Se7en-Costanza
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Hey everyone, I'm very new to this forum and making threads, so i apologise if anything I will say is already answered in other posts, but anyway, hopefully i can get a hand with some questions I've been wanting to know about my tape machine and setup.
Firstly, I bought my Tascam ATR-60 8 Track tape machine off ebay, and picked it up from the guys house and he showed me a basic run down on how to use it and to make sure that it all works, so I'm fairly certain everything on it works fine. It came with a bunch of tapes, ampex 456 and 499 mainly, some in decent quality some not, but besides that, i recently bought 6 RMG 900 1/2 tapes in new quality, which is exciting, but i am unsure if i'm meant to configure my machine to those tapes as my machine was previously used to playing 456 and 499 by the previous owner. What am i meant to do? do i need to configure my machine/change the bias or should it be fine? And if i am meant to change the bias, how do i do that?
What tools would i need and how is it done on my machine, will i need to take it apart to do so?
Thanks guys! (sorry if what i am saying sounds naive or dumb, i am very new to tape and really want to get more educated and better at using it, as i eventually want to start a home tape based studio to record my own music).
Firstly, I bought my Tascam ATR-60 8 Track tape machine off ebay, and picked it up from the guys house and he showed me a basic run down on how to use it and to make sure that it all works, so I'm fairly certain everything on it works fine. It came with a bunch of tapes, ampex 456 and 499 mainly, some in decent quality some not, but besides that, i recently bought 6 RMG 900 1/2 tapes in new quality, which is exciting, but i am unsure if i'm meant to configure my machine to those tapes as my machine was previously used to playing 456 and 499 by the previous owner. What am i meant to do? do i need to configure my machine/change the bias or should it be fine? And if i am meant to change the bias, how do i do that?
What tools would i need and how is it done on my machine, will i need to take it apart to do so?
Thanks guys! (sorry if what i am saying sounds naive or dumb, i am very new to tape and really want to get more educated and better at using it, as i eventually want to start a home tape based studio to record my own music).