So, You Think Your Recording Equipment is Up-to-Date?

[Alan Brookes]

So you wonder if you have enough channels for your upcoming project. Go back to 1906 and you would be wondering if you had enough cylinders in stock.
(From the Sears-Robuck Catalogue of 1906).

[Michael Maddex]

Alan, according to an online inflation calculator, the 1906 $10 would be $263.16 in 2016 dollars. Today, in the three hundred dollar neighborhood, you can buy a Tascam 4-channel handheld recorder or a Tascam 8-channel Portastudio. This is a case where I think that I would like today's products much better than yesterday's.

Refs: http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-cal ... ntmoney=10
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/portable ... m-recorder
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/multitra ... ortastudio

NB: Tascam (and MF) is used as an example only. The reader is advised to evaluate any and all brands of his/her choice.

[John Macy]

Or one roll of 2" tape....

[Charlie McDonald]

Go back to 1906....

No thanks.

"Just one word, Benjamin: Zoom."

[Scott Duckworth]

You know, I've been thinking about developing a gramophone horn adapter for smart phones that would also charge the phone, and have Bluetooth remote control. The horn would be acoustically coupled, and the charging would be wireless also. I bet I'll make millions.

I have to at least do as good as they guy that started selling bottle water... from a garden hose in Detroit...