Recent content by Findlay

Great to hear from you Level Anything. Hope you are well. Just seen your reply. Looks like these are going to cost $35 each and not available in the UK. Thanks for the heads up about these not being true Type II. I'm going to stick with re-biasing to my Maxell Type 1s, around $1 each. Sort of...

Az I am wondering if it is really a cobalt type I. I get such good results with rebiased type I it would make sense. Easy enough to rebias, takes about 15 minutes

Apologies if this has been posted already but just spotted this: https://tascam.com/us/product/424/top Great news for Portastudio owners. Have a number of questions. Wonder what the price will be, how long they will be available for and if we will be able to buy them in the UK. Also made me...

I was shocked to read a story in the UK press about this fire. It seems to have destroyed a huge number of masters. Not much info yet about the artists involved. What a shame! Anyone have any more info? Report: Universal Music Group covered up destruction of irreplaceable master tapes in 2008...

I've been working with old tapes recently - and have had some fantastic help on the forum from Miroslav and other guys trying to remaster a track from a digital copy made 15 years ago from 40 year old studio tape. This got me thinking about an odd incident from the time of the recordings which...

I'm struggling a bit and would appreciate any advice on this. I have a 24/96 digital copy of a master tape of an album recorded by my late brother 40 years ago this month. I had the copy made 14 years ago after I had made enquiries at the old (long closed down) recording studio. The original 2...

Thanks jp. I've just tried the experiment of recording the drum store code restored on Roland directly from the original tape on the DP-32. When I play this back into the Roland it verifies and works ok. I've posted this file which seems to differ a bit. It seems there is something about the...

Thanks for the reply jp. I recorded the drum store tone on the Tascam DP-01 fx as WAV (16/44). I've posted a screenshot of a magnified part of the recording in Audacity. It looks doesn't look much like a square wave - maybe this is the problem?

I would like to apologise in advance if this is not the right place for this thread but you guys know the answer to most things so I thought I'd ask! I'm still working with old tapes recorded on my Tascam 244 in '89. I have about half a dozen songs on which track 1 has been used to record the...

I'm getting a fair bit of mains hum when I connect this mic to the Tascam DP32sd I've just bought. I don't get any hum when any of my other condenser or dynamic mics are connected to the DP32 and neither is there any hum when this mic is connected to my DP008EX. If I connect the stereo out jacks...

I've just been listening to a BBC radio programme featuring P J Harvey. It followed her writing the soundtrack for a stage production of "All About Eve" in London. She revealed that she still uses a 244 to compose and record demos - that she doesn't like digital and prefers the character and...

Does anyone know of a laptop I can buy in the UK on which I can easily install XP? I'm asking because I need XP to run my old DAW software and effects, a lot of which are incompatible with anything later. I previously had a Toshiba running Win 7 which I rigged up with a dual boot but this has...

I'm about to buy a DP24 and wonder if someone can please help me. I have a DP01 and DP08ex and would like to import WAV files I've recorded on the earlier models, as well as WAV files created on a DAW. These are all mono files. The question is, would I be able to import the mono files into the...

Well I've had a few drinks and built up a bit of courage to post the track.... It is just a quick demo all done in 20 minutes but it was such fun... The lead vocal was rather hot and the output clipped the Terratec Phase II digitiser I used to transfer the tracks a few times even on minimum...

Just had to post about how much fun I had with my Tascam 244 last week. Having been away for over 6 weeks I took it out, connected up my vintage Shure Unidyne III and got out the old 12-string. Recording in a completely different way to normal, I just set the tape rolling and played an old song...