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Our 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 Theophilus/Reel2ReelTexas.com collection. View collection by manufacturer's name	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:  Theophilus/Reel2ReelTexas' Vintage Microphone Collection 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 400 pages and 14,500 images. Three part quick tour of the R2R Texas.com collection	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 Fox News MOMSR story KXAN Austin Recording Museum Update View Austin's NBC KXAN story by Jim Swift about the vintage collection view Jim Swift's print story View story on Phantom's Vintage Reel to Reel Tape Recorder Museum We have vintage Calrad mics for sale at this link © 2015 Reel2ReelTexas.com

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