Potato Head Productions

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Potato Head Productions was the name given to my recording hobby/business started in the late 1970's by my assistant one day at a particular event pictured below. The preferred name was Reel Time Reproductions.

The heart of RTR was comprised of the following:

Teac A-3340SX Reel to Reel
Teac Model 3 Mixer
DBX 155 Type I 4 Channel Noise Reduction System
DBX 128 Compander
ADS L420 Speakers
Sennheiser HD-414 Headphones
Shure SM-57 Microphones
Electrovoice RE-16 and RE-15 Microphones

Also of note is the recording snake which is a box that splits the on stage microphones into two feeds. One for the venue house PA and the other for a separate recording mix. The snake we used was purchased from Gary Faller of KFAT who stated that it was previously used by the Sons of Champlin.

The monitor amplifer is a Pioneer SA-7500 which is still in use today in the shop at classicaudio.com, and connected to the same ADS L420 speakers.

The birth of Potato Head Productions recording a country band at a bar somewhere in Metro San Jose sometime in the early 1980's. Don't know where the bar was, or where the recording is.

The "Remote Truck" is my 1962 Ford Falcon Ranchero affectionately known as "La Bomba" because it was rather loud. A previous owner had installed a "performance" exhaust system on the in-line six cylinder engine.

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The recording setup for a country band called "Tumbleweed" at a Boy Scouts office that we used for a studio.
One of the band members had access.

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Post production in my living room in the early 1980's.

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