What is a Wire Recorder? Webster-Chicago 'Electronic Memory' Model 228-1

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before tape, there was wire. the more you know...

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That first spool is sample gold man!!! Love finding archival “lost cupboard tapes”!! Love how much grain and grit these machines have!! Cheers!

soulslip

I have one and had to overhaul the insides so when you stopped it, the reels would stop and not continue to unspool wildly- very cool piece of equipment there!

edwardweiss

You've got a later model wire recorder with the revised head design! I'm still doing research on it myself to see all the improvements that were made, but notably this later design has a tensioning bar that should lift the wire off of the record head during rewind to prevent playback or erase in rewind mode.

Webster-Chicago (later Webcor) seem to have made a number of small improvements over time to the design to improve recording quality and user experience. Like the single button over the lever that made it a little easier to operate. Or the revised head design that covers more of the wire surface with sound information. This model also has an "emergency stop" feature that is supposed to detect a broken wire and stop the reels very quickly, though I have seen a few posts from people who say theirs doesn't work anymore.

AerFixus

Almost bought a wire recorder in the late 90's.

VintageGearMan

Love this. I have one just like it (my mic needs repaired with a new crystal element) and I have one that is a combo unit that can record and play wire, play 78 RPM records AND can broadcast what it's playing via FM to radios. So... if you have a party in the park everyone can tune in their car radios and you can rock the sound all over the park. lol

dwreid

Super fascinating! I had only seen Techmoans video recently so this is a great little follow up. I'm guessing there's no way to get a direct in/out to that beast?

SeriousThingsTomorrow

The hour long spools are especially prone to snapping during rewind! I lost a couple spools of a 1951 lecture because of that. And be sure if you have a Webster-Chicago machine get the spools that have the string type leader and not the plastic leader more meant for Silvertone type recorders.

oldradiosnphonographs

Very good rendition of a day in the life!

trashpandaO

Ah yes, yet another piece of technology we were able to snatch up during project paperclip. 👍🏻😉

TheGarageRecordingSC

I am curious about the input. You seem to have a different mic in the lovely Beatle ditty you played. If one came with out a mic, can you hack one in?

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