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Yesterday, I did about 10 takes with the guitar. Every take had something wrong with it. Little things like fret buzz or a missed fingering.... things like that. Is there a way to hide these things in the mix? I don’t want a hit record, I just want it to sound good.

Well… here I am staring at my latest configuration of a studio. I look at every piece and can relate it to someone’s help here. When I started, I started with a 4-track Portastudio in a travel trailer. Now I have a setup I think I’m going to really like. A base to start getting better quality...

I was watching this fella, trying to learn a bit about my setup, and he talks about bringing in the box effects out to two channels. It looks to me like he is just making a buss for them, and bringing out only the effects??? Then using his faders to adjust the effect. The only way I can do it...

Its not much to look at, but its mine...... I use this every week as an audio interface to my computer, but I haven't worked or recorded on it for over a year. My wife's baby sister is turning 50, and she wants to record a song for her. This is going to be fun!!!!

After my last success, I decided to try my luck again. My Dad used to say I had a lot of want-to, but that I was dumber than a sack of hammers.... and here's where that gets me into trouble. I was messing with a connector on my Tascam 424, I popped the cover off and the ribbon cable came...

What??? Two projects going at once???? You betcha :) . Actually, I was kind of at a dead end on the 244 Portastudio because I didn't have schematics, but someone on here did, and now I think I can continue that project also.... but for now.... onto the 4 track tape player.... <backstory>...

Well, the ol Covid-19 has chased me into the house. My wife is on immuno-suppresents, so we are not going anywhere.....and I have a couple of projects in the room I would like to get to. 1. A Tascam 244 Portastudio and a 2. Tascam 134 Syncaset First one up? the 244. Backstory- Back when my...

Howdy to all again. <backstory>I’ve got about 40 songs that I’ve written....not good songs....just songs. Today I was trying to remember how to play a couple of em. So being an analog guy, I only had em on cassettes. Sooo...I fired the ol Tascam 234 and began the search. I had labeled the tapes...

We interrupt this thread for a joke that has probably been seen a million times before..... ....we now return you to the intelligent conversation taking place.....

I know..... I know..... it’s not an Ampex, but for two years I have been looking for one. I love my 234, but was looking for a “￾normal” speed cassette for when I geek out and do cassette collaborations through the mail. I’m just waiting until it shows up now..... Here’s the link...

Firstly..... I realize these posts are all kinds of disjointed.... but having just finished a month of recording, I thought I’d better ask the questions while they are still fresh in my mind...... I really got into using the compressor. For me it was for mostly trying to keep the same levels...

This past month I have been doing a bunch of recording. I really like my “sound” except for one thing. Right now I’m recording with two mics at the same time. One (Omni-directional dynamic) on my voice and a condenser mic on the guitar. After fiddling a while, I really like the...

I've been recording both voice and guitar at the same time on some of my recording. Yesterday I noticed the needle just bouncing randomly when I turned on the channels. In this case I was using two mics (one condenser, one dynamic) to record to only the guitar to a subgroup. It was the dynamic...

I'm wondering if its the tapes, but thought I ought to ask y'all about it. I have a Tascam 234 and am using new "high bias" tapes, but the drums are fading and getting louder on the track without me adjusting anything. I thought the head might be dirty, but I've clean and demagnitize them after...

Thanks everyone.... This has been really helpful!!!! I've just done fooling around for about an hour and so far, using the dynamic mic is looking to be winning. The condensor mic is picking up a lot more of the plectrum clicks (which sent me down another rabbit trail.....). I also tried the...

I just realized I may have forgot to mention the elephant in the room........ What I call a guitar, may not be a guitar..... This is a four stringed instrument( essentially) six strings, but tuned Dd-Gg-B-E . Maybe what I ought to be asking is how to get a fuller strumming sound out of a...

(actually...... I can't do it in a DAW either.....) I am having the hardest time getting the guitar to sound in the mixer how it sounds to my ( or my wife's ) ear. On the tape it sounds thin and it seems like I can almost hear every note. I'm also hearing a lot of bass that I don't hear with...

A couple of years ago..... Sweetbeats did a "get to know you video on a Tascam M-106 mixer. Well I watched it a bunch and at the beginning could never figure out while after explaining he would zero out the trims and the faders, then turn all the buttons off etc...... I just kinda waited for him...

When we decided to travel and we were selling the contents of the house I ended up having to decide between my (relatively new) digital multimeter, or the first one I ever bought...... I actually think I kept it and hid it somewhere, but I can't find it..... so I either gave it to one of the...