al mcguire Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frias Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 That's roughly $550,000 in today's dollar value, considering about 4% annual inflation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 Those prices are why TEAC sold a lot of mid-fi recording gear starting just a few years later. Not nearly as good but good enough if you knew what you were doing (and what choice did you have anyhow, usually?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al mcguire Posted June 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 Those more ancient than me suggest that 16 track MM 1000's were available at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 That's the one--based on the Ampex Quad video transport. A beast but a great sounding beast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrd456 Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 I worked for Wally Heider studios in 1970 t0 1974.We had the 3M M56 16 track machines[great machine] in San Francisco and if I remember correctly they cost $1000 per track [$16000]. The 24 tracks didn't come out till 1973 for 3M and Ampex. 3M's M74 24 track totally failed because of a stupid new design of the electronics by having a huge mother board that flexed and cracked when plugging and unplugging the sub-boards [preamps,bias,etc.] in and out. I was flown down to Camarillo to inspect the prototype M74 with an older wiser engineer who was drunk and stoned the whole trip. I reported back that the machine would fail and why, and the older engineer reported back that it was really cool.So Wally Heider [since I was relatively new,he didn't listen to me] and we bought 8 or 9 M74's which after a month ate tape whenever they wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolo72 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 On 26 June 2016 at 9:39 PM, jrd456 said: I worked for Wally Heider studios in 1970 t0 1974.We had the 3M M56 16 track machines[great machine] in San Francisco and if I remember correctly they cost $1000 per track [$16000]. The 24 tracks didn't come out till 1973 for 3M and Ampex. 3M's M74 24 track totally failed because of a stupid new design of the electronics by having a huge mother board that flexed and cracked when plugging and unplugging the sub-boards [preamps,bias,etc.] in and out. I was flown down to Camarillo to inspect the prototype M74 with an older wiser engineer who was drunk and stoned the whole trip. I reported back that the machine would fail and why, and the older engineer reported back that it was really cool.So Wally Heider [since I was relatively new,he didn't listen to me] and we bought 8 or 9 M74's which after a month ate tape whenever they wanted. Respect to you Wally Heiders studio produced some of my favourite ever recordings. Here in Europe I beleive the Telefunken M10 machines were so expensive that Abbey road could not afford them, they had to settle for Studer C37's 😳 Lisala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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