Recent content by WhinyLittleRunt

I just want to test the waters... if you guys who have had or currently have a Tascam 388 and you simply don't use it much (in my case it hasn't been used in at least a year, probably 2), would you be comfortable selling it to make some money or do you think you'd instantly regret it? I'm not...

I need a little help; I reorganized my basement studio 'live' room and I'm running into confusion when it comes to patchbay usage... I bought an old rolling rack case from a buddy of mine a while back and just got around to using it. In the rack I have my Yamaha P2100, Yamaha SPX900...

I came here with a question about something but decided I should probably post some pictures of my progress... I'm in the middle of doing a full-on recap of the unit. Just for some history, I got this unit probably 6 or 7 years ago (maybe more I can't remember) from a friend of mine who I...

I pulled my 244 out the other day and after it destroyed a cassette, realized the heads were stuck and won’t drop in stop mode. I also noticed the control motor for the head assembly wasn't spinning when the machine is powered on. Belts have been replaced already. I pulled the belt off the...

I think I know where to go with this, but I wanted to bounce it off you guys first to see if I'm on the right track (no pun intended). This 38 has been a thorn in my side for so long and I think I finally have it 'working' to the point of actually using it. A friend of mine gave me a reel of...

Boy, where do I begin... I guess for anyone who's willing to listen, I'll write it anyway because I'm sure the act of writing it will clear my head some. I wrote a huge post back several months ago regarding my divorce but I'm going to spare myself the aggravation of acting as if anyone is...

I haven't written much about this since it happened, but I found myself in the divorce boat :facepalm: And i'm pretty bummed out about it. This is a woman I've been with for 10 years and had 2 kids with (more on that in a sec) during our marriage. we did everything right; married, bought the...

Guys, I want to offer this here and see if anyone is interested. I've recently been going through an unexpected divorce and while I don't need to sell anything, I may have to downsize if I don't keep my current house and know I just won't have the time to tinker with it anymore so... I'm...

Curious what you might think this is - if I let the deck sit for a while, or overnight, I'll go back to play the tape but the headstack just doesn't want to engage. I pulled the little cover off over the heads and forced it manually, and it then starts working, so I'm 'assuming' something needs...

I thought I would publicly honor Mr. Sweetbeats for helping me get my Tascam M-308 mixer back in working order, because while I'm super handy with a soldering iron, I just don't have the skill to figure out schematics. Just a little rambling history, if you will.... the original problem was...

I know it's been discussed before but I was thrown off about some of the talk regarding making sure you do not record in Repro mode while using the 388 mixer. I didn't think you recorded in Repro mode technically anyway? I want to get clarification on that either way and what the dangers are...

(I will preface this with: if this is in the wrong category I apologize but let me know in the future where such threads should go) So I have this Tascam 38 and M-308 mixer that I've been hanging on to and really don't use. The mixer, besides one of the tape input channels, works fine. The 38...

Guys, I need to get a digital oscilloscope for my workbench. I have a Tek 2230 that I got for free from one of my clients a while back, and I 'guess' it works fine but I'd never really know because I have nothing else to compare it to, and it was left in storage for a number of years and is...

I have a 12 year old Firepod I want to upgrade. I am interested in the Focusrite Clarett 8pre but not sold on the Thunderbolt idea just yet; they seem few and far between. USB 2.0 would work fine seeing as how I'm coming off a Firewire 400 interface, adapted into my 2011 Mac Mini i7. I've...

I've had a D1000e for a while now that the capsule shakes around because the foam deteriorated and my guess is the previous owner scraped out whatever was in there. What kind of foam could I use to replicate what was originally in there? I'd put any old foam in there but I don't want to create...