poopchute
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Hey guys,
Ive got another question. Basically Ive been dreaming lately. Dreaming of a day when I could buy myself a 2" 16 track reel to reel machine. Well I called up Blevins Audio out of Nashville and had a talk with him. He ended up recommending that I go with a MCI JH-16. But then he dropped a bomb on me. I asked him the price and he said 3500.00 I honestly was thinking it'd be closer to 2000.-2500.00. So thats 3500.00 for a JH-16 that is all setup and gone over by them but it does NOT include a Calibration tape. Thats an extra 600 bucks.
So my problem is that I could afford the JH-16 if I sell my TSR-8 and Tascam M-30 mixer. But then he got to talking about mixers. And then proceeded to drop another even bigger bomb on me. He told me that a decent mixer (that he would sell me) would go for another 3-4000.00. I had initially told him that I intended to cheap out on the mixer and go with a Tascam M-2516.
But then he warned me that most consumer level mixers are NOT +4. Saying that any mixer to be used with a JH-16 needed to have +4 outputs. He didnt know if the Tascam M-2516 had +4 or not (probably so he could recommend one of his).
So my main question is does the Tascam M-2516 have +4 outputs? Or am I crazy to cheap out on a mixer if Im going to spend that much on the Reel-to-reel?
Discuss...
Ive got another question. Basically Ive been dreaming lately. Dreaming of a day when I could buy myself a 2" 16 track reel to reel machine. Well I called up Blevins Audio out of Nashville and had a talk with him. He ended up recommending that I go with a MCI JH-16. But then he dropped a bomb on me. I asked him the price and he said 3500.00 I honestly was thinking it'd be closer to 2000.-2500.00. So thats 3500.00 for a JH-16 that is all setup and gone over by them but it does NOT include a Calibration tape. Thats an extra 600 bucks.
So my problem is that I could afford the JH-16 if I sell my TSR-8 and Tascam M-30 mixer. But then he got to talking about mixers. And then proceeded to drop another even bigger bomb on me. He told me that a decent mixer (that he would sell me) would go for another 3-4000.00. I had initially told him that I intended to cheap out on the mixer and go with a Tascam M-2516.
But then he warned me that most consumer level mixers are NOT +4. Saying that any mixer to be used with a JH-16 needed to have +4 outputs. He didnt know if the Tascam M-2516 had +4 or not (probably so he could recommend one of his).
So my main question is does the Tascam M-2516 have +4 outputs? Or am I crazy to cheap out on a mixer if Im going to spend that much on the Reel-to-reel?
Discuss...