so there was an 1/8" mono track on each side and the recording/payback head was also mono. This is on 1/4" tape, where it was a mono recording. Here is an old Wollensak on an eBay listing, like the one that my father had, back in 1960. In the studio's the better ones operated at 15 I.P.S. Still you have to realize, that most recorder's that were quality machines, like the Wollensak that my father used, operated at a speed of 7 1/2 I.P.S. My Nagra ended up being upgraded and was used on the set of Miami Vice. I bought one some years after I sold off my 16mm Bolex camera's. I may even still have one, hiding in boxes somewhere. I had one or two of these myself, they were nice units. Sony and Marantz both made portable cassette recorders, some of which were modified for use for recording analog motion picture sound for budget productions. When you look back at mainstream Hollywood and movie making, everything was made like it was manufactured for N.A.S.A. No self respecting sound man would ever use anything other than a Nagra. All most every movie ever made on location, used a Nagra of one sort or another. The number one use of Nagra's was to record motion picture sound. The name Nagra means "to record" in Polish. Click to expand.The first tube prototype appeared in 1951.
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