Topic: What was your first recording device?

[cybergaloot]

Something along the lines of this but not as nice and certainly not a brand name. It was the '60s and I remember trying for a week to record my sister's copy of Sgt. Pepper to it without my friends making noise (wookies even then!). I had a Realistic 8 track recorder, various cassette recorders and a Docoder Reel to Reel (still have it, weighs a ton!). But my first taper recorder was a Zoom H2 which I still have in the collection and which works much better than the detractors would have you believe, especially when you use an external preamp and mics.

[owainturner]

Almost ashamed to admit it but my first device was this;


(I'm very new to the game!)

I use to record gigs from internals until I came across this board, now I'm onto CA gear and M10...

I have to say the Sony Walkman in the fist post is absolutely gorgeous, they don't make devices like that anymore.

[yawnfactory]

so no one had one of these in their pocket?

[fandelive]

There are also plenty of vintage recorders videos made by die-hard collectors on YouTube !!!
Just follow the link below : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1qOHWna4E

[biker]

I had a rounded plastic cassette recorder like the one here: http://etsy-vintage.blogspot.com/2010/03/vintage-panasonic-portable-cassette.html but I could have sworn it was stereo. First concert I taped was Styx in Pekin IL when I was about 14. I found the tapes! Styx was 9/29/1977 and then I caught a Queen show at the Checkerdome in St Louis on Thanksgiving Day - 11/25/1978. Smuggled it in under my coat. I was hanging out after the Styx show as my Dad wasn't going to pick me up until later when I stumbled across John Panozzo. Managed to talk to him about drumming for a few minutes, all the while terrified the recorder would fall out and I'd be busted!

Ram Jam opened for Styx and I caught Black Betty on tape at the end of their set.

My Dad went with me to the Queen show, and I remember the entire row in front of us was smoking it up. I tried to inhale as much as possible without being noticed, but I doubt I fooled him any!

[doodee]

I had a rounded plastic cassette recorder like the one here: http://etsy-vintage.blogspot.com/2010/03/vintage-panasonic-portable-cassette.html but I could have sworn it was stereo. First concert I taped was Styx in Pekin IL when I was about 14. I found the tapes! Styx was 9/29/1977 and then I caught a Queen show at the Checkerdome in St Louis on Thanksgiving Day - 11/25/1978. Smuggled it in under my coat. I was hanging out after the Styx show as my Dad wasn't going to pick me up until later when I stumbled across John Panozzo. Managed to talk to him about drumming for a few minutes, all the while terrified the recorder would fall out and I'd be busted!

Ram Jam opened for Styx and I caught Black Betty on tape at the end of their set.

My Dad went with me to the Queen show, and I remember the entire row in front of us was smoking it up. I tried to inhale as much as possible without being noticed, but I doubt I fooled him any!

Added bonus - the rare Pickwick blank cassette sighting.

[TNJazz]

You need to transfer those if you haven't already, just for nostalgia's sake.

[MSTaper]

I had a couple of small reel-to-reel recorders when I was a kid but never recorded any music with them. I did record a Heart concert in Huntsville, Ala., in the mid to late 1970s with a single mic cassette recorder that's still lying around somewhere. The recording was not that good but I'd love to find the tape. I taped a local punk band with it as well, then didn't get truly into "taping" until 2007 when I bought an R-09, which I still use. I primarily use the Fostex FR-2LE now.

MSTaper