Introduction & Features

MX-5050 COMPACT PROFESSIONAL RECORDER↑ TOP

ONE AND TWO CHANNEL VERSIONS

• Full capability professional machine.
• Exceptional signal-to-noise and crosstalk.
• Front panel edit and cue.
• Motion sensing control logic.
• Full-track also plays back half-track stereo.
• Selective reproduce for overdubbing.
• Bias adjustable for high energy tapes.
• Front accessible bias, EQ, operating level.
• Hysteresis synchronous or dc servo capstan.
• Built in test and cue oscillator.
• 600 ohm, +4 dBm output, XLR's.
• Remote control for all transport functions.

⤢ zoomThe MX-5050 in its walnut cabinet, 10½-inch Otari Electric Co., Ltd. reels fitted

Introduction↑ TOP

Since its introduction in late 1974, Otari's MX-5050 Compact Professional Recorder has proven its value where it counts—in day-to-day use in hundreds of broadcasting, recording, and educational applications. Customer acceptance and repeat orders tell this recorder's story better than we can: it is a full professional recorder in a compact package with the performance, features, and reliability you expect from the larger machines.

Basically, it has 10½ inch reels, three motors, four heads, and 15/7½ or 7½/3¾ ips tape speeds. It is available in one, two, four, and eight channel versions. (This sheet covers the one and two channel versions. Ask for Specification Sheet S-108 for the four channel, or S-110 for the eight channel.)

The full track version is designated MX-5050-FL and is intended primarily for broadcast use. It has 7½ and 3¾ ips tape speeds with three-full track heads[sic] plus an extra half-track reproduce head and reproduce amplifier to play back half-track stereo. The two channel version is called the MX-5050-2S (half-track stereo) or MX-5050-4S (quarter-track stereo). It has either 15/7½ or 7½/3¾ ips speeds, and also has four heads. The three regular heads are either half or quarter-track at your option. The extra head is for reproducing tapes in the opposite (quarter or half) track format.

Both MX-5050 versions share the bulleted features above, plus these: gentle positive tape handling, built-in precision aligned splicing block on head cover, separate line and microphone input level controls, capstan located on non-oxide side of tape, record lockout control, optional road case or rack mounting adaptor, variable or fixed output (at standard operating level—switchable between +4 or −10 dBm), optional low impedance microphone transformers, and balanced line input and output transformers.