Recent content by ultrajosh

1) If I let the deck idle for a while before recording or playback, it starts to slow down. 2) It also seems to record at a much lower level than indicated on the meters. I recorded several instruments at once last night and the meters showed strong signals during the recording. On playback...

I bought a home-built mixer on eBay, and it's pretty cool, built in the 70's. However, all of the channel strips are missing a few chips from the same 3 sockets. They seem to be associated with the Pan and Echo controls and the Solo/(pfl?) button. The rest of the strip (eq, compressor, buss...

Okay so I have a tape deck that has unbalanced (RCA) inputs and outputs. And I have a hand-built mixer from the 70's. The previous owner pulled a lot of chips so only the pres and eqs and the buss outputs are working. The mixer has all XLR inputs and outputs - 16 mic inputs and 16 line inputs...

I bought a 16-channel "home-built" mixer off eBay for peanuts and I'm amazed to find that it is really well built with what appear to be quality components. Some wacky Canadian locked in a cabin for a long winter with a soldering iron, I guess. I'm hoping to use this mixer for recording and...

I recently bought a Tascam MSR-16S and I'm very happy with it. At the time I thought I was going to buy a TSR-8 so I bought a vintage Sound Workshop 1280 recording mixer ($200 plus $45 shipping!). I just got the mixer yesterday. It's an 8-buss 12-channel mixer and sounds really nice. It...

I just got a 1/2" Tascam MSR-16S and I'm looking at mixdown options. I have a ProTools/MBox I could use but I'd prefer to stay analog if possible. I also have a Tascam 1/4" 44 4-track - would this be a decent mix-down deck? Is there any way to convert it to a 2-track with a head change? What...

I just bought a 1/2" MSR-16S and a batch of used tapes came with it. I don't have a bulk tape eraser so I figured I'd just tape silence over the tape and re-use it. I listened back to see how it worked and I can still hear some very distant music on some of the tracks when I turn them way up...

Tonight (in about 4 hours) I'm meeting with a guy who has both for sale and I plan to come home with one or the other. I was originally looking for a TSR-8 but since he also has the MSR-16 it got me to thinking. It seems to me that 8 tracks on 1/2" would give better quality than squeezing 16...

The Protools Forum is down and I'm about to throw my computer out the window so I'm posting here. And let me say for the record that I hate ProTools and if I could get this stuff into CuBase I would be a happy camper. Anyways, I have an entire album, including different people's mixes, on a...

I've spent the last several months learning CuBase SX on my PC. Then I installed an MBox and ProTools LE so I can mix an album that was tracked and partly mixed in ProTools in a commercial studio. So far so good, I'm finding my way around, I'm able to do most basic mixing tasks, but some of...

I have a Windows XP machine with Cubase SX and an Echo Mia Midi card that I've been using for mix-down and mastering. Now I have a mixing project where some mixing has already been done in ProTools. So I installed the Windows version of Protools LE and set up an MBox and I'm up and running...

I'm in the process of mixing an album at a friend's studio in ProTools on a Mac. I bought a 160GB Firewire ACOM Data external hard drive to store my Protools Files, and also as a way to carry aiff and wav files back to my PC-based home studio for mastering (I have Cubase). I'm also...

I have an Alesis HD24, an 8-channel Presonus pre (w/ ADAT lightpipe out), a bunch of cool analog outboard gear (vintage pre's, eq's, effects, etc), a patch bay, and some decent mics. I monitor with a Mackie 1202 (8 tracks). A good basic tracking setup, but doing overdubs and mixing gets...

When I use /File /Export /Audio mixdown, I end up with 2 separate wav files, one L and orn R - how do I get a single stereo file? I want to get exactly what I'm hearing through the speakers onto a CD for reference - shouldn't be too complicated - but apparently it is. I tried going to an MP3...

I have a REAAALLLYY long "live" session (1.3 hrs) in Cubase SL 2 (it was imported) and I have one particular song I have been messing around with, adding effects, etc. First I want to move just this section to a new project to continue editing, second I want to mix down to something I can burn...