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Hello fellows! I had the chance to grab the OTARI MX5050 MKIII-4 earlier this week. i paid 500$ for it and got 2 tape reels too, not too bad. It plays and record well on all tracks. heads feels pretty neat. cant wait to work the first project on it! I will be glad to get some info from your...

Hey guys I am running a hybrid setup here, the M512 into Tascam 238 and A&H ICE16D to DAW. Gain matching between the 512 and 238 is pretty smooth and well. But if i would record the same signal to DAW i would end up with a fairly week signal. So i find my self cranking up the gain on the input...

Greetings I use the porta02 on my studio, mainly as a sketchbook for various demos. But the last week i have been recording this local band for 4 days using primarily the porta 02 .during the last day, re-recording bass track, i noticed some buzzing issue i never encountered before. I thought...

Hey there I use in my home studio the Tascam MS-16, together with the Tascam M-512(yes i wish it was the 520) and ampex 351 as mixdown tape. Latley iv'e come to realization that i got to make some kind of hybrid set up down here (up untill now i took some tapes to a friend's studio, but that's...

Hey guys I've spent the last few months refurbishing 351-2 model made by Ampex. many hours have been put into it , including refurbishing the transport, recapping, replacing bad R's and cleaning it down to the screw.. This week I finally assembled it all, starting testing it out. The preamps...

heya people. i am moving to a new (old) house, in a quite town. the house is surrounded with a big yard and theres an old shed of about 12sqm. i woul'd love to make a small "live" room, wired to the control room (an extra 10 sqm room inside the house). Mostly, i will record instrumets one by one...

hey you guys (for any AKAI MG614 users around..) my akai mg614 is at the tech shop. the tech has no experience with this specific machine so asked me to consult other people who are familier with the transport section of the MG614. What's happning right now is that the capstan motor starts...

Hey fellas i have acquired some old quirky consumer microphones in the past months. some of them has TS connector, some have DIN, all with fixed 1m-5m cables. I wish to mod all of them to have female xlr socket (and a 5cm cable i guess), so i can simply connect them with any xlr cable. that...

Hey there reel people! A local old man is getting rid of 3 Ampex 351 (one is mono, two are stereo) that are sitting in his garage. he wants for the whole lot 250$. there's extra 150$ for shipping and handling, as it sits at -1 floor and about 45 min drive from my place. i am having serious...

Hey fellas I run a little homy studio, pretty much satisfied with the gear i use (tascam 238, akai mg614 as the heart of it) but i do feel like getting an old Tascam mixing console. and oh boy does this old consoles looks awesome (photo's off google) Theres a wee little studio around my town...

Hola ! So to make it short both the 234 and the 238 got some great specs and lots of love in the analog 'scene'. but one issue that hasn't been adressed afaik is the significant difference in track(s) width use on both machine. the 234 uses the 4 tracks on the cassette just as any other...

Hey guys. i'm looking for a few books to aquire, that will help me understand in depth the whole idea of magnetic recordings, tape recordings and analog workflow as a concept. i study a 2 years sound course, with little to no reference to the good old ways. Lurking around, i found a few options...

so i bought this old echo reverb unit by Electra. model EP 250. this specific unit had been rebranded to the spanish market but afaik it is the same unit, made in japan ofcourse. theres bits and pieces of info around but not too much haha i would date it to early 1980. but im no expert...

So i got into analog recording in the past few months..i'm slowly learning it while doing my bachelor of sound engineering. I'm using both the tascam 234L and the akai mg614. Both are amazing pieces of gear. A question came in my mind while i was testing the sound of my recordings at...

hey i got a chance to grab this old contreversial machine for 70 $ , no money! it seems real clean. but no way to test it, the cable between the power supply unit to the machine is missing. i researched a bit and it seems like the power unit itself provides different voltages to different parts...

yup..thats the issue pretty much. when i engage the dbx switch on my tascam 234 it makes the recording murky as hell, drenched in low freqs, unusable in any way. maybe some calibration is needed?

hola My tascam 234 i got on ebay finally arrived today. Im a bit confused about it after testing it..iv'e got a few tapes i have recorded on my akai mg614 (on double speed). And as far as i know the 234 runs on double speed only.. it seems that the tascam plays it on regular speed :confused...

been spoted on a flea market the guy wants 100$ the units turns on, all lights works, the door cover misses the plastic part but the mechanism seems to be there (can't be properly closed tho), but the inside is what makes me worry..lets put aside the oily mess there, it seems to miss some...

hi you guys this question came up in my mind while shopping for cassettes and lp's on Ebay. So,some labels reissuing cassettes, lp's are reissued like crazy, and a lot of "new" music coming out on lp's too. But, if we put aside the fun of just playing cassettes and lp's, if it has been produced...

I bought a good condition 234 (being shipped atm) , and i have two old peavey mixers. (600s mk1, md bii). Im not sure wether it'll be enough to start recording with? I mean im pretty sure the mixers dont have pre's but not sure bout the 234 . Do i need to buy a seperate pre- unit? Thanks !