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Welcome to Phantom Production's Vintage recording Collection "creative entertainment and production since 1964" |
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In collecting our vintage recorders, we have attempted to include units that had a significant role in the development of audio recording. Our focus is primarily on those reel to reel tape recorders that enabled musicians to hone their craft. We felt it would be interesting to include some of the early cylinder, disk and wire units, however, our main collection reflects the recorders that first became available to musicians and "prosumers" in the late 1940's, '50's, '60's, '70's and early '80's. So many innovations assisted the musician to capture that unique sound. They included, "sound with, and on sound," echo, and then came multi-tracking. There are presently 136 reel to reel tape reorders in the Phantom Production's collection.
View collection by manufacturer's name:
CYLINDER, WIRE, 1/4" TAPE, 1/2" TAPE • 1 TRACK, 2 TRACK, 4 TRACK, 8 TRACK AND 16 TRACK
Recent updates:
Uher 4400, Ampex 200, Ampex 300, Ampex 351 restored
Essential to the recordings were the microphones and mixers, so we've added some of those pieces as well.
View microphones by manufacturer's name:
PhantomProductions' Vintage Microphone Collection
Recent updates:
1967 Telefunken Magnetophon 204
1971 Teac brochure profiling the AN-180, AN-80 and the AN-60 Dolby Noise reduction units
Added Accurate Sound 300 SS / Ampex 351 amplifier
1948 article on Magnetic Recording featuring ABC's use of the Ampex 200A
Page dedicated to our microphone collection
RCA 77DX, RCA 74B and Sennheiser MD 421
We have vintage Calrad mics for sale at this link
Phantom Productions is the registered trademark of Phantom Productions, Inc. Copyright 2011. All pictures and content on this web site are the property of Phantom Productions, Inc.
For perspective, we added reel to reel pages in radio catalogs from the late '30's to the early '80's and included tape recorder ads as well. We hope you enjoy our online information. Take a look at our "Phantom Time Line" page also. You'll see some of the audio and video units that were interesting benchmarks of production development. It continues to evolve as we have time. Enjoy!
Go to the Catalog and Ads Index page
Recent updates: In the last 12 months we have added an additional 3,000+ ads to the collection. The total image content on the site now exceeds 10,000 images.
View story on Phantom's Vintage Reel to Reel Tape Recorder Museum
Vintage recording manufacturers in our recorder, microphone and documents collection include: AKAI, ALTEC, AMPEX, AMERICAN MICROPHONE,AMPERITE, ARGONNE, ASTATIS, BELL, BELL AND HOWELL, BERLANT CONCERTONE,BRUSH, CALRAD, CONCERTONE, CONCORD, CROWN, DOKORDER, EDISON, ELECTRO VOICE EV, FENTONE, FOSTEX, GARRARD, JBL, LLOYD'S, MAGNECORDER, MAGNECORD, MARANTZ, MARTEL, MILES REPRODUCTION, MONARCH, NAGRA, NORELCO, OTARI, PENTRON, PICKERING, PHILLIPS, PRESTO, PIONEER, RCA, REALISTIC, RESLO, REVOX, RHEEM, ROBERTS, SENNHEISER, SHURE, SONY, SPARTA, SPECTONE, TANDBERG, TASCAM, TEAC, TECHNICS, TELEFUNKEN, TELMAR, TOSHIBA, TURNER, VIKING, WEBCOR, WEBSTER CHICAGO, WILCOX GAY, WOLLENSAK, 3M, YORK, YAMAHA
