The Mystery Reels - Part I

[Felix2417425]

Please can you send mp3 from this tape of the song which begins at 1:20 and ends at 4:58? Please, I really like it! Regards!

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Reel to reel owns all tape format!

[sonic503789]

the first song is zorba :D

i love that song <3

[reelfanobsession]

lovely machine there, just aquired one myself sound is fantastic for such an old machine, cool music there too.

[miked32]

VERY VERY COOL!! GREAT MUSIC AND SOUND! 

[Ragrog105]

There's a lot to be said about analog vs. digital. I will take analog any day over digital. I have a Sony TC630 R to R and I run it through 2 Olson Electronics 12 watt tube amps I built as kits back in about 1964. (The amp kits sold for $19.95, with all 5 tubes back then. A similar kit now is well over $500. One lousy 6V6 output tube now costs $20)

Most of my music collection is on 12" vinyl, not CD's. What a difference in sound quality. The CD's sound so artificial when compared to vinyl.

[audubon5425]

I'm pretty sure that was the second version of Peter Gunn that Mancini recorded for the soundtrack of "Gunn" around '68.

[sanjayrego1]

Guys, my dad had some of these and if i can remember right, each side of the spool had 4 tracks... I think it could play 4X90 minutes per side. We had a Grundig player. Wow! this video has just brought back great memories.

San

[oviwolf]

VERY NICE! Those tapes sound fantastic!

I like your GX 260 D!

[HD7100]

Great video of a vintage reel-to-reel deck. I have an Akai 1730D.SS that I have used in my stereo setup for some years now. It is not solenoid control like your model is but it is 4 channel Stereo although I have only used it as two channel. Maybe I'll post a video of it.

[JFD62780]

o.o Holy shit. How many minutes were those three RTR's at 3 3/4"? O.O

[spatsbear2]

It is 90 minutes per side @ 1800ft. So about 180 minutes per reel.

Truth is, I've only played through the first side and only half of the other of just this reel. I still have 2 more reel to do.

[JFD62780]

Whoa... I remember in my experience when 90-minute Compact Cassettes were The Shit, when I got my first Fisher-Price tape recorder. (in 1989 at age 9; how sad is THAT? :P) Anyway, three hours per reel... Wow. o.o

[umajunkcollector]

The second song is Peter Gun, the third is Hey Jude, and the forth is James Bond' 007 theme.

Sounds like a good instumental tape - fun stuff!

[umajunkcollector]

The song is Zorba The Greek. Herb Alpert and the TJB also did a great rendition of this song. It was from an old 60s movie of the same name with Anthony Quinn.

[BadEditPro]

I don't know what the tune is but that tape sounds wonderful for 3 $ 3/4! :) JC

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

WOW! That is very cool! That Reel to Reel looks and sounds fantastic!

[Organgrinder010]

I like the music! :D Sounds fantastic, great quality.

[aldiakaroofus]

It's always fun to find and listen to homemade reel-to-reel tapes. Plus, they last almost forever! CD-Rs don't even last a decade!

[spatsbear2]

These 3 reels were not even stored in the best of conditions either, and still sound near perfect with no dropouts.

Plus the sound quality of a reel to reel :)

[harleybadger1]

Very cool, Spats! Somewhere, probably not gonna find them, but anyways, somewhere in all my stuff I have about 40 RTR tapes I will be glad to send you if I can ever find them...

[spatsbear2]

That would be neat :)

[jasonlava]

Good stereo separation too.  The camera picked it up well.

[spatsbear2]

It did pick up well, but it sounds amazing in person. I could pick out every instrument and its location.

[jasonlava]

Cool to find old tapes that were recorded back in the day.

Radio Shack sold (under the Realistic brand) some real quality stuff. The guy who recorded must've had a real high-end Realistic system with excellent frequency response.

[spatsbear2]

The tapes here sound nearly full frequency. I know this Akai can do either 19kHz to 21kHz, depending on the type of tape used, on 3 3/4ips.

[CassetteMaster]

It's a shame that Realistic deck got ruined by rust...

[spatsbear2]

Yeah... truth is, that was my first full size component reel to reel deck :(

[itscool1968]

whats with the rabbit ears on top of the reel to reel does it make it play back better:)

kidding

[spatsbear2]

Temporary dipole antenna for the receiver until I get an antenna mounted in the attic.

[itscool1968]

i love my sony pro unit i have had for years and my tascam unit.

youres is a nice unit whare did you get it

[spatsbear2]

Good friend gave it to me 3 years ago.

[benno6664]

the 90s group LCD did a remix called Zorbas dance

[gusherb94]

I love all the cool old songs on that tape! thanks for posting that, it's awesome. and BTW awfully good sound quality over that camera.

[Trance88]

Pretty neat. I could see you possibly using that Peter Gunn Track in a video.

[bbishoppcm]

Very cool!! I was given a few reels from a neighbor many years back to play on an old Webcor I fixed. I found something on those alright... one of the tapes was of his son when he was a child... his son died in the early 1980s, and my neighbor had no idea he had those recordings!

[wildbilltexas]

Whoever made this recording loved MOR music. I also enjoy going to thrift stores and finding homemade reel-to-reel recordings.

[eskiewolf76]

It was like a time capsule got unearthed! Very nice music selection.

And I did say this before, Nice Tape deck there!

Thanks for sharing!

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

That song were you said "i know ive heard this somewhere"

Hell i know if heard that somewhere too! Now its killing me...hmm i think maybe it was somewhere in my mothers music collection.

[bmtimv]

hopefully the youtube police doesnt catch this one