tape machine

The kit, including part of a mixing desk and two Revox tape machines, will go on show to coincide with the band's sold-out final show at Birmingham's Villa Park in July.

An Ampex expert from Canada broke down the tape machines and then rebuilt them from the ground up, exactly as they were when Paul used them.

I put the computer on as a tape machine, press record, play for an hour, then stop and listen to what I’ve got.

Although ABC’s studio could be rebuilt from original plans, the devices — walkie-talkies, phones, tape machines, all state-of-the-art technology then — couldn’t be replicated if they were to be used accurately onscreen.

Burnett told me he captured the session on a restored Nagra tape machine as well as a digital recorder.