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Hi Yoad. Welcome to the forum. I have a few questions too. I have recently bought myself a little reel to reel machine (revox a77 1/2 track 7.5" 15"ips) for my humble home studio. I was intrested to know if you use tape at all during the mixing/tracking process and if so what deck and how? Who's...

Has anyone used this brand of tape for tracking pls ?

I baked my first two tapes today zonal 675 and an EMI ? (both e buys fortunately i was advised to buy at an empty nab price and got them for a few quid) the zonal eventually made the machine cut out and blew a fuse on the power supply. (scraped it, its not worth the hasstle) and the emi is such...

Whilst recording the vocal for my latest masterpiece just on the last sentance the phone rang. This doesnt normally happen because nobody loves me haha. Don't get me wrong if i have a session on i normally switch it off but when doing my own stuff or scratch vocal i just leave it on. Annoyed it...

Some original Dub Reggae for you Tubby Dub by Rich Sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

Not sure if i like what i've done here. I think it needs more work. Rich Sounds's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free Johnny 2 bad another reggae relic :laughings:

Here it is. Setup for Soucous work.

I recorded this over the last 2 days. Tell me what you think. Honest appraisals only thanks for listening Rich Pyper Stir It Up 6 master1 by Rich Sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

I've got some holidays coming up and i'm thinking i will remodel my studio room sizes 10'6" x 11' x 7' tall I know its not ideal but thats what i have to work with. I was thinking i'd build a new desk with rack units on top at the back (sloped) there have been many a good design i have seen...

I was installing a new drop down access cover and i reomved the power on bulb and it sparked and now none of the transoprt buttons work ggrrrrr Some one over at tape heads suggested i may have fried a regulator in the power supply. What do you think? I'm carting it off to the techs tommorow for...

Here you go seeker i rerecorded (excuse the crappy playing i'm exhausted after a hard day with the kids) Same chain ammended patch on gfx 5 and hitting the tape a little harder too. Sounds a bit better to my ears. Forgot to say i used a differant tape too this time a TDK LX 35\90 Excellant tape btw

Guys i can find most of the componants easily enough to make a remote control unit for my A77 the thing i'm struggling with is the switches I've had some help from another member but i am still looking for a reasonably priced source of Momantery push button double pole change over switches (uk...

Heres my latest trick i mean tone in the style of Mark knopfler of course and not a single tube in sight. Recorded to tape (revox a77) listen for the hiss at the end. Leave a comment please

Hi I'm kinda new to tape and i did a dumb thing and bought two old shiney metal nab reels. I'm a sucker for shiny things. Heres the dumb part both have tape on them and when i get my nab adaptors (arriving from the usa in a few weeks) I still wont be able to use the shiney metal ones unless i...

I have just recieved the two 10.5" nab reels with whats supposed to be zonal tape on it but both reels are wound shiney side in. So i think they want winding the other way. How do i do this? Problems i have No nab adaptors. (yet have some on the way.) only two 10.5" nab spools both full of...

The Left channel doesnt have anything like the high freqauncy response that the right one does and the left channel has more hiss too What can this be? Can it be fixed?

calling all experts which is the better machine please and why? I have the chance to buy both (vastly differant prices but if its worth the differance i'll go with your advice) thanks

The revox i'm getting has no hubs. Does that mean i wont be able to play 10.5" tapes What does NAB stand for. Where can i get replacements please (uk based) Fill me in on NAB 'cause i havent got a Scoobie Do thanks

I've been offered a revox a77 i dont know the condition except that its ex studio so i'm guessing its had some hammer. Its a really good price but i suspect it will need some work. Are the bits hard to find? Is it the kind of thing i could recondition myself (mechanically) What should i look out...

Has anyone got a tandberg 15 series? Is it work getting as a recording machine? Is the qaulity of the recording good/ bad? Any known issues? What is it like as a diy repair project?