gospelsing
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Is it ridiculous to use a finalizer in mixing or mastering from a 4 track cassette recorder namely a tascam 424 Mk III .
gospelsing said:Is it ridiculous to use a finalizer in mixing or mastering from a 4 track cassette recorder namely a tascam 424 Mk III .
Mark7 said:I suspect he means one of these.
gospelsing said:Is it ridiculous to use a finalizer in mixing or mastering from a 4 track cassette recorder namely a tascam 424 Mk III .
Herm said:Use it if it makes your stuff sound better to you. But if all you have is a 4 track cassette unit It would not be the first thing I would go out and buy to make an inprovment in my studio or sound.
Herm said:Use it if it makes your stuff sound better to you. But if all you have is a 4 track cassette unit It would not be the first thing I would go out and buy to make an inprovment in my studio or sound.
acorec said:The first thing (for the same $$$) would be to ditch the 4-track and step up to a nice machine. The Finalizer is nice, but you need something of quality to "finalize"
gospelsing said:I'd like nothing better THan to get better but money is a factor .
I wasn't talking about the TCE brand but the behringer. I have a friend who would let me keep his Akia 1 track some thing with a jaz disk i've used it many times but to be honest with you the sound wasn't to me a 1/2" better than the tascam . And using it's tools was like pulling eye teeth but maybe that's me . And I can do fairly good with the tascam it's playing ability I fall short in . Not that I think other things are'nt better I just can't get there from here right now .
But thanks for the advice
gospelsing said:I believe I have to agree . I'm no pro but I can do enough tell tell that If I keep the noise down and that goes with digital as well, and get better recordings I can't see why you can't do good recordings . But I thought that the 424 Mk III was there best 4-track ? .
gospelsing said:I look one up on ebay but it had some problems such as it wouldn't play in slow foward or play so they sayed but it did look GOOD .
What other gear do you use such as mics, EQ , Compressor or not .
What about a 488 . I know some guys that have one of them and they went to adat recording, still on tape .
gospelsing said:I got ya, I mix down to a stand alone cd recorder and add reverb and compression and EQ as I go . Using the effect sends I can put different amounts of reverb to what ever I want. I also have a program on my comput. called Magix studio 7 . It has I think 32 tracks or more and all kinds of plug ins and effects . And you can record, punch in, punch out. But I can get better results with my out board gear . Mainly because I'm better at working it . I've been wanting to get a sm57 because I've heard them live on acoustics and they do sound good . And I'll look out for a 246 . I would like to have another recorder any way.