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Highland Sound Company
Phantom Productions, Inc. |
1970
Phantom van at Austin's Lake Travis. This picture shows some of Phantom's first on-location music video work in 1979. The video camera can be seen sitting on the left bench. It was tethered to the VHS deck (bottom right).
The blue cable was the 8 channel 100 foot Whirlwind snake. The decks were the 4 track Teac A-3340 and the Teac A-3000 2 track mastering deck. Also included in the picture is the microphone briefcase, TV monitor, assessory trays, 4 channel dbx, Marantz 5420 cassette deck, Technics amp and JBL speakers.
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Highland
Sound moved to the Odessa Midland area of Texas in the early '70s.
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1971 to 1975
Highland
Sound produced demos for all types of bands, produced wedding recordings and
completed on-location recording for schools
(right) Martin
using his Dad's Sunday School Super's office to record the First Presbyterian
Church choir in Alpine. (Note the mike cords going out the window and the
great quadraphonic headphones).
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1976
 
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Some
of phantom's equipment in the mid '70s included the Yamaha
1020 Receiver for monitoring. Other equipment used for on-location
recording included Teac's 3340. Sony 580,
the Tapco 4400 reverb, Marantz 5420, Pickering
headphones, pair of Sony Electet Condenser mikes, pair of Teac
ME120 mikes and pair of a Sears Guitar Amps for playback on location (they
could fill a room). The Teac 3340 was mounted on a hand truck with the
Sears amp for easier portability. |
1977
 Phantom's
on-location recording set-up. Operating out of the Odessa/Midland, Texas area,
Phantom began completing on-location recordings for bands, schools and churches.
Austin Custom Records contracted with Phantom for albums in the Dallas/Fort
Worth and Houston areas.
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1978
Due
to all the club noise, Martin asked this Odessa band if he could use their
equipment truck for isolation in mixing the live recording. The success of
that set-up resulted in Phantom's creating the van below.
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This
van was customized for on-location recording in El Paso, Texas during the
Summer and Fall of 1978. Phantom
Productions moved to Austin, Texas in November of 1978.
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Inside
the Phantom Productions/Highland Sound van, we used the Teac 3340, a Teac 3300 2 Track, JBL L40 monitors, The
Teac Model 2 mixer with the MB-20 meter bridge, the marantz 5420 for making
a cassette copy for review and the Technics amp..
The CowPokes
(last concert), Viscount Club, El Paso, Texas.  Click
here to listen. |
Highland
Sound Company • Phantom Productions, Inc. moves to Austin, Texas, November
1978
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1979
 
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First
Austin on-location job upon moving company to Austin was at St. David's Episcopal Church.
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Phantom
taped flautist Megan Meisenbach at an Austin Soiree. |
 
Phantom
has always taken on a wide variety of production jobs. The first year in Austin
included everything from The church and private concerts, to Kade I Man at
Antone's (then in North Austin). |
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Phantom
produced an album for Clifford Zirkel's Big Band Sounds of Austin.
Click
here to listen to some songs. |
The Yellow
Page ad above reflects the period we were transitioning to our new name and
look.
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