How Good Can a Wire Recorder Sound? - Ekko Recorder Restoration Part 6/6
115Demonstrating the restored Ekko Recorder. We will listen to some of the old recordings from the 50s, as well as doing some recordings of our own. How good will it sound?
Ekko Recorder Restoration Contents:
Part 1 - A Look Inside: https://youtu.be/TUdeO26Qvwo
Part 2 - The Mechanics: https://youtu.be/xF_6U3VeoIo
Part 3 - A Valuable Lesson About Film Capacitors: https://youtu.be/ABCRyNL46o0
Part 4 - Capacitor Replacement: https://youtu.be/E05mo0_ais0
Part 5 - Tests, Tweaks and Repairs: https://youtu.be/C4pWrPtO91U
Part 6 - Demonstration: https://youtu.be/SBV8MOq8DX4
Music:
Title: Suite No.2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 - Badinerie
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Source: https://musopen.org/music/1005/johann-sebastian-bach/orchestral-suite-no2-in-b-minor-bwv-1067/
License: CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed)
Title: Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 - Air
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performance: United States Air Force Band
License: CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed)
00:00 Contents
00:08 Introduction
00:30 Making Cables for Recording and Playback
03:24 Saving the Wire on the Collector Spool
05:40 Recordings from the 50s
05:57 Rhenvinets Lov
06:15 Jag Är Så Glad Att Jag Är Svensk
06:59 The Talking Wire
08:41 Speech Recording
08:54 Speech Playback
09:08 Cleaning the Playback/Record Head
09:37 Badinerie
11:03 Technology Conclusion
12:56 Air (in stereo)