[sdiy] Boombox/Synth Mod

[Anthony Bisset]

it was one of three that i had.. i kept the mod'd one and the other 4.2's
i sold, they were in really good shape.

this one, i bought out of the trunk of a car on haight street in sf from a
guy from LA who worked for ik multimedia and i assume took position of it
after someone he knew stole it and left it at his house or something

it came with this funny reel on which you could hear a LA tae bow type of
guy giving wrong instructions for how to use the machine.
i should have recorded that.

i took it to dan dugan to get it fixed up and he did a serial number
stolen property search before releasing it back to me with a $1400 bill
for maint.. which was fair... anyway, since it was the most banged up of
the 3 or 4 that i had, i decided to play with it a bit.

***k the purists... i make music and mod gear to that end.

enjoyed your story..
-a

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Mike wrote:

> >
> > i've done something a bit more involved to my nagra and it's great.
> >
> I hope the Kudelski owners club don't catch you! It's scarily like the UK
> guy I know who made a 'Chopper' out of a Vincent HRD, (though in his case it
> was a clone, designed to wind up the purists).
>
> As a poor student in the 70's I rebuilt a Nagra 3 that had been dropped down
> a cliff. F W O Bauch, the then UK agents were very sympathetic to my
> studently state, and sold me  parts at a trade price. Later, when funds were
> even tighter, I sold it, and actually made some money. I alway regret
> selling it though, (along iwth a valve Revox of similar vintage), it was one
> of the finest pieces of tape recorder engineering I've ever seen.
>
> Somewhere I've got a mono recording I did with it, of a friend practising
> the organ in a local church, taken with an old BBC/STC 'Beer Bottle' mic.
> For years I thought it was the best recording I ever made. I guess I fluked
> the mic position just right, but the Nagra kept all the detail.
>
> Mike
>
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