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When mixing down vocals, drums, bass and guitar, are there any tricks to use to get good separation in the final mix? I'll be using a Tascam 1/2" reel to reel. The tracks will be....trk 1-vocal, trk2-vocal, trk3-bass guitar, trk4-guitar, trk5-overheads, trk6-toms, trk7-kick, trk8-snare.

I need a new loom for my reel to reel. Are there any phono-to-jack looms worth considering, or do they all sound the same?

I am after some advice on buying an eight channel mixer fir playback in the rehearsal room. Something small and cheap would be ideal . Do those Line Mixers do the job that I need?

Does anyone know if you have to flip the phase on a single overhead mic for a drum kit? In the coming weeks I aim to record a demo with my band , using a Tascam 58 and very basic gear. The drums I will be recording using a couple of mics on the kick, and have the snare and Tom's close mic'd . I...

Does anyone know if you have to flip the phase on a single overhead mic for a drum kit? In the coming weeks I aim to record a demo with my band , using a Tascam 58 and very basic gear. The drums I will be recording using a couple of mics on the kick, and have the snare and Tom's close mic'd . I...

I have bought a pair of Mackie CR3 Monitors, but without the speaker cable that joins the two speakers. Any suggestions which cable to buy and how far apart would they be best positioned in a home studio? Thanks.

Does anyone know how to record four tracks at once on a Yamaha MT3X? I did try and set the buttons to “tape”, panned track 1 to the left, track 2 to the right, track 3 to the left and track four to the right. But on playback the sounds were mixed with each other.

Does anyone know of a splitter box of any sort that would split the signal from the output of a minidisc player? At present my band plays gigs with the use of a backing track with keyboards and bass on. Is there any way the Minidisc outputs could feed my onstage monitor and the P.A. mixer...

I own a Teac 80-8 that needs some new SM911 tape. Are there any videos on the web showing how to spool some pancake onto reels of an eight track?

Does anyone know how you can guage how much signal is going into a DBX 266XL? On other comps I have there are input meters so you can see if youre overloading it or the signal is too low. Thanks.

Does anyone know much about the Tascam 38? I already own a Teac 80-8 and know someone who wants rid of a 38 and I want to know if theres much of a difference between the two machines. Thanks.

I have a chance to buy a Pro Tools Recording Studio for a good price. I have tons of analogue half inch tape that I want to convert to digital, and this seems a good chance to do something about it. What else would I need to buy if I got it?

I own a few cheap Behringer compressors that I plan on using to track drums during the recording of my bands demo. I have tried several times to get anything decent sounding, when tracking the toms and snare. Poor results. Is it better to limit these instead of trying to compress them? I assume...

I have a Teac 80-8, that I want to use to tape my band. I was wondering about outboard compressors, but have recently read about recording signals to tape, "hot". Can I use this method for everything? We are drums, bass, guitars, vocals doing the heavy rock stuff. What isnt advisable to tape "hot"?

I was wondering if its possible to set the controls of a compressor to act as a limiter while tracking drums? I have only the one stereo compressor to use on three toms of the drumkit. Is it possible to patch it into the aux inputs of the mixer, rather than use the insert points? How would I...

Where would you pan the guitars in a mix, if toms are panned to 10 o clock and two o clock?

I would like some advice on gain staging please. I have a Teac 80-8 that I want to use to record our bands demo. So as regards getting the best possible, quietest signal onto tape, is it best to set all the input volumes to 6 or maybe 7? Then adjust everything else, the mixer etc.. to suit? Any...

How long has multiband compression been around, and what did they do before it hit the scene?

How do you add "air" to overheads when tracking drums? Do some use a reverb to do it, if so, what kind of reverb?

Can anyone recommend a loom I need to get? As usual, phono to jack. Its for my Teac 80-8.