I used my Tascam 414 mk ii to record my southern rock cover group last nite.
I used only two shure mics...sm57 covering the drum kit and bass amp...sm58 covering both guitar amps. Routed those two mics into a Aphex 107 mic preamp, then to the portastudio. I am totally impressed with the results, good levels all around, nice seperation of instruments, crisp recording of snare -hi hat-cymbals.
As far as the original master tape, I could not ask for more.
Now I'm mixing down to my home stereo tuner and 2 track cassette deck. The playback of the master from my portastudio is clear as a bell...I go to listen from the stereo tuner headfon jack from the same playback and it's lost some clarity across the frequency, both high and low. BEFORE it's even hit the tape head. I also tried to send it to my home VCR to master and same problem. Could there be that much signal loss coming out of your portastudio master tape to your mixdown amp. ? My home stereo is a yamaha stereo receiver rx-730 and my mixdown cassette NAD...middle of the road equipment not high end. Thanks.
I used only two shure mics...sm57 covering the drum kit and bass amp...sm58 covering both guitar amps. Routed those two mics into a Aphex 107 mic preamp, then to the portastudio. I am totally impressed with the results, good levels all around, nice seperation of instruments, crisp recording of snare -hi hat-cymbals.
As far as the original master tape, I could not ask for more.
Now I'm mixing down to my home stereo tuner and 2 track cassette deck. The playback of the master from my portastudio is clear as a bell...I go to listen from the stereo tuner headfon jack from the same playback and it's lost some clarity across the frequency, both high and low. BEFORE it's even hit the tape head. I also tried to send it to my home VCR to master and same problem. Could there be that much signal loss coming out of your portastudio master tape to your mixdown amp. ? My home stereo is a yamaha stereo receiver rx-730 and my mixdown cassette NAD...middle of the road equipment not high end. Thanks.