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I'm wondering if it's worth converting all the RCA sockets on my M-520 desk over to 1/4 inch T/S sockets?

Here's a question for you guys, My M-520 needs a full set of sheet-metal replacement channel-strip panels (Ch 1-20) cause the original ones have quite a bit of rust and corrosion on them, the other two panels with the Aux-bus, monitor controls are in better condition, I was wondering where I...

My Tascam M-520 has all the shorting-links in place for all the channel send and receive sockets, it should be fairly easy to make-up a set of short RCA patch leads to replace all the missing links, I'm thinking of replacing all the RCA sockets on my M-520 with 1/4 inch TRS types, since RCAs...

Yeah, fortunately I have some test-equipment I can use to service the desk if need-be, like a 20Mhz Dual-Trace Oscilloscope, and Digital Multimeter, the test-tones that the desk has built-in will be useful for signal-tracing when servicing the desk.

Nice score, my M-520 isn't in as good condition as yours is, there is some rust/corrosion on some of the metal panels, I need to find replacement channel-strip panels to sort it out, I haven't powered-up my M-520 yet cause the power cable that attaches the power supply to the desk is missing.

One of my best friends who works as a live sound mixer, here in Darwin NT Australia, recently gave me an old 80's Tascam M-520 mixing desk, plus the rackmount power supply module, for nothing, here's a pic of the desk set-up in my little home studio room I set up in a spare bedroom in my flat.

Usually, to convert an XLR plug from Balanced-to-unbalanced, Pin 3 (Cold, or - phase) is connected to ground/sleeve, Pin 2 (Hot, or + phase) is connected to Tip, and Pin 1 (Ground) is connected to sleeve.

I use a few different Daws in my music making, my main Daw is FL Studio 20 All Plugins Edition, my other Daws are Ableton Live 10 Standard (will be upgrading to Live 11 Suite soon), Reaper, Reason 10, Sundog Song Studio, Audacity, plus some software that works with my Native Instruments Maschine...

Are you using an audio interface with your computer?, if so, are you using the correct ASIO driver for it?, if you are, have you tried adjusting your sample-rate/buffer settings?

Hey everyone, My name is Simon, aka DrNomis_44, I just recently joined the forum and thought it would be cool to introduce myself, okay then, I'm in the process of building a small music-production studio in a spare bedroom in my flat, I've managed to get a few pieces of studio together, I'll...

Hi Everyone, I just joined this forum, anyway, yesterday one of my best friends dropped-off an old 80's Tascam M-520 20 Ch analog studio mixing desk, plus the rackmount power supply, that he gave me....for nothing, I'm going to be doing some restoration-work on it so I can use it in my little...