[78-L] Double turntable turns 60 next week

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Tue Mar 20 18:56:23 PDT 2012



On 3/18/2012 7:19 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On a live drama you'd often need two or three sound effects records almost
> simultaneously, say if one was traffic, another was police sirens and third was
> automobile crashes. And with two arms and one record you could keep a
> continuous sound for an entire scene since each arm had its own pot. The
> turntables also had variable speeds.
>
> dl

We used "sound trucks" with three continuously variable speed turntables 
with two arms on each table.  The thing in this video is a much smaller 
portable.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

>
> On 3/18/2012 7:03 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> What's the use of the third arm? Is it to able to add two sound effects
>> from the same side simultanously while the music is played on the other
>> disc?
>> Kristjan
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2012-03-18 23:48, David Lennick wrote:
>>> Looks like a variant on the Cocktail Bar, a device used by sound effects men in
>>> radio. That had three turntables and arms that could reach between each pair of
>>> platters.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 3/18/2012 6:21 PM, Michael Valentiner wrote:
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfkVFuigEI&feature
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>> Michael Valentiner, Minneapolis, MN
>>>> michael.valentiner at gmail.com


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