Recent content by Robbie Stiefel

as always youre the man

Are you gonna hold off on getting her working for the time being?

What’s the policy exactly? That they don’t give out schematics?

Any word from AT Japan?

Dude. You can’t stop. I know bench space is valuable but you’re going where no man has yet gone. ha. You know I wonder if it’s possible to contact AT in Japan… I bet perhaps they’d have some documents. Probably in Japanese though. Ha. But you never know. Maybe they kept a set in English….

Smooooth. What next?

The presence of all trimmers.

Is the frequent presence of trimmers like what you see on the AT common across other cassette “portastudios” of the period?

Again very useful info. The deck is looking very good. Always a shame when someone uses duct tape on gear. Re: pre/post EQ points: I assume mods of this nature would be much speedier if you had the schematics and service manual? -Robbie

Haaa. A small world indeed! Thanks for the info earlier re: my questions. Im VERY interested in your mod tapping channel strip post EQ. a "pre/post" switch/button would be ideal in the event you dont need EQ and would like to retain the shortest path possible... Curious is this possible? Re: the...

oh I think more people thank you think are finding this extremely useful. Im seeing more folks talking about these units and virtually no one has worked on these. Or if they have they havnt posted about their experience. Like one post over ten years ago about changing the lamps in the meters...

Man.... This is so freaking encouraging. Very little info at all on this machine. This -including your YouTube video- is BY FAR the most exhaustive deep dive into this fabled machine. Believe it or not I actually scored a true NOS machine back in 2020. it was in orignal factory shipped box...