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John, the guy who wanted to record slot sounds came to my house today and recorded about 14 different machines. A really nice guy who, although his job is as a sound engineer in the theatre and he uses the recordings for that, plans to build up a vintage fairground in sound only. He was happy with the recordings and I was more than happy with the payment, which will come in handy as I'm off to Istanbul for a week on Monday.

Nice work, coppinpr. The wider the dissemination of information on this amazing hobby, the better the chance of inspiring the next generation of collectors. We are not owners of British coin operated history, merely custodians.

J Peterson
American Custodian

Speak for yourself John, I own mine, they're mine ... all mine you hear? Hwa ha ha ha!

Unless, of course the rozzers come knocking on my door asking to see all my single machine permits in case I've ever fixed any of them

In which case I'm totally custodian'ing them for a certain Mr John Son of Peter over in Americaland.

John L here: just got back from that session and had a great time recording and chatting. I'll be editing up the recordings over the next few days in between doing the odd thunder effect and leg-sawing-off noises for my current show ("Mr. Foote's Other Leg" at Hampstead Theatre, if anyone's interested) and hope to get some more recordings in the near future. By the way, I have the means to transcribe 78 rpm shellac discs using a transcription turntable with a digital output and am happy to offer that as a service should anyone want to take advantage. It would have to be done here in London, really, as transporting all the kit is a bit tricky, but there would be no charge and the recording would be made available to anyone who wanted them, and probably would also find a home at The National Sound Archive, which would be good thing, I think.

Thanks, and all the best,

John

John, I'm very interested how this "78 rpm shellac discs using a transcription turntable with a digital output" works in practice? I've always found wax or foil recordings produced a much clearer digi output!

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Hi there,

We are an audio outsourcing company, specialising in creating sound effects and music for interactive and linear media. For an upcoming project we would like to gather as many slot machine (casino, gambling) sounds as possible and whilst doing some research online we came across your website. It proves to be very difficult to find museums/collectors who still have either old or new one-armed-bandits etc at home so I was hoping that this forum might be able to help?

Cheers everyone,
Dave

That's no problem at all.
Will you need my Credit Card details?

Hello Dave,

Oddly two years ago* we had Sound Man John with a very similar request on here and one of our members assisted, so I am sure you may get help.
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I for some reason bought three vinyl records from the BBC archive of slot machines and arcades, bit of a novelty.

Not sure whatever happened to Dave, but I had forgotten about the BBC sound recordings I bought. God knows why, as I do not own a record player.

Nice selection they used though and you can picture what most of them were. I wonder how many times any of them were ever used in production work...

Where can I order them?

TF Global Media Enterprises?

However, they may well not be for sale, that is unless he hears the sound of lots of notes

Of course copies can be made.......

Well that didn't take long....

aristomatic wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:18 am TF Global Media Enterprises?

However, they may well not be for sale, that is unless he hears the sound of lots of notes

Wish I was a music mogul

Well that didn't take long....

Yes always interesting how quick people put things on eBay from site posts. Maybe to avoid paying the site a fees for sale or wanted items, but I guess they are not allowed to say.....”I have some if your interested” which is a shame or course. The seller Rob or Rippy is selling them for a lot less than I paid, so a bargain and includes the third in the series of food vendors. There was another one for sale by the original seller still selling thousands on eBay of fruit machines in a pub, but was only interested in the two I shared. Another one of those odd things we buy for no good reason, especially if you can’t even play them.

What a job though, spending your life going around the country with your tape recorder capturing odd noises or background noise in various normal environments for the pleasure of BBC radio and TV productions....in the early days of live productions they had to make the noises on demand using their imagination.

If it is of any help I own two old penny arcades based in Norfolk and you're welcome to contact me re recording the sounds you need, i.e. bandits, allwins, cranes, laughing saliors, working models, two player games, etc.

Pete, as with so many people who join the forum, the person who started this thread never logged in again or responded from their initial post.....one wonders why we bother responding, but you can only but try.

But now you mention it, I must get up to your arcades to listen to the sounds.....

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Hi everyone. I hope this is the correct area to post a thread like this. Apologies if it isn't! I'm currently putting together a little library of casino related sound effects and I thought I'd reach out here if anyone's able to help me out (when lockdown is over!) If anyone has any bandits sitting around and would be alright with me popping over with my microphones, or if you have a semi-reasonable mic yourself, it'd be great to collect the sounds your machines make! I'm interested in getting some old slot arms, pennies being inserted, dropping, reels spinning etc. That clunky mechanical stuff. I'm based in North Hertfordshire.

Thanks in advance!

Hi there, you may get a helpful member offering, but another thought, there are traditional arcades full of machines still out there. I believe someone else about three years ago asked exactly the same thing and one arcade owner offered to help up in Norfolk.. see below thread.*

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Ooh thanks for that, I'll get in touch with him, some other useful leads to follow there too. Going through the suggested threads it seems this comes up every few years haha, I might check how the other sound people got on too. Cheers!

About 5 years ago a chap building a sound library came to me and did much the same thing.

Hi coppinpr, that's great, would you be open to doing that again? I'll dm you