Full professional performance and features in a compact package — Otari MX-5050

FULL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE AND FEATURES IN A COMPACT PACKAGE

⤢ zoomThe MX-5050 photographed for the ad from a high three-quarter angle, cropped so the right of the machine runs off the scan: a reel of tape on the left hub, the script Otari Electric Co. Ltd lettering arcing across the reel at top right, the wooden left side cheek, the head assembly under its cover with the OTARI badge above it, MX5050 on the transport escutcheon, and a pair of VU meters on the electronics panel below.

OTARI MX-5050

What does a professional recording or broadcast engineer demand in a tape recorder? Above all, he wants consistently high performance, production and editing features, ease of operation and set up, and a reliable mechanism that won't let him down when the schedule gets tight.

If that's what you want too, then take a close look at the Otari MX-5050. It's a full capability professional machine in a compact package. This new recorder is the end result of Otari's ten years of leadership in producing Japan's finest professional recorders and high speed duplicators.

Check these features: gentle, positive tape handling; front panel edit and cue; built-in precision-aligned splicing block; front adjustable bias and equalization; synchronous reproduce for overdubbing; professional connectors, levels, and impedances; 68 dB S/N, 19 dB headroom, 60 dB crosstalk; optional variable speed dc capstan servo; motion sensing; plus many others. And if you need more than two channels, the MX-5050 is also available in four channel (¼ inch) and eight channel (½ inch), the eight channel with dc capstan servo as standard.

OTARI — Otari Corporation, 981 Industrial Road, San Carlos, Calif. 94070, (415) 593-1648 TWX: 910-376-4890. In Canada: Noresco Mfg., Toronto (416) 249-7316.

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