Recent content by sam humans

That's A LOT of absorption for a small room. Hard to say w/o pics, but I'll hazard a guess that your room is too dead, giving you that boxed in-tone. Any diffusors up? I made a few of these a while back and it made a fantastic difference in the room sound on all my tracks. More open, natural...

You're right, I'd much prefer to keep my 16 track heads in addition to finding 8 track heads, as it's the versatility of having both sets of that drew me to the MX70 in the first place. I do, however, have a parts machine that is mostly complete if you need parts, including enough channel cards...

Ya, I noticed that too! Also, I've no experience with the GAP 73, but understand it to be a single channel unit. Nice thing about the RNP is that it's 2 channel, perfect for stereo overheads etc. And like most FMR stuff, price vs. performance is very, very good.

I must respectfully disagree with this statement. Tried and true experimentation, using ones ears as the only judge, has shown over and over again that subtleties of sound can and absolutely are influenced by a winning mic/preamp combo. So while there is no one right answer, there most certainly...

What's your room like? Is it treated at all? Over the years I've found that a poor sounding room, therefor a poor sounding room mic, does exactly as you describe and smears the stereo image. The best solution I found was building some quadratic diffusers. Really brings most rooms into a...

FYI - you can download tones from Analog Rules!!! Pro-Audio Parts and Service then burn a CD or dump to your Ipod or phone or whatever. Hell, put 'em on cassette if you want! (Analog Rules is a great sight to check out regardless, chock full of good info...)

I've looked into this a bit. In my case to use my 1/2" 4 track as a mastering deck. One of the problems you run into is having every channel of your electronics calibrated perfectly... if not, you're going to have some pretty off sounding albums. I would consider this very important. Also, I...

We all know that plugins and tape machines are tools to be used to make recordings. Yes, a good engineer uses whatever tools are at his/her disposal. All true. Recording is equal parts art and science and a beautiful thing when done right, regardless of medium. Ah-hem... A good tape machine...

Ah yes, I should be more clear. I have the 16 track heads, they are in fine shape. I've just always been curious about the sonics of the wider track width and want to try it for myself. One of the reasons I chose the MX70 over a few other candidates was it's (relative) ease of conversion between...

I'm looking high and low for 1" 8 track heads for my MX70. So far have checked with JRF, Sprague, Audio Village, Analog Rules, and Otari Japan. This machine has been discussed on this board in the past, was hoping one of you fellow tape lovers would either A) have heads to sell or B) have some...

hi zhou. i have an opportunity to buy a Tascam ATR 60/16. But it does not have the function remote! Were you able to find or make one of your own? If so, what Model Number is the correct remote? Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks, -Sam

i do this all the time with an ampex atr 700 2 track tape machine. bounce a good stereo take to tape, hitting it hard, and then back into the machine. mix with raw drum tracks to taste. viola! tape compression sounds great! or if your on a good mixer with a few subgroups, assign the drums to...

use a simple compressor. start with these ideas, hopefully they do the trick: 1. lower the "threshold" until you are reading at least 3dB of compression during the loudest parts. more is fine too, experiment. but remember, the compressor does nothing at all until you've exceeded the threshold...

try vocals in the bathroom or the kitchen or some other room with an acoustic character that you like or at least find interesting. bedrooms do not typically have good character to them. also, have the singer hold still(ish) and move the mic up and down. i know it sounds a little weird, but if...

pzm's are fantastic mics. as i recall, the reason for them being mounted on their own surface was because there's less chance for phase incorrectness that way. for example, when you set up a room mic for recording drums or whatever, if you put that mic close to the floor there will be much less...