Tascam 320B

[qwarks]

I have one of these, en route; via eBay due next week, sometime, and am
wondering if anyone is familiar with them ?

It's my first decent mixer that I'll be using with an Otari MTR-10 1/2" 4trk
machine and mixing down to an older Otari MX55 2track.

As I am anticipating setting up the room I'm wondering how wide the mixer
is ?

Anyone know ?

Any other opinions, of course, are welcome .

[The Ghost of FM]

The M320 is a really great mixer!

They're very clean, very musical and very flexible for routing.

I own two M312B's and have them cascaded together to form a custom M324B.

The width on the M320 is 39 and 1/16th inches wide. 27+1/4 inches deep, 8+11/16ths inches high at the back, where the meter bridge is. 80 pounds.

Cheers!

[qwarks]

Originally Posted by The Ghost of FM

The M320 is a really great mixer!

They're very clean, very musical and very flexible for routing.

I own two M312B's and have them cascaded together to form a custom M324B.

The width on the M320 is 39 and 1/16th inches wide. 27+1/4 inches deep, 8+11/16ths inches high at the back, where the meter bridge is. 80 pounds.

Cheers!

Thanks Ghost !

Not surprisingly it's a heavy brute .

Say, how do you have yours "mounted" ?
A custom-built stand .. or . . . ?

Any suggestions or resources in that regard ?

[The Ghost of FM]

My stand is kind of a custom one too....

I took an un-used keyboard scissor stand and expanded the height adjustment tongue to drop the stand a few inches lower then it would normally go and the placed an office room divider panel,(upholstered and padded with mineral wool), on top of the keyboard stand and the placed the two mixers side by side on top of the panel.

Doing it this way, I get some extra acoustic control, (deadening) in the control room by at least addressing the underside of the mixer which can be a poor influence on the acoustics of the room being that it sits right between you and your monitors and can cause nasty reflections.

If you go HERE , you can see a picture of the mixer on it's bedding.

Cheers!

[qwarks]

Good idea !

I was up until the wee hours looking up whatever I could find out, via, the
archives and it sounds like it should serve a rank amateur like me very well .

I saw a lot of your posts, in particular, praising the 300 series.
I've printed out a few of them for easy reference, too .

Luckily the mixer has only had two owners and was taken care of; it comes
with the manuals and a service schematic. Nice bonuses, I think .

'Nuther dummie question :

The mixer is a 4-buss, from what I could gather .. but it was described, by
the seller as having *8-subgroups*

What exactly is he referring to(or what does he `think` he means..) ?

I'd already saved a couple of photos of your studio setup,BTW ..
Thanks !

[regebro]

The 320 is, if I ave it right, a 4-bus mixer, that means, it has 4 subgroups. It does however have 8 tape returns. Right? That might have made the seller confused.

Maybe it's designed to work with one of those 8-track machines that can record either track 1-4 or track 5-8. Did Tascam make any of those? Fostex 4-buss mixers where made for that anyhow.

[The Ghost of FM]

It does however have 8 tape returns. Right? That might have made the seller confused.

That's the ticket.

A special and additional 8 x 2 mixer for the tape returns which effectively adds 8 more channels at mixdown for effects returns and other goodies like midi synced keyboards and so on.

It basically means that the M320B is really a 30 channel board when you count all the main channels, the tape return channels and effects return channels.

Cheers!

[blues-hacker]

especially good that your getting the manual - as ghost has said, it is truly a full "pro" deck from it's era, built like a tank, super flexible

20 channels, each has direct out, as well as capability of routing to any of the four busses, 8 seperate tape returns, all the channels can be routed to the stereo mix, it will be more flexible than you can imagine.

These are from the era of the M-38 1/2", 8 track R-R machines, and support those class/type machines very well.

Plus "real" pre's in all the channels, and phantom power also.

you're gonna be like a kid at Christmas.

Enjoy !!


b-h

[qwarks]

Originally Posted by blues-hacker

especially good that your getting the manual - as ghost has said, it is truly a full "pro" deck from it's era, built like a tank, super flexible

20 channels, each has direct out, as well as capability of routing to any of the four busses, 8 seperate tape returns, all the channels can be routed to the stereo mix, it will be more flexible than you can imagine.

These are from the era of the M-38 1/2", 8 track R-R machines, and support those class/type machines very well.

Plus "real" pre's in all the channels, and phantom power also.

you're gonna be like a kid at Christmas.

Enjoy !!


b-h

Thanks Blues-hacker ! Your comments are reassuring
Well, according to UPS tracking, my 320B is *out on delivery* so I should get
it in a couple of hours, from now .

I have a Tascam 38, also that needs a wee bit of servicing, that I'll probably
use with this also from time-to-time . I bought an out-board preamp to use
with the board, just to have another flavor(just in case..), bought it from
a forum member,actually.

The pre is a TL-Audio(UK) 2-channel tube pre

I'm waitin for that to arrive, also.

All this waiting !!!!














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