jandyt wrote:

Watched a fascinating documentary recently about how ELO used a Beocord Reel to Reel to do their multi tracking.  

 

I saw that too. It was really great, though Jeff Lynne used it mostly before they were called ELO. He did start his producing career with a 2000 Deluxe 🙂

Peter wrote:

keep my eye on the vintage bits and pieces

That's good.🙂
 The newer stuff has is out of my reach and therefore my interest in the brand has greatly reduced. Still got all the same stuff I had😕 but not quite as enthusiastic as I was before.  I do pop in occasionally, but the community isn't like it used to be in the good old days, so I don't stop long.
Hope you, Jo and Eleanor are well. 🙂

I have one of them Søren   Lying dormant in my er ... dormitory  bedroom.🙂

jandyt wrote:

I have one of them Søren   Lying dormant in my er ... dormitory  bedroom.🙂

I am happy with my Beocord 1800 which has almost identical performance, it enjoys a revival in my bedroom - where it plays back 7" reels recorded on my half track B77 HS 😕

The 1200 was one of the last B&O reel to reel decks. Very nicelystyled and designed so it could be used upright. It did not have the performance of the 1800 or 2400 which were just about professional machines but served a useful purpose.I have had a 1200, 1500 and a 2400 but have given them all to Tim who appreciates them! Always seemed just a bit too inconvenient for me!!

Søren, "fast wearing" ?

Have the Bogen heads had general issues if need of replaycement ?

Almost impossible to find today I asume. ?

Christian

Christian Christensen wrote:

Søren, "fast wearing" ?

Have the Bogen heads had general issues if need of replaycement ?

Almost impossible to find today I asume. ?

 

Christian

Don't worry too much - they were the best heads available back then, along with the Woelke heads that came with Revox and Studer decks.

I have used my 1800 for lots of hours with both new, well calendered (polished) tape and older abrasive (think AGFA PER525, BASF LGR50 and Scotch 203) and they still seem fine; I just know that they are made of soft permalloy, but the wear time should still reside in the 200-300 hours region (if not more; the soft Revox heads last a little longer.)

If the heads are pretty worn you should still be able to pull some extra life out of them through a relapping (albeit expensive.)

300 hours is nothing.
Consinder a person that bought a recorder 1968 and played an onehour tape everyday, the tapeheads on that machine would be really bad 1969.

Which some 40 years later would mena there is a huge possibility that all heads are in horrible shape now.

How do we identify a bad tapehead ?
Sounds bad ?
Impossible to trim BIAS to accuired treble level ?

Christian

I saw a documentary years ago, he was re producing ELO music and he pointed it out sitting on the floor of his studio.