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Welcome! Glad the information here is helpful and congrats on acquiring your new-to-you MS16!

Just a general comment, and it’s probably already been mentioned, but dbx Type I and Type II noise reduction processing can get wonky with harmonic distortion. So if the signal on tape is saturating the tape and you’re getting harmonic distortion, that can cause the dbx processing to mistrack...

Hi. Thanks for sharing your impressions! What size is your frame and what modules are loaded? Share some pics of it here? What serial number and manufacture date? Headroom is a bit low?? It’s +6dBu nominal, and I think can handle +23dBu cleanly, and that’s without the optional input...

It is also ALWAYS worthwhile to contact Tascam Parts by phone and ask if they have what you are looking for. Many times they have the part I need and it’s cheaper than other online vendors…always try there first.

Does it otherwise operate normally? Does it do it with all cassettes? Since the cassette shell on a Philips format Compact Cassette acts as the majority of the tape path (guides, rollers, etc), sometimes a cassette can be noisy…clicking, etc. obviously if it does it with all cassettes that’s...

I can’t really recall how I ended up with three. I think I got a screamin deal on two together that were somebody else’s failed attempt to make one good one out of two disasters…they gave up and wanted out. Yeah…that’s right…that’s how I got two of them. And before that I got another in a trade...

Only have time for short reply. The caps on the servo board are surface mount originally, and the PCB material isn’t glass fiber…easy to lift traces when desoldering etc. complete and utter PITA speaking from directly related experience. I recapped the servo board in the last 238 I owned hoping...

I have three of them. All non-functional. Hoping to one day make one really good unit out of the three. They are a bit dense inside, especially the rec/play and monitor boards…all the wiring, but it’s not bad. The 424 series used to be my favorite Tascam 4-track Portastudio, but then I worked on...

My advice: slow down. You’re intermixing calibrating the dbx unit and calibrating the Otari. Decide which one you want to do right now and stick with that…one at a time. And be aware you absolutely cannot calibrate the Otari without a calibration tape. There is a process: 1. Calibrate meters...

FYI @Sav2319 I replied in some detail to your post on this same subject over in the analog equipment forum.

Yeah I think you’ve got it right. The direct outs on the console go to the “from console outputs” jacks, and the inputs on the console that you want sourced to the tape machine outputs connect to the “to console inputs” jacks. Hope that helps.

The Mackie is the mixer on the left, your Otari is the bottom tape machine, and your two dbx units are the bottom two in the pic. Does that help?

you’re not putting the inputs and outputs of the dbx units on the patchbay are you?

Deleted post…misread RRuskin’s post.

No need for the 10k tone. Just use the 1k tone. Look on page 2 of the linked manual under the Quick Set Up section. There’s a nice little procedure for the level calibration.