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Hi Can anyone tell me the basics required for head cleaning and general maintenece for a 16 track reel to reel. please can you tell me where to buy any products required also, I seem to be getting a hell of a lot of backing coming off old tapes, I don't know if anything can be done to aleviate...

Hi Just wondering if anyone knows particularly good jobs that go hand in hand with a lifestyle of midnight recording and basically trying to focus on as little else as possible? I heard firemen are more often than you might expect in bands since they do week on week off shifts. But I'm a home...

Hi I know there are a lot of books out there, and I was just wondering if anyone had particular favorites, especially along the lines of historical technical information to do with the Famed studio experamenters. I personally own "Modern Recording Techniques" Which seems like a good general...

Hi Please can some people advise me how best to navigate the probably foolish translation from Tape to Digital. I'm just getting into my recording technique and I will be primarily using tape, but I would like to use my mac as a temporary mastering unit, making CDs and potentially re-mixing...

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Hi I've got to that inevitable microphone question, but I was just wondering if anyone can point me to a good historic archive for mics?? I realise the advice I'm receiving is rather American weighted, and I'm particularly interested in 60s notherthern Britain, just because I'm about up to the...

Hi I know this is a long shot, but I have a studiomaster p7, which has put itself into security lockout mode. (may have been when the guy I bought my open reel off demagnfied it) Anyway I've tried resetting to factory settings and waiting 2 hours, trying again etc, but it simply won't exit its...

Hi I'm just researching mics, and have difficulty placing those new ones that are based upon the look of Neumanns in particular. My suspicion that this (SONTRONICS Helios Tube Mic) Isn't anything special, since it has a story to go with it, and pinched its style from the Bottle mic, but I...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I couldn't really find a place to post this. I was wondering if anyone can help me with my condition of Meekness- leading me to believe the "experts" when they decide to reduce my budget and ambitious...

Hi I couldn't really find a place to post this. I was wondering if anyone can help me with my condition of Meekness- leading me to believe the "experts" when they decide to reduce my budget and ambitious equipment searches to skim smaller ammounts of ash from me in order to learn their...

Hi I'm just getting my stuff together, I've battled the problems of Headphones or Monitors, and seem to have accepted that its monitors only for mixing. My place is fairly small (comparativley) But I still get the impression I want to be looking at far field monitors, even though I can...

Hi I have just joined this forum on behalf of my imminently new Tape Recorder. I was just wondering a few things and came across this group, perhaps I left things too late since I've just handed a cheque over, but it seems the transaction opened the door to this particular fate.. Anyway enough...