Recent content by IronWine

Hello fellows! I had the chance to grab the OTARI MX5050 MKIII-4 earlier this week. i paid 500$ for it and got 2 tape reels too, not too bad. It plays and record well on all tracks. heads feels pretty neat. cant wait to work the first project on it! I will be glad to get some info from your...

Hey guys I am running a hybrid setup here, the M512 into Tascam 238 and A&H ICE16D to DAW. Gain matching between the 512 and 238 is pretty smooth and well. But if i would record the same signal to DAW i would end up with a fairly week signal. So i find my self cranking up the gain on the input...

Greetings I use the porta02 on my studio, mainly as a sketchbook for various demos. But the last week i have been recording this local band for 4 days using primarily the porta 02 .during the last day, re-recording bass track, i noticed some buzzing issue i never encountered before. I thought...

Hey there I use in my home studio the Tascam MS-16, together with the Tascam M-512(yes i wish it was the 520) and ampex 351 as mixdown tape. Latley iv'e come to realization that i got to make some kind of hybrid set up down here (up untill now i took some tapes to a friend's studio, but that's...

Hey guys I've spent the last few months refurbishing 351-2 model made by Ampex. many hours have been put into it , including refurbishing the transport, recapping, replacing bad R's and cleaning it down to the screw.. This week I finally assembled it all, starting testing it out. The preamps...

heya people. i am moving to a new (old) house, in a quite town. the house is surrounded with a big yard and theres an old shed of about 12sqm. i woul'd love to make a small "live" room, wired to the control room (an extra 10 sqm room inside the house). Mostly, i will record instrumets one by one...

So it was the pinch roller i suspected the most that woul'd need a replace for a new one . those new rollers going for about 70-100 bucks if i remember correctly. not too bad, but i do try to save every dime on the project, and as long as the parts i have around can do the job i rather use it...

heya fellas. sorry for not updating so long. it's been busy times..i moved to a new place, went thru the exams period, all in relative success. the Ampex project went on and on, being the most interesting aspect of my studies, there's so much to learn. the amount of work on this machine is...

hey you guys (for any AKAI MG614 users around..) my akai mg614 is at the tech shop. the tech has no experience with this specific machine so asked me to consult other people who are familier with the transport section of the MG614. What's happning right now is that the capstan motor starts...

work in progress! over the past two weeks i had 3 sessions . did mainly deep cleaning for the different parts. this is actually how the faceplate looked at the first place: so yes i reckon most of the 50 years old debris is gone now. also these nameless parts are getting refurbished: the...

heya Dave funny you have mentioned those blue caps..polypropylene caps if i am not mistaken, i have actually been adviced that those live forever! every cap weill be checked anyway. the goal of the project is to bring back this machine to manufacture specs , thrilling job! yup exactly Jones...

26/04 hey there ya'll sorry for the long delay..duo to the fact that it is my college studies final project it took a hell of lot more time then i thought to get start with it, April is actually the first month they are able to approve projects ideas. and so mine has been firmly approved and...

Hey fellas i have acquired some old quirky consumer microphones in the past months. some of them has TS connector, some have DIN, all with fixed 1m-5m cables. I wish to mod all of them to have female xlr socket (and a 5cm cable i guess), so i can simply connect them with any xlr cable. that...

Thank you both guys! YES, i'd love to keep you all posted. it's a year long project so it might be awhile untill true achivments will be made tho. in the meanwhile, a photo i like to call "Erase head and a bug". also, some cleaning agent tests regarding getting that face plate all shiny again.