Previously this is the way I had it set up.
For tracking:
All 16 tape outs to tape in on channels 1 through 16. I'd monitor on the monitor section and artists would have to live with the same monitor mix.
Inputs to the 16track would always be fed from the direct out of the channel. I rarely used the buss to send to tape in favor of the cleaner signal path.
All monitoring was done through the monitor mix section.
Mixdown:
channels 1 through 16 got flipped to tape and the mix was assigned to busses 5 and 6, and 7 and 8 feeding two mixdown machines. One was a cassette (for listening in the car) and one was a dat master.
So busses 6 through 8 became my "stereo buss"
At mixdown this left me with only 4 channels for effects and or sequenced keys.
Maybe I never tapped into the full potential of the desk, but when I first set it up and did all the wiring, that's how I set it up.
Watching your excellent videos on your board made me aware of there being much more potential for the board than I had previously envisioned.
What it all boils down to is this;
I'm getting the board for the price of gas to go to LA, which I have to go to anyway. There is no cash outlay for the desk. While I am down there I am picking up my old msr 16 from my former bandmate, again for no cash outlay. It needs a motor and I am not sure of the current condition of the heads. But hell, at worst, it's a parts deck for my current msr16.
Maybe I'll fix them all up and keep them, maybe fix them up and sell them, maybe use it all, Maybe part them out. Who knows. Too soon to tell. But how can I turn down free gear, that at bare minimum could be parts donors for the gear I have.
