eek! I just bought a Ross 4 track..

[filmdude11]

Heya fellas,
I saw this Ross 4x4 thing on ebay and it looked pretty sweet so I bid on it. I didn't really think I would win it because I only bid about $75 and I thought it'd go for higher because they seem pretty rare. Well I won it for $66..

I found almost nothing online about it. Does anyone here have one?

I was attracted to it because it has VU meters, individual punch in/out buttons, left and right master faders, and indvidual tape ins and outs!

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Looks pretty cool, I hope it doesn't suck though..

Corey

[The Ghost of FM]

I remember seeing ads in Mix magazine for it back in the 80's. The ads were pretty short on detail and to be honest, it kind of seemed like a "me too" kind of product, copying the more famous TASCAM Portastudios of the day. Fostex was the next most popular to TASCAM and then after that a bunch of smaller market companies jumped on the bandwagon like Sansui, Marantz, AMX, Audio Technica and handful of others.

Looking at the jack panels on the front and rear, it seems to be a pretty basic unit and the piano key tape transport buttons also suggest it was designed to hit a price point first and foremost.

If you have a need for it and can make use of it then its 66 bucks well spent, so long as it works.

Have fun.

Cheers!

[buck1108]

That's a great little machine - I've had mine since 1986, and I still use it for preliminary drafts of multitrack demos, etc. I've only performed minor repairs on it (replace drive belt, resolder head lead), and it's still performed quite well.

There have been a few problems with the plastic construction (screws stripping, and the plastic door) which occur with most other molded plastic cases, but those problems haven't hindered recording in any way.
The only trouble with that door has been that the plastic tab broke early on, and it was just a matter of re-gluing it with rubber cement.

Also, the design of yours seems a little different in appearance, as mine probably is an earlier version than the one you have. Mine doesn't have the bright colours, but rather muted colours on the knobs and a gunmetal grey box with a smoked amber colour cassette door.

In the manual, an alternate version is listed as having separate cue level controls for each channel (I can see the die punches where they would go (just above the tape deck) when I take it apart and view the insides. There are four circles outlined in the plastic).

It's great for portable, quick recordings with the superlative Dolby C NR.

Enjoy!
Louis