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My oldest machine was this 1958 mod. 351

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Victor Khomenko

In Reply to: RE: Why even bother asking... posted by kootenay on June 08, 2024 at 10:54:00

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RE: My oldest machine was this 1958 mod. 351 - Inmate51 09:03:47 06/09/24 (1)
Looks like the precursor to the AG-440. Do you have one or three of those, too? ;) Back in the day, it was a workhorse in radio stations across the country. Build like a tank, but sonically nothing special. It was our workhorse machine in the A/V department back in college. I don't miss it, rugged as it was. ;)
Do I spy an MCI 2-channel in the corner? They were pretty good decks - not excellent - but pretty good. That is, except for the gap scatter. You didn't want to record on or mix down 16 channels on it, unless you recorded, edited and mixed on the same machine, unless you had measured your deck's gap alignment and knew which tracks "played nice" with each other. (HF phase and cancellation issues.)
Carry on. :)

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Edits: 06/09/24
- Yes, that's my Mara Machines JH-110-C - Victor Khomenko 10:52:55 06/09/24 (0)
  Apparently, many people loved the MCI's, even though their reliability was not the greatest. It is an interesting machine, I love mine.
  
  Yes, I do have the 440 series, mine is the 445, the playback only machine with a 2 track - 4 track switch. You are right, the electronics, mostly responsible for the sound, is not great at all, but I use it with the external preamp.
What happened to the bottom half of it?... - kootenay 12:27:41 06/08/24 (1)
Johnny Cash used this model to record his mono recordings at Sun Records.
- Johnny Cash took it? - Victor Khomenko 16:26:21 06/08/24 (0)
  The drive was all I got.

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