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Phil
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Not mineAmpex MM 1000 2 (North Jersey)

Date: 2010-04-20, 6:11PM EDT
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MM1000

I have an Ampex MM1000 30 ips/15 ips..amazing..works perfectly..
Has an amazing background..Recorded "Killing Me Softly" as well as many other famous musicians and hits!

I am in NJ

bob
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The MM1000 was a tank.

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The Grateful Dead dragged one of the first (if not the first) MM1000 out on the road with themselves a long, long time ago.

http://furmanhistory.com/

Once I learned the ropes I was asked to go on the road with the Dead to help with live recording. I was utterly thrilled at this opportunity, and jumped at the chance. I would be working with Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor, and Wizard, another tech who came to Alembic soon after me. Bob was the Dead’s producer and Ron Wickersham’s partner in Alembic; Betty was the Dead’s original recording engineer. At the time, they were a couple, though that didn’t last long. My role was to pack and unpack recording equipment, set it up and calibrate it, set record levels when the band did their sound checks, and change tape reels between songs so that no music was missed. This was no small job, since we recorded most concerts on gigantic reels of 2" magnetic tape on an Ampex MM-1000 16-track, a then-state of the art system that Ron had repackaged into flight containers so it could be air-freighted to each Dead venue. A full reel weighed about 30 lbs, and those heavy weights had to be handled with great care and speed. At 30 inches per second, the tape flew by and reels had to be changed frequently.

EDIT: Looks like the Dead used, at least initially, the second MM-1000. Remember that they were just a hoot 'n' a holler from Ampex's Redwood City HQ :)

http://www.alembic.com/family/history.html

EDIT^2: more :)

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=256492

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Nice, that is sweetbeat's machine (from another forum) in that first linked photo I beleive!
 
I know, old revived thread, but today, 7/8/2017, I saw 2 of these MM-1000's, and the owner said he has another in a warehouse. The BIG KICKER, they were previously owned by LES PAUL, (full documentation proving his ownership, and bought in Beverly Hills CA, at the Les Paul Estate Auction).
 
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I know, old revived thread, but today, 7/8/2017, I saw 2 of these MM-1000's, and the owner said he has another in a warehouse. The BIG KICKER, they were previously owned by LES PAUL, (full documentation proving his ownership, and bought in Beverly Hills CA, at the Les Paul Estate Auction).

Thanks Jcamero, can you shoot me an email? love to get those details... hutchinson.j.matthew@gmail.com
 
A little googlin' and I found this with a winning bid of $13,750:

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