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Okay, so after a productive session last night, which involved using the A807 to do some backwards piano, the machine up and died. The A807 has a particular operating mode where you can press PLAY with the tape unloaded so as to clean the capstan. However, I have never been sure how to get it...

I guy I know with an interest in exotic ICs posted this: Neko Ed sur Twitter : "Ampex L-03 - Unknown device! SBCDIP-16 with white ceramic, gold cap and pins. Manufactured Week 21 of 1975. No further information! https://t.co/Ea6lBTKq3a" ...It's a 16-pin DIP made by Ampex in 1975. Does anyone...

If it was the recording head, playback wouldn't work. If it was the record amplifiers, you'd expect to have at least one channel working. As far as I know, the only circuitry which is common to ALL recording channels is the bias master oscillator. That's going to require diagnostics from...

I can't see anything about the wire gauge, unfortunately. Nothing printed on the cable of mine, either. Regarding the physical allocation of the pins, the back of the deck itself looks like this: EDIT: The numbers at the end of each row being 17, 33 and 50.

Should anyone want to double-check, here's a scan from the manual:

It feels like I'm bragging, but here goes: Multitrack and mixdown machine, taken a year ago. Since then I've added some noise gating, but it looks more-or-less the same otherwise. There's a TSR-8 on the far left by the remote for the Otari. The rack cabinet here contains the compressors and...

Thinking about it, it's not quite such an apples-to-oranges comparison as it first seems. DSD uses pulse-density modulation rather than usual PCM, hence it records a single bit at a stupid frequency and somehow stores the level in the time domain rather than directly recording the level as a...

This is something you don't see often: ITAM 16 Track Tape Machine | eBay A 1" 16-track machine made in London. While the seller says it's made from bits of Revox A77, I think that only applies to the 1/2" 8-track machine from the early 70s. AFAIK the 16-track machine was designed from the...

Here's something even more exotic than the Cadey - one of the Allen & Heath 24-track machines, scrapped just before they entered production. Apparently a few prototypes were made, this must be one of them. Allen & Heath Brenell Syncon M24 2" 24 Track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder | eBay

Someone seems to be parting out a Cadey. This was probably one of the only 16-track machines to use valves in the audio electronics. They were available in kit form, only had two heads and the tape transport allegedly used bicycle spokes as part of the drive mechanism. Rather a shame to see...

Okay, I've been trying to get the Otari operational for a while now, and there is a persistent issue with the transport that is enough to make calibration a problem. I've just obtained a new Athan pinch roller, hoping that would fix the issue, since I didn't like the surface of the old one. It...

Nothing to do with me, but these don't come up much so anyone interested in weird machines might want to have a look. I'm not convinced it's worth the asking price, but here it is: Rare ITAM 806 8 track Reel to Reel 1/2in tape | eBay

I get the feeling that this might be like looking for hen's teeth, but are there any cassette decks out there which are twin-deck, but both twin-headed, and have varispeed? I'm looking for something like the TASCAM 202, but with 3 heads each. Basically I'm looking for a compact way to do true...

I think you'll have to find someone better than me to ask. It should look something like this: ...I don't know what it means when it's lying on its side like that. I didn't think that could happen.

Okay, so I was trying to find out if the intro to 'Cannonball' really is sampled Ewoks, and I found this: The Breeders - New Year XX - YouTube Looks like an MSR-16 running ATR mastering tape.

I'm struggling to organise the arcane form of payment he requires and my bank has not been terribly helpful about it. I'm pretty sure some UK folks here have managed to pay him, so I'd be interested to know what they did, how they did it and who they used.

Given that SM911 is going for about £90 a go, this looks quite the bargain if 406 is any use to you. The seller is offering some cartons of 5 Quantegy 406 reels, supposedly NOS for £100 per carton. I've just snagged one of them myself, anyone else using 1" tape in the UK might want to have a...

Okay, here are a couple of mine. First, one of the dreaded rainbow logos: ...note also the hollow '456'. This came in a good box from 1997, but whether this is '97 tape on a 1970s reel or what, I don't know. I bought it off ebay during the tape crisis but never used it. Next, a Webber...

I mean putting a mixer between the drums and the recorder. Mic each drum (or a group of drums), feed them into a mixer, pan them appropriately, add eq to the bass drum, and then feed that to two tracks of the tape deck. Record keys, vocals, guitar etc to the other tracks as appropriate. I've...

I'm looking to upgrade from my Yamaha MG16/4, and I need something with at least 20 channels. I can get away with one or two being stereo pairs, but no more than that. There are two units on ebay which have caught my eye at the moment, A Soundtracs Rx-8 (which has channel phase inverters and...