KT Tunstall played on a 1964 Geloso 681 open reel recorder

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A Demonstration of a Geloso 681 monophonic open reel tape recorder. It was designed using solid state circuitry (one of the first of Geloso brand) to take home voice recordins, using a microphone thai is not built-in, but a square-shaped that can be stored on a compartment underneath the set. Althought it´s not a Hi-Fi, its quite surprising the sound quality - but to achieve this, you will need to build an adapter to use the microphone input as line-in an record music from your preferred source.

As you can notice, there's some room for improvement for this restoration job, since the mechanical parts is still too noisy while playing, due to deformation on internal rubber wheels.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Geloso
• 1964
• open
• reel
• tape
• recorder
• deck
• gravador
• de
• rolo

[ignitore]

thank you very much! I'll give a try. about the pulleys i found that if rubber is a quite soft the mill solution is great solution. btw if rubber is very dry mill solution is also very good but in the first minutes of working pulleys will be a little noisy ( very less btw). when tubes'll heat mechanics problem 99% disapear... so... in case of very dry pulleys if think refubrish is best solution.

[billaggio]

@ignitore I have a Sony r2r & cassete player ... on that one, i used the "mill solution" =] It is working fine with low mechanical noise. When i get some spare money and free time, i'll send those pulleys for refurbish =]

[ignitore]

the infamous problem of noisy pulleys! I had to mill the pulleys of my 258 and the problem is 90% gone but if it' s cold it's noisy in the first minutes. have some link to buils an input adapter ?cause i' s like to rip some music in the tapes.

[billaggio]

@ignitore Indeed, the noisy pulleys! I did nothing about, yet. I´ll ask for a local specialist to refurbish the pulleys.

To adapt the input you'll need an 220Ohms resistor in parallel between input and ground and a 220uF capacitor in series wih the input . Simple as that =] [sorry for my english]

[ignitore]

I don' t know why YT don't let post the link of the video!!! anyway you find it under geloso g600 input adapter

[ignitore]

@billaggio hello, I tried your solution and seems to work fine ! so thanx a lot for your kind help:)