Talk:Scully Recording Instruments

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Scully 24 track? Did it actually exist?

I have found several pictures of King Crimson recording at Command Studios in London in 1974 while working on the album Lark's Tongues In Aspic. Some pictures show members of the band standing in front of what appear to be 3 racks of 8 Scully record/playback modules, making a total of 24. The pictures also show what looks like a 2 inch Scully transport just below the equipment racks. To my knowledge, 16 track machines were the biggest the company made, and they never actually built a 24 track recorder. Is it possible that they made a one off 24 track machine? Or, more likely it seems that the engineers at Command re-used amplifiers and a 2 inch transport from other Scully machines and put them together with new 24 track heads. Does anyone know the whole story? Would like to hear from someone who worked at the studio. Thx. 24.143.109.40 (talk) 17:38, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

12-track 2-inch machine?

Another very interesting aspect of the Scully story could be this. The article on Bell Sound Studios says:

"The studio's research and development team developed an innovative 12-track 2-inch tape recorder that offered higher-quality recording than the 8-track 1-inch and 16-track 2-inch recorders in use at other studios."^[1]

The picture included with this article from 1968 shows a picture of the 2-inch 12-track machine in use at Bell. It has what clearly looks like 2 racks of 6 Scully record/play amplifier modules. Also, shown beneath the equipment racks is what looks like a 2 inch tape transport. I can't identify the transport design but it has a sloping top plate angled forward. Can anyone identify who made such a 2 inch transport? It does look a bit like the custom 16 track machine that was used at TTG Studios in Los Angeles in 1968. But it definitely seems to be a different design than Ampex or other Scully machines.~2025-38605-43 (talk) 19:15, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The TTG 16-track shown here was apparently a custom design from Tom Hidley and MCI. It also has a similar looking sloping top plate to the Bell Sound machine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/779220482206901/posts/1638217809640493/

^ Fujii, Mort (24 February 1968). "Bell Sound's Manufacturing Geared to Flexibility" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved 24 August 2022. - Bell Sound Report (insert section) p B-10

[1] Fujii, Mort (24 February 1968). "Bell Sound's Manufacturing Geared to Flexibility" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved 24 August 2022. - Bell Sound Report (insert section) p B-10

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