had to do additional troubleshooting to get the unit to amplify again. Still needed is to send the pinch roller off to get new rubber and to install a balanced microphone jack on the side, but that is for a future time. Even with the current pinch roller, the machine is performing rather well, and it is just a pleasure to use this machine! I can't thank you enough, Ed!!
It is fun to bring to show friends this machine, and record music on it with them. In the future I will upload some songs, recorded live using this delightful piece of 1950s technology!!
This is a very special tape recorder, and was a very special gift from Amberola1b on YouTube!!
This is the Amplifier Corporation of America, aka Amplicorp, "Magnemite" tape recorder, model 610 DV. The Magnemite series spring-driven portable reel-to-reel tape recorders came out in 1952, a whopping 44 years before Pokémon was introduced in Japan in 1996 and 46 years before Pokémon's introduction in American in 1998. In other words, Magnemite was a tape recorder long before it was ever a Pokémon. And considering catching them all, there were quite a few different models of the Magnemite available in the '50s:
steampoweredradio.com/pdf/audio%20devices%201959_1960%20tape%20recorder%20directory/1959_1960%20tape%20recorder%20directory.pdf
The link above shows many models they made. It is possible this model with the meter, aka the "VU Magnemite" may have been more around 1955 than 1952 (I need to do more research) but the original non-VU metered version of the Magnemite came out in 1952.
The Magnemite series was available in single-speed units ranging from 15/16 IPS (with a terrible frequency response) to 15 IPS. There was a multi-speed model, that had no meter, but all the models with a meter had a single speed, and you had to order it to that speed. They were also available in either half-track or full-track, and there was even a stereo version produced.
The model shown is 7 1/2 IPS, full-track mono (a format I am becoming more and more fond of). There is no erase function, so the tape has to be bulk-erased. Rewind is performed manually.
This is a spring-driven recorder, therefore no electric motor is used. You wind it up, like a music box. Due to the geared spring mechanism being flutter-prone, an external flywheel (looking like a steering wheel) is included, which greatly helps in speed stabilization.
This vacuum-tube/valve recorder is AC bias, running off a 1.5V filament supply and a 90V plate supply, and also another 1.5V cell powers the little light that indicate when the spring needs rewound. When that light turns on and off rapidly as the mechanism slowly starts or stops, it electrically induces a very interesting and rather satisfying static sound!
This unit previously had work attempted on it, with the capacitors replaced, but I had to do additional troubleshooting to get the unit to amplify again. Still needed is to send the pinch roller off to get new rubber and to install a balanced microphone jack on the side, but that is for a future time. Even with the current pinch roller, the machine is performing rather well, and it is just a pleasure to use this machine! I can't thank you enough, Ed!!
It is fun to bring to show friends this machine, and record music on it with them. In the future I will upload some songs, recorded live using this delightful piece of 1950s technology!!
