We are also very keen to hear of your own experiences with Presto recorders and history, perhaps we can film you speaking about them.
Thank you for all your help!
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We are also very keen to hear of your own experiences with Presto recorders and history, perhaps we can film you speaking about them.
Thank you for all your help!
We are also very keen to hear of your own experiences with Presto recorders and history, perhaps we can film you speaking about them.
Thank you for all your help!
I cut a LOT of sides on a Presto 6N in Olympia, WA. I've done some of the live to lathe stuff as well... Was just cutting dubs an hour ago of a project that was intended as live to lathe, but in which the masters got ruined in transit. Luckily we had it backed up digitally as well.
I also spent a six-hour day recording a band called Amo Joy, live to lathe over and over and over again onto picnic plates. Full band setup in my Kitchen, 4 Presto 6ns cranking in my bedroom.
Check out: piaptk.com and lathecuts.com to see what I do.
I also spent a six-hour day recording a band called Amo Joy, live to lathe over and over and over again onto picnic plates. Full band setup in my Kitchen, 4 Presto 6ns cranking in my bedroom.
Check out: piaptk.com and lathecuts.com to see what I do.
Good for you on your endeavor for the 78 project. I have owned several K's over the years. Started with one in 1945 when in high school recording recitals, weddings, etc.
If you have not visited the Presto History page on the internet, I invite you to do so. http://www.prestohistory.com
By the way - the age of the K8 is circa 1940, not 1930.
Alan
If you have not visited the Presto History page on the internet, I invite you to do so. http://www.prestohistory.com
By the way - the age of the K8 is circa 1940, not 1930.
Alan
Hello there, great to meet you, Piaptk. We love what you're doing, also love that you do limited runs on vinyl. Great to know. It would be good fun to find a way to work together down the road. We plan to be in the Northwest sometime in the coming months, and would love to meet you and check out your setup. 4 6Ns going simultaneously? Woah! Very cool.
Hello Alan! It is a great pleasure to meet you, we have been huge fans and avid readers of your site for a few years now. It has inspired and informed us many times along the way. We were also really happy to see new postings from Bob and Joe Saliba, both of whom have been really generous to us with their own time and information. You are right about that particular Presto in the picture being from c. 1940: Bob looked at the ser # on it and said it was from the New York facility, and therefor from an early production run, though apparently that may have been slightly earlier than 1940. In any event, we do have a few Prestos (we're not collectors, just need to always have a working one for our project), and our original inspiration was some of the earlier models (hence our reference to the 1930's). If you have time, we would love to meet up with you when we're in the Northwest, we'd love to speak with you and film you speaking about your love and knowledge of the Presto.
Would love to meet up with you. Let me know where and when - and we can work out some details.
By the way, looking at the k8 in your photo - it migh be a k10 - if not marked, then it is a modified k8. I see along side the head the advance ball mechanism which was added to the K8 becoming the K10. This places it in the era of the microgroove, closer to 1950.
Anyway, cheers for yur part in keeping disc cutting alive.
Alan
By the way, looking at the k8 in your photo - it migh be a k10 - if not marked, then it is a modified k8. I see along side the head the advance ball mechanism which was added to the K8 becoming the K10. This places it in the era of the microgroove, closer to 1950.
Anyway, cheers for yur part in keeping disc cutting alive.
Alan