Bombastic music with a twist – I believe one channel was slightly delayed and gave a more spacious sound. I spent hours recording things like “check check test one two.”Īt Korvettes I bought some prerecorded music and one tape in particular impressed me: Enoch Light and the Light Brigade. I bought an Astatic microphone which at least appeared hardier and more serious than the Webcor one. It had two heads, erase and record/play, built-in speakers, and did work. Who wouldn’t want one of these? A Roberts 1040 is on the left.Īfter maybe some years of snow shoveling, lawn mowing and saving what I’d earned and from my allowance, I finally managed to buy that Roberts. Many pieces of audio treasure…and a Roberts 1040 reel to reel tape recorder. Back it went.įast forward to high school years (1960-64): I would visit the local stereo shop almost weekly (Soundex, in Ardmore, PA). All I remember was that the microphone was crap, it had a cool “magic eye” record-level indicator and the recorder didn’t record. They had cheaper Webcor tape recorders and I managed to scrape the bucks to purchase one. Korvette was a big box department type store. I have sometimes wondered if my entry into a career in radio was actually influenced by my failure to utter one word into that amazing machine.Į.J. His son showed the tape recorder to me, babbled into the microphone then played it back. I was a kid about seven when I refused to speak.Ī neighbor was the sales manager for RCA in Philly and as such, would get some of the earliest gear when it was introduced: a projection TV, color TV, and back when I was kid, a tape recorder.

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