Phantom Productions' goal is to help preserve the history of the development of the open reel, or analog reel to reel tape recorder and recognize those persons who provided the innovations along the way.  In spite of its relatively short history (1930's to the 1980's), the reel tape recorder enabled folks for the first time to capture sound with ever increasing levels of quality. Whether it be the musician preparing for the studio, broadcasters documenting a major event, or just capturing granddad interacting with the kids, reel tape recorders preserved the moments.

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Reel to Reel Tape Recorders	Microphones	Ads, Catalogs, Reviews and Specs
In collecting our vintage analog open reel tape 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 151 reel to reel tape reorders in the Phantom Production's collection. View collection by manufacturer's name:   A B-D E-K  L-O  P-R  S  T 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,  There are over 100 microphones in our collection. View microphones by manufacturer's name:   Phantom Productions' Vintage Microphone Collection Recent updates and additions: Tapesonic 70A Pioneer RTU-11 Teac X-1000R - one of Teac's last reel to reels Sony TC-765 Sony's last reel to reel tape recorder Ampex PR-260 data reel to reel recorder Teac TD-102 - the first Teac tape recorder Berlant Concertone 1401 Akai GX-400D-SS (1 owner w/Original box) Reel Tape Recorder Company Histories Ampex ATR-100 1979 ads - over 100 new ads added 1978 ads - 50+ new ads added 1975 ads - 100+ new ads added 1974 ads - 100+ new ads added 1969 Telefunken Brochure 1979/80 Pioneer brochure 1974 ads - tape Rec listings, etc. Released Version 4 of the The Recorder DVD set and download Sony C37P Studer ReVox Dynavox T26 Tape Athon Brenell Mark 5 S Webcor Professional CP2650 1972 3M Wollensak6250 1966 3M Wollensak 5780 1967 Telefunken Magnetophon 204  1966 Uher brochure 1982 ads and articles 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 Ads from 1947 and 1948 Page dedicated to our microphone collection RCA  77DX, RCA 74B and Sennheiser MD 421	For perspective, we added reel to reel pages in radio catalogs from the late '30's to the early '80's and included open reel 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 Austin's NBC KXAN story by Jim Swift about the vintage collection View story on Phantom's Vintage Reel to Reel Tape Recorder Museum View News Story (RealPlayer) 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.

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Vintage recording manufacturers in our analog 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