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either a trunk full of Kraft cheese, or a Philco radio, and Bing lifts the trunk open and there’s a big box with two handles on it, it was a tape machine. We carried it into the back yard, he says, “Toodle-oo, have fun with it.” I was busy, Mary was doing the laundry, hanging it on the line, I was outside in my studio/garage, and I looked at that tape machine and I says, “Oh my god, I can’t believe it.” All I had to do was add a fourth head in front and I got sound-on-sound! And I says,“Mary, forget the laundry, forget everything, we’re gonna pack the car and I’m gonna take with me a tape machine.” She says, “What’s that?” I says, “I’ll tell you.” By the time we got to New Mexico, driving to Chicago to play the Blue Note, I told her about it, and I says, “Here it is, it’s right on an envelope, I got it all drawn out, Inventing multitracking When I invented the 8-track I took it to Westrex which is Western Electrics in Hollywood, which turned it down; I took it to Colonel Ranger, he turned it down, saying it wouldn‘t work. So there was a ticket we had, Mary and I, we were visiting California and she was going to see her folks, and my friend and I were standing outside of Westrex in Hollywood, and he says, “What about Ampex? You got a free ride up there, I’ll take Mary’s half and you take your own, it won’t cost us anything, let’s go out and take one last shot at it.” [Ampex was located in San Carlos, CA, near today’s San Francisco airport.—Ed.] So I went out there and I explained to Alexander Poniatoff, the president of Ampex, that I had an idea for making a multitrack machine, and they flipped out on the idea. And they said, “We’ll have to hire seven or eight people to do this job,” and they did. There were two projects going at the same time. On this side of the hall was the first video recorder ever made, and on that side of the hall was the first multitrack tape machine ever made. [From www.ampex.com: “1954 Ampex introduces the first multi-track audio recorder derived from multi-track data recording technology.” [ ] “The Ampex VRX-1000 (later renamed the Mark IV) videotape recorder is introduced on March 14, 1956, at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters in Chicago. This is the first practical videotape recorder and is hailed as a major technological breakthrough.”—Ed.] as it’s gonna do this and this and that ”. She says, “You’ve never built one, you’ve never tried one, what if it doesn’t work?” So I says, “Oh it’ll work, it’ll work.” By the time we got into the state of Illinois, I wasn’t sure it was gonna work, so Mary was convincing me, gradually, that maybe I should have tried this thing, that I was one jump ahead of what was actually gonna take place. When we got to the new Lawrence hotel, I had called Ampex and told them that I needed another head, so they figured mine was blown. I didn’t tell them that I would put the fourth head on the front of that to have sound-on-sound. So “Lover”, “Brazil”, and “Caravan” were done on disc, then we switched over to tape and from “Tennessee Waltz” to “Mockingbird Hill”, “How High The Moon”, “The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise”—all the rest of them were done on tape on that particular machine. I still have that tape machine, it’s going into the Smithsonian RECORDING NOVEMBER 2009 The first guitar comes home When I left Chicago to go to New York, in the Thirties, I had six guitars—I said, “I’m goin’ to New York and I only need one guitar”—and I gave five guitars away. Just a few years ago one of them well, the kid was dying, and he had it under a bed, and when he was dying he said to his mother, he says, “I wish you’d do me a favor and find the rightful owner of this guitar, he gave it to me,” And when he died, his mother wrote me a letter, I went to Chicago, and I got my guitar back—the first L-5 Gibson I ever had. We’ll be featuring excerpts from this video interview on our website in the future. Watch this space for details, and keep one eye on www.recordingmag.com for announcements!
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Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
Les Paul Speaks
Cakewalk SONAR V-Studio 700
The Hybrid Guitar Recording Method—A Modern Way of Tracking Serious Tones, Part 1
Radial JDX and Phazer
Shure SM27 and SM137 Microphones
Eventide PitchFactor
Recording’s Guitar Column
Lexicon I•ONIX U42S RecordingInterface
Recording’s Showcase of Sounds
Readers’ Tapes
Vibesware GR-1 Guitar Resonator
BOSS ME-70 Guitar Multiple Effects
Line 6 BackTrack and BackTrack + Mic
Advertiser Index
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Recording - November 2009 - Cover2
Recording - November 2009 - 1
Recording - November 2009 - Fade In
Recording - November 2009 - 3
Recording - November 2009 - Contents
Recording - November 2009 - 5
Recording - November 2009 - Talkback
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Recording - November 2009 - Fast Forward
Recording - November 2009 - 9
Recording - November 2009 - 10
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Recording - November 2009 - Les Paul Speaks
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Recording - November 2009 - Cakewalk SONAR V-Studio 700
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Recording - November 2009 - The Hybrid Guitar Recording Method—A Modern Way of Tracking Serious Tones, Part 1
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Recording - November 2009 - 31
Recording - November 2009 - Radial JDX and Phazer
Recording - November 2009 - 33
Recording - November 2009 - Shure SM27 and SM137 Microphones
Recording - November 2009 - 35
Recording - November 2009 - Eventide PitchFactor
Recording - November 2009 - 37
Recording - November 2009 - Recording’s Guitar Column
Recording - November 2009 - 39
Recording - November 2009 - Lexicon I•ONIX U42S RecordingInterface
Recording - November 2009 - 41
Recording - November 2009 - Recording’s Showcase of Sounds
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Recording - November 2009 - Readers’ Tapes
Recording - November 2009 - 51
Recording - November 2009 - Vibesware GR-1 Guitar Resonator
Recording - November 2009 - 53
Recording - November 2009 - BOSS ME-70 Guitar Multiple Effects
Recording - November 2009 - 55
Recording - November 2009 - Line 6 BackTrack and BackTrack + Mic
Recording - November 2009 - Advertiser Index
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Recording - November 2009 - Fade Out
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