Finally got a mixdown machine--thanks for the help I got here

[Cliff K]

I solicited a lot of questions about options for mixdown machines and formats here a while ago, and I got a lot of really good information. Just want to say thanks to the forum....this is a positive place . I was looking for a minidisc deck, but yesterday I found an Otari MX5050 Mk.III-2 1/4" 2-trk machine that came out of a church for $200, and I bought it. It seems to be in good working condition, records, erases, and playbacks....it sounds good! I may have seconds thoughts on it if I ever take it in for a service and they tell me it needs X, Y, and Z, or they can't get parts as it's an older machine, but I'm happy at the moment. I learned how to record on analog reel-to-reel machines, so it's nice watching the reels go 'round, editing with tape heads, etc. I know that this is backassward today, and I do plan on getting a computer for recording, but for now this is pretty cool....heavy as a mother, too, with the up-on-top meter bridge that hangs over the deck. Yesterday My stars must have been in some retro alignment, because I also traded some one a few old tubes for a working Nacamichi 600 cassette deck....old school, but it looks cool and sounds good. Now I can finally record some mixes and do some editing!

Thanks again,
Cheers!
Cliff

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[ZEKE SAYER]

Otaris are good, but i would have got a cd burner. But hay, If your happy, where happy.

Zeke

[Cliff K]

Originally posted by ZEKE SAYER
Otaris are good, but i would have got a cd burner. But hay, If your happy, where happy.

Zeke

I should be getting a computer for making music in the next couple of months, and I'll get a CD burner, sound card, etc., with the computer. This tape machine fills my need right now, the price was right, and I want an anlog machine for working with tape, so yea, I'm happy, although I see the advantages of working with CDs......that's coming. But hey, this Otari is an imposing hunk of gear....if it fails or doesn't work out I'll have very good boat anchor!