The Device

Open reel-to-reel decks were a beginning of a new era in music history. It was the first option to record anything at home.

The Inspiration
I always impressed about these open-reel decks, they are so massive, powerful and huge while they are also precious and particular. They were a beautiful decoration of the room, as soon as a person entered in, they immediately attracted attention.
The building process of this built was trully hard and extreme difficult. Special techniques had to be used to capture the details, like the quarter distance between tiles, the large reels with holes, the whole inside structure to hold the outside casing or the driving of the reels and VU meter, all of them needed lots of brainstorming and attempts.

The Features
The grid on the top is removable, where a Lego battery could be placed, because the build can be motorized. The reels are rotating by the motor, and the VU meters are also moving assymetrically synched with the rotation. The big knobs can be rotatable and swithes switchable.

The Afterword
Reel-to-reel decks are iconic technical devices that marks an era, this format was used in the first magnetic recording systems. The digital age has replaced these now cult-like beautiful analog machines, but with this Lego built, we can relive this bygone era, it could be an impressive object of a room not just for a LEGO fan but also a HI-FI enthusiast.

Parts count: 2680
Width: 29 cm / 11 inch
Height: 43 cm / 17 inch
Depht: 16 cm / 6.3 inch
Depht: 16 cm / 6.3 inch