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    Fostex A8LR - playback on rewind?

    I just picked up a great price Fostex A8 - which has a very strange issue. When hitting rewind or RTZ, sometimes I can hear the tape playing backwards at fast speed, and other times I can’t. It seems to be completely random. Any ideas what this could be? Also, possibly related, sometimes it...
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    Benefit of using Inserts as Direct Outs? (With 8 Track Tape Recorder)

    Just found the manual for the A8LR and it would seem there were two versions! So I have got the 7.5IPS model - still only 2 heads though. Bummer.
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    Benefit of using Inserts as Direct Outs? (With 8 Track Tape Recorder)

    Excuse the artiness, but I've just made myself a little diagram of how I intend it all to work. Anyone see any potential issues with this for a plan?
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    Routing Multiple Sources With Patchbay

    Okay, i'm about to buy my first patch bay for my studio - this probably isn't possible... I'm planning to have 8 direct outs coming from my mixing desk into the patch bay and those would normally go to a tape recorder. Let's now say I had an EQ hooked up through the patch bay. Is there any way...
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    Benefit of using Inserts as Direct Outs? (With 8 Track Tape Recorder)

    Currently I am using an Allen & Heath ZED R16 (analogue desk with firewire output) to track into Logic. I've just purchased a Tascam TSR-8 (8 track reel to reel) to add some extra dimension to my recordings, but don't have any tape to play with yet so I'm in my planning stages. The best way...
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