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I am new to digital recording. I am using Focusrite 2I2 plus GarageBand for my first attempt (previously used Tascam 4I4 tape). I laid down only 3 instruments Bass guitar, Electric guitar with the digital amps in garageband, and drum track from garageband. Just an instrumental type test track...

Hello Home Recording friends; I may be restarting this hobby! I have the Tascam 404 with a few rack items...voltage regulator...joe meek compressor...Alesis drum machine....something for reverb/delay. All older items I purchased in 1995ish. I hope to be steered to some simple digital...

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I have a good-mint condition Tascam Portastudio 414 mkii plus box. Alesis Powertrip B (rack power strip conditioner), Alesis Microverb III reverb-delay, Aphex 107 Tubeessence mic-preamp, Joe Meek C-2 photo optical stereo compressor (half rack space), Alesis 16 drum machine, and Tascam MTS-30...

I am running a Fender Jazz Bass (mexico) into the rear Guitar input of the Tascam 414...I am getting a slight buzz coming into the recording signal. Enough that I cannot EQ it out. Are the bass pickups poor quality and allowing an signal to pass thru? The buzz increases or decrease depending...

Hey folks; It took three years but I finally maxed out all the input functions with the Portastudio! I have acquired a mic preamp, reverb unit, compressor, drum machine. I play guitar or bass thru either an amp or the input on the rear of the Portastudio. I really enjoy the progress and sound...

I bought a used JoeMeeks C2 compressor and connected it from the effects2 thru the compressor's left channel input and left channel output back to the tascam stereo input...(MONO)... it works but seems a little off. Should I have used Y connectors and connected both the left and right compressor...

I have an old Dual 504 belt drive turntable thats 30yrs old. It's time to retire it and I'm looking for advice on replacing it. Any suggestions for current manufacturers in the $250-$300 range. I went to Needle Doctor website and some of the new manufacturer aren't as familiar as Dual or Garrard.

I'm just about ready to monitor thru something different than my headfones. I have the Tascam 414mkiii and do not really want to get a rack unit amp and higher end monitor speakers. I'm thinking low tech maybe even thru a boombox just to test the mix. Any one have a workable lowcost idea?

Is the "guitar in" for guitar/bass in the back of the 414mkiii equal to a stand alone "direct in box"? Or will you get a higher quality by using a seperate direct in box for your electric guitars?

I picked up this great book "The Complete BEATLES Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn yesterday. It was written by a session engineer at all the major recording dates at their studio at Abbey Road and goes into various informative detail about songs, musicians, track, takes, and mixes. Maybe...

I used my Tascam 414 mk ii to record my southern rock cover group last nite. I used only two shure mics...sm57 covering the drum kit and bass amp...sm58 covering both guitar amps. Routed those two mics into a Aphex 107 mic preamp, then to the portastudio. I am totally impressed with the...

Do You prefer to mixdown your 4 tracks to another cassette deck OR computer harddisk? That is, If you are planning to bring those tracks back into Tascam 414mk iii as stereo tracks and record your vocals over your instrument tracks. Which of the two produces the least generational loss and least...

Ok, What happened to the Paul Reed Smith aka "Birds and Moon Forum" website? It has gone, vanished, not to be found. I'm not talking about the sanctioned Paul Reed Smith Guitars Forum, but the other one that was an unofficial, yet hip site full of guitar and amplifier info.

I was listening to "Penny Lane" in my car today...And realized that almost every darn time I listen to the Beatles songs I hear something new, I mean I've heard 'em since they came out, but there is always something fresh to hear in the song. Then I realized that VERY FEW of there songs are...

I have had my Portastudio for 6 months now, along with a Alesis Drum machine and midiverb iii...so I'm getting the hang of all their capabalities. I mixdown 4 tracks plus the drum machine in stereo to my home pc, which has Sound Forge digital audio program. This is a permanent file incase my...

I have your basic Tascam Portastudio 414mk ii with midiverb 3 for reverb and a mike pre...Anyway, the small 10 x 10 office I record in was carpeted, day bed and sonically dead, even with reverb the lead vocal sounded empty. Low and behold, I moved the mike and mike stand into studio B...

I've recorded 4 full tracks on a Portastudio 414mkII without any effects(dry). Now, I want to mixdown and add reverb by sending thru an Alesis microverb on its way to cassette mixdown. How do I accomplish this and keep stereo seperation?

I have connected my drum machine via midi to my Yamaha SY-77 synth. While playing a keyboard part with the drum machine tracking, I stored the keyboard on the SY-77's sequencer. During playback, the keyboard are 1/2 beat behind the drum machine. How do I get them in synch? I've checked both...

I am miking a DR amp with a Shure sm57 mike into my Tascam 414mk recorder. All is well, except a slight *RF* interference when the mike is near the ground cloth (6-8"). I cannot go farther away than that or I have to boost the signal and disturb the neighbors. Everything in the signal chain is...