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Spaceways, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 24, December 1941
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SPACEWAYS 17 SO YOU WANT TO RECORD? "Green Seal" professional blank.) If you are going to keep your recordings you can use a semi-professional, but if you are going to circulate them about the country, better get regular professional ones. They are .051" thick and heavy enough to stand a good deal of wear and tear that will accompany the shipping. For your practise discs, however, buy the cheaper ones. This will keep your cost as low as possible. Now that you have your recorder and your blanks, you will hurry home to try it out. But wait, don't be in such a hurry. Have you needles yet? No, regular steel needles won't do. You'll have to get special ones for the cutting head. These will run you anywhere from 59c for a package of five steel needles to $6 for a single sapphire cutting needle. The steel needle (59c and 95c for package of five; and $1 for package of three) will last about twenty minutes. After that it must be replaced. The recordings will not be as quiet and brilliant as with a better needle. The Stellite needles (89 c one can be resharpened; 60 c one cannot; $1.18 one has long life--three to five hours) will last you from two to two and a half hours. These needles can be resharpened and used again. The final needle we have to consider is the sapphire, costing $6. These can be used for five hours at a time, and can be resharpened. The recording is quieter, more brilliant in the highs. These, though the initial cost is higher, prove in time to be really the most economical. Now for playback needles. This will depend a lot on the weight of your reproducing head. If it is a modern head of about 2 1-2 oz., then a regular steel needle can be used, but with care. There are splendid needles for playing back acetate blanks with minimum of wear. These run anywhere from 10 c for a package of fifty (Wilcox-Gay needles) to $3.60 for a single sapphire needle. The latter, however, will give you from 6,000 to 10,000 plays. If you bought a machine with the new Astatic feather-weight pickups with lifetime built-in sapphire needle, your needle worries are over, as it never needs replacing. This pickup sells at $9.70 and puts but one ounce pressure on your precious recording. Did you get a microphone with your assembly? You did? Well, then we are ready to go home. You didn't? Well, how much money have you left to spend on one? You have to have it so you can record voices or music. It will run you from $5.85 for a crystal hand mike to $29.11 for a good dynamic mike, floor model. You can buy a floor model crystal mike at Allied Radio for as low as $17. Or you can buy the mike separate from any stand and buy the stand you wish, for the hand, for the table, or for the floor. Table stands run from $1.10 to $2.95; floor stands from $2.75 to $8.75. Now that we have everything, we might as well go home and get the equipment up. This purchasing of equipment has been quite a job--hasn't it?--and I imagine it might be best to leave the actual setting up and first tryout for another day. The next article in this series will be "How To Get the Most from Your Recorder", and will describe in detail the operation of your equipment and the making of your first recording. A COLLECTOR SPEAKS (concluded from page 15) at the moment, and it's hard to tell when I'll get at them again. And the current war between the broadcasters and the music-publishers makes it difficult-- impossible, rather--for me to get away from the radio station, since the handling and checking of our music is my exclusive responsibility. Still, I hate to see Stanley Weinbaum's lovely verse go unpublished. " The only thing I can do is to write Mother directions for locating the poem...and that will be some job! because I'm not sure where it is myself! " Best of luck to you, Larry--if I may address you thus, being an inactivemember of the science-fantasy fraternity. I'll do what I can to find the Weinbaum gem, but don't be too hopeful for an early discovery, and please don't be too disappointed.
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SPACEWAYS 17 SO YOU WANT TO RECORD? "Green Seal" professional blank.) If you are going to keep your recordings you can use a semi-professional, but if you are going to circulate them about the country, better get regular professional ones. They are .051" thick and heavy enough to stand a good deal of wear and tear that will accompany the shipping. For your practise discs, however, buy the cheaper ones. This will keep your cost as low as possible. Now that you have your recorder and your blanks, you will hurry home to try it out. But wait, don't be in such a hurry. Have you needles yet? No, regular steel needles won't do. You'll have to get special ones for the cutting head. These will run you anywhere from 59c for a package of five steel needles to $6 for a single sapphire cutting needle. The steel needle (59c and 95c for package of five; and $1 for package of three) will last about twenty minutes. After that it must be replaced. The recordings will not be as quiet and brilliant as with a better needle. The Stellite needles (89 c one can be resharpened; 60 c one cannot; $1.18 one has long life--three to five hours) will last you from two to two and a half hours. These needles can be resharpened and used again. The final needle we have to consider is the sapphire, costing $6. These can be used for five hours at a time, and can be resharpened. The recording is quieter, more brilliant in the highs. These, though the initial cost is higher, prove in time to be really the most economical. Now for playback needles. This will depend a lot on the weight of your reproducing head. If it is a modern head of about 2 1-2 oz., then a regular steel needle can be used, but with care. There are splendid needles for playing back acetate blanks with minimum of wear. These run anywhere from 10 c for a package of fifty (Wilcox-Gay needles) to $3.60 for a single sapphire needle. The latter, however, will give you from 6,000 to 10,000 plays. If you bought a machine with the new Astatic feather-weight pickups with lifetime built-in sapphire needle, your needle worries are over, as it never needs replacing. This pickup sells at $9.70 and puts but one ounce pressure on your precious recording. Did you get a microphone with your assembly? You did? Well, then we are ready to go home. You didn't? Well, how much money have you left to spend on one? You have to have it so you can record voices or music. It will run you from $5.85 for a crystal hand mike to $29.11 for a good dynamic mike, floor model. You can buy a floor model crystal mike at Allied Radio for as low as $17. Or you can buy the mike separate from any stand and buy the stand you wish, for the hand, for the table, or for the floor. Table stands run from $1.10 to $2.95; floor stands from $2.75 to $8.75. Now that we have everything, we might as well go home and get the equipment up. This purchasing of equipment has been quite a job--hasn't it?--and I imagine it might be best to leave the actual setting up and first tryout for another day. The next article in this series will be "How To Get the Most from Your Recorder", and will describe in detail the operation of your equipment and the making of your first recording. A COLLECTOR SPEAKS (concluded from page 15) at the moment, and it's hard to tell when I'll get at them again. And the current war between the broadcasters and the music-publishers makes it difficult-- impossible, rather--for me to get away from the radio station, since the handling and checking of our music is my exclusive responsibility. Still, I hate to see Stanley Weinbaum's lovely verse go unpublished. " The only thing I can do is to write Mother directions for locating the poem...and that will be some job! because I'm not sure where it is myself! " Best of luck to you, Larry--if I may address you thus, being an inactivemember of the science-fantasy fraternity. I'll do what I can to find the Weinbaum gem, but don't be too hopeful for an early discovery, and please don't be too disappointed.
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