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For head replacement, I understand that when a gap starts showing up, that its definitely time to replace them. I've included two images. The first image is from my almost working 38, the one I am in the middle of aligning and calibrating. The second image is from a very cheap 38 I picked up...

I know there are recording techniques and mixing forums here, and I use them often, but my interest here is what are some of your tips and tricks as it relates to analog recording. It seems to me, getting back into analog after many years away, that there are certainly different things one does...

Right now I track to Logic Pro and my tascam 38 and mixes are done in Logic. I am thinking about doing my final mix to go to two track analog reel to reel instead. First, I don't yet have a two track machine. Is it worth searching for a tascam 32? I see them on ebay and they are quite pricey...

I know some of this is posted in other threads, but I have yet another option to discuss. The favorite cheapest option for sync'ing a deck and DAW seems to be striping a track with SMPTE (through a device like the JL Cooper) and making the deck the master and the DAW slave. There are more...

Please bear with me as I am new to this calibration and alignment stuff. I understand quite a bit of the info in the 38 manual. I just started testing my deck. According to the manual 0 on the meter = -10dB = .3V I hooked up a 1kHz test tone and the source is .308 V. Looks good. I hook...

My Tascam 38, which I originally purchased with an M-35 mixer in 1985, I sold in 1994. I needed 16 tracks at the time and bought 2 black-face ADATs and a Tascam M-2600 24 channel mixer. After recording with the ADATs for a bunch of years, I went all digital with a Tascam FW-1884 hooked up to...

I may recording a High School Jazz Ensemble soon and I want to be prepared as much as possible before arriving for the sessions. It will not be a live performance in front of an audience, so I'll have a little time to experiement. Mostly, I am concerned about mic placement on the different...