possibly a post mortem...

[ramshackality]

hey, i bought a 488mkII from a gentleman on ebay, initially i thought the stumbling blocks were my own inability to use the thing having had to upgrade on my shattered fostex x24....however i have a sneaking suspicion that the problems may not just be my technical confusions. when i record say a guitar on track 1 it goes well... but then when i record a vocal on track 2 the recording on one doubles up and records itself onto track 2 also, boosting the levels badly... now is this crosstalk? do i need to clean the heads? all i know is it is really frustrating. also on a few of the tracks, 3,4, and 8 i can hear the instrument when it is set to line in but nothing gets recorded when i try recording. i realise this is most likely a faulty machine i have bought however any feedback would be appreciated. thankyou

[ramshackality]

also i got it without a manual....

[The Ghost of FM]

You might be inadvertently dubbing the first track over to second track because of a monitoring error on your part.

Getting the manual would be my best recommendation.

Cheers!

[The Ghost of FM]

Here's the link to the manual.

http://home.comcast.net/~rbbyrd/488manual.pdf

Cheers!

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Ghost:

You know your toast about the 488.

I think maybe Ramshack.... did not put the recorded track in the CUE mode before trying to dub.

I had a couple of 488s, good SIAB and a good learning tool.

Always enjoy reading your expertise.

Green Hornet
Think Spring

[A Reel Person]

It just sounds like our friend is not using the CUE system properly, ... & therefore is getting unwanted bleed & track-bounce. It's a very common mistake for new Portastudio users.

Thanx for the PDF link to the 488mkII manual! That'll always come in handy!

[ramshackality]

much thanks to all, i could tell it was something to do with monitoring but the fact i have no clue what you were talking about with queing would indicate you are right lol. thank you very much for the link, i will go into these murky depths. used to have a fostex x24, that was like choose track hit record.....so here goes. thanks again