Recent content by magicchord

...limitations really force you to think... Yes, they durn sure do.

When I worked at my first job at a TV station, there was this "old fart" engineer who often spoke of his old radio days and bragged that all he had to do back then was set up a single RCA ribbon mic in the center of the studio and it "picked up everything". He took great pride in how he could...

You are almost exactly describing my situation. I also have a 1/2-inch 8-track setup with outboard gear, etc. What I've decided to do is to get the old gear going and use it as I always have and am comfortable with. But I'm also going to get a computer with a suitable sound card and CDR. I'll...

http://www.jrfmagnetics.com JRF Magnetics does head relapping and are a dealer for MRL alignment tapes, which I like to use.

In my opinion, you don't have to worry about magnetized heads on any good machine made in the last 20 years. You can certainly use a demagnetizer on your machine as long as you are careful to turn the machine OFF (I would unplug it, just to be safe) and bring the demagnetizer slowly towards the...

Yeah, I'm a chump too, I guess. That's all I have to say; no point in arguing with zealots;->

I'm assuming that you're playing the output of your soundcard through your stereo system and that you hear a hum or buzz in the audio coming from the soundcard. It's probably not the fault of the cable. Most likely a ground loop. This is caused by the computer and the audio system being grounded...