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Apologies if this has been posted already but just spotted this: https://tascam.com/us/product/424/top Great news for Portastudio owners. Have a number of questions. Wonder what the price will be, how long they will be available for and if we will be able to buy them in the UK. Also made me...

I was shocked to read a story in the UK press about this fire. It seems to have destroyed a huge number of masters. Not much info yet about the artists involved. What a shame! Anyone have any more info? Report: Universal Music Group covered up destruction of irreplaceable master tapes in 2008...

I've been working with old tapes recently - and have had some fantastic help on the forum from Miroslav and other guys trying to remaster a track from a digital copy made 15 years ago from 40 year old studio tape. This got me thinking about an odd incident from the time of the recordings which...

I'm struggling a bit and would appreciate any advice on this. I have a 24/96 digital copy of a master tape of an album recorded by my late brother 40 years ago this month. I had the copy made 14 years ago after I had made enquiries at the old (long closed down) recording studio. The original 2...

I would like to apologise in advance if this is not the right place for this thread but you guys know the answer to most things so I thought I'd ask! I'm still working with old tapes recorded on my Tascam 244 in '89. I have about half a dozen songs on which track 1 has been used to record the...

I'm getting a fair bit of mains hum when I connect this mic to the Tascam DP32sd I've just bought. I don't get any hum when any of my other condenser or dynamic mics are connected to the DP32 and neither is there any hum when this mic is connected to my DP008EX. If I connect the stereo out jacks...

I've just been listening to a BBC radio programme featuring P J Harvey. It followed her writing the soundtrack for a stage production of "All About Eve" in London. She revealed that she still uses a 244 to compose and record demos - that she doesn't like digital and prefers the character and...

Does anyone know of a laptop I can buy in the UK on which I can easily install XP? I'm asking because I need XP to run my old DAW software and effects, a lot of which are incompatible with anything later. I previously had a Toshiba running Win 7 which I rigged up with a dual boot but this has...

I'm about to buy a DP24 and wonder if someone can please help me. I have a DP01 and DP08ex and would like to import WAV files I've recorded on the earlier models, as well as WAV files created on a DAW. These are all mono files. The question is, would I be able to import the mono files into the...

Just had to post about how much fun I had with my Tascam 244 last week. Having been away for over 6 weeks I took it out, connected up my vintage Shure Unidyne III and got out the old 12-string. Recording in a completely different way to normal, I just set the tape rolling and played an old song...

I guess this effect has been discussed before but I thought I'd mention it. Over the course of the last few months I've been recording a song in collaboration with a friend who lives in Australia (I'm in the UK). The song has great sentimental value as it was written by my late brother over 40...

I guess this has may have been covered before but I couldn't find anything when I searched. It may be another rambling post but here goes..... I spent a few days last week fooling around with old 244 machines. Again I'm amazed at the quality of the recordings - especially on the machine I...

A few weeks ago I noticed that channel 4 on my 244 seemed a bit odd. I had to replace the fuses again for the playback amps and on playing the test tape I made in '82 found the high freq playback response way down. Less than -20dB for a 0dB recording from 20 kHz to 1kHz, then 0dB until 125Hz...

The other day the cable at the mini-jack end of my pair of Sennheiser px100 headphones broke. I love the sound and feel of these 'phones and they have just been discontinued so difficult to buy new. I have a new 3.5mm stereo jack but can't work out how to solder the awful wire they use. Each...

Does anyone happen to know the configuration of the the 3 pickup controls for the Shergold Masquerader 6 string? They are pretty decent guitars made in the UK. Mine dates back to '76. I can't find any clear info about them. The Shergold website gives samples of all 15 pickup variations but...

A bit a a rambling post I'm afraid but I'd love some comments on this! I'm always amazed how some cassette multitrackers can sound - still very happy with my Tascam 244! When cassette 8 trackers became available it seemed unbelievable at the time but they also seemed very capable in good hands...

I bought one of these Chord mics a few months back to see how good they are - at around £12 each in the UK they are a cheap alternative to an SM57. I must say I was pretty impressed - it is difficult to tell it apart from my 60's Unidyne III, which is a bit fragile and kept for special...

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but I'm confused about how the remix was done on this. It appears that Giles Martin had access to all the original tapes. 4 track machines (Studers?) were used for the original recording and tracks were regularly bounced down from one machine to...

This is probably going to sound like a really weird post - and I apologise in advance as it sort of falls between analogue and digital and I'm not sure where to post it! I'd like to be able to use my Tascam US122 mkII USB interface sometimes on battery power and not plugged into the pc. This is...

I'm having problems with my 60's Unidyne III again. I get a big drop in bass response. The only way to cure this is to pull the black plastic top end around the capsule away from the body slightly. It then sounds great but after a few minutes slips back. I wonder if there is a loose connection...