3. Mike McLean with the Motown custom 8-track recorder. of our tape-to-disk transfer rooms was intended to meet Motown's needs at the time, which were: low cost, mono-only and the best quality possible. However, there was no preview-controlled variable pitch and depth (this arrived at Motown later), as pop records had only one level, which was loud!" Shown in Picture 5 is Motown's mono disk room. It had a Neumann AM131 lathe with 4. Motown's console in 1964 consisted of a modified 1939 Western Electric mixer, supplemented by two rackmount submixers: a 4-input Ampex MX-10 (seen in bottom of slanted rack on the left of the photo) and a 5-input Altec 1567A mixer (not visible here), which was located in a rack behind the mix position. a Neumann/Teldec type ES-59 cutter head and a Studer C37 tape machine. "In the upper right side of the picture you can see the Type One-the kind that you purchased at the flea market. It provided everything we needed-it was a single channel mono unit, with selectablehttp://www.EarTrumpetLabs.com http://www.realtraps.com http://www.EarTrumpetLabs.com http://www.realtraps.com