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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: I think the Tape Project word is getting around- G-36
« on: August 01, 2008, 10:59:58 PM »
Hi Bob
I'm using a 2 track 15 ips ReVox G-36 that Jack Clark did over a few years ago. I've had quite a few of them over the last 20 years and found them to do a much better job of recording than playing back. Charlie King(stellavox) wrote the article on them in Glass Audio about 15-20 years ago- "The Greening of the G-36". Jack has incorporated at least a few of Charlie's mods since the article came out. My friend Kara of DeHaviland Electric also has done some work on her G-36 and made some improvements to the circuit. DeParavicini also has done many rebuilds of the G-36. I think his is more of a total new circuit, rather than a mod to the original.
Jack mentioned to me about 8 years ago that high speed capstan shafts and 2 track heads were getting to be very hard to find. I suspect that today they would be near impossible to source, especially the capstan shafts.
They are very nicely made Swiss machines.
Rich Brown
Acoustic Arts
Portland, Oregon
I'm using a 2 track 15 ips ReVox G-36 that Jack Clark did over a few years ago. I've had quite a few of them over the last 20 years and found them to do a much better job of recording than playing back. Charlie King(stellavox) wrote the article on them in Glass Audio about 15-20 years ago- "The Greening of the G-36". Jack has incorporated at least a few of Charlie's mods since the article came out. My friend Kara of DeHaviland Electric also has done some work on her G-36 and made some improvements to the circuit. DeParavicini also has done many rebuilds of the G-36. I think his is more of a total new circuit, rather than a mod to the original.
Jack mentioned to me about 8 years ago that high speed capstan shafts and 2 track heads were getting to be very hard to find. I suspect that today they would be near impossible to source, especially the capstan shafts.
They are very nicely made Swiss machines.
Rich Brown
Acoustic Arts
Portland, Oregon