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The other day the cable at the mini-jack end of my pair of Sennheiser px100 headphones broke. I love the sound and feel of these 'phones and they have just been discontinued so difficult to buy new. I have a new 3.5mm stereo jack but can't work out how to solder the awful wire they use. Each...

Does anyone happen to know the configuration of the the 3 pickup controls for the Shergold Masquerader 6 string? They are pretty decent guitars made in the UK. Mine dates back to '76. I can't find any clear info about them. The Shergold website gives samples of all 15 pickup variations but...

A bit a a rambling post I'm afraid but I'd love some comments on this! I'm always amazed how some cassette multitrackers can sound - still very happy with my Tascam 244! When cassette 8 trackers became available it seemed unbelievable at the time but they also seemed very capable in good hands...

I bought one of these Chord mics a few months back to see how good they are - at around £12 each in the UK they are a cheap alternative to an SM57. I must say I was pretty impressed - it is difficult to tell it apart from my 60's Unidyne III, which is a bit fragile and kept for special...

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but I'm confused about how the remix was done on this. It appears that Giles Martin had access to all the original tapes. 4 track machines (Studers?) were used for the original recording and tracks were regularly bounced down from one machine to...

This is probably going to sound like a really weird post - and I apologise in advance as it sort of falls between analogue and digital and I'm not sure where to post it! I'd like to be able to use my Tascam US122 mkII USB interface sometimes on battery power and not plugged into the pc. This is...

I'm having problems with my 60's Unidyne III again. I get a big drop in bass response. The only way to cure this is to pull the black plastic top end around the capsule away from the body slightly. It then sounds great but after a few minutes slips back. I wonder if there is a loose connection...

I saw a photo of Alison the other day in a UK newspaper - the Daily Telegraph. It was a studio shot with her beside a really classy looking microphone on a huge trolley and gantry. Unfortunately I don't have a copy. But what intrigues me is that the mic had two huge cables running from it. Dual...

I've started to notice some wow and flutter with one of my Tascam 244 decks - the most recent one which I modified for Type 1. The frequency response is still outstanding, but I'm noticing w&f at the sort of level you get with a standard cassette deck, which spoils acoustic guitar recordings...

I've been inspired to try backwards guitar recording again after talking with Level Anything. It is easy enough to set up (but difficult to get it to sound good!) using a portastudio - just flipping the cassette over - but I'm wondering how this was done in the old days with reel to reel. My...

I was a bit surprised a while ago looking at the erase head of my Tascam 244 - it seems the track layout is staggered and not in-line. I wondered why this is? I remember seeing that bias currents for some erase heads can be as high as 70 mA and working voltages as high as 20V or so. This would...

Forgive me again if this has been covered before but I'm still confused about CD re-issues claiming to me "remastered". With the possible exception of the latest Beatles release, none of them seem to be remixed from the original multitrack master tapes. Having got hold of some of the "multitrack...

Sorry if this is a strange thread but Sweetbeats' fantastic thread with the Akai 12 track got me thinking of old formats. I found out that until the late 70's 2 inch audio tape was still used for video by TV studios. I remember my late brother selling a couple of 2 inch 16 track studio masters...

Forgive me if this has been covered before, but I'm finding that my old tapes have mellowed a little with age - quite nicely... I posted on another thread about a track that has deteriorated on a 1982 recording on my Tascam 244. Half the track had gone and half remained ok. This was a vocal...

I felt I just had to post about a strange thing I just found with an old (1982) recording on an SAX C60 on my Tacam 244 - the first I ever made on this machine! I remember the tape playing up a bit back then when the recording was finished with track 2 breaking up a bit. Today I was trying to...

This may seem like a weird thread but I had so much fun today recording some of my tracks on to a 1960 battery 3.75 ips Grundig TK1. I used some Maxell UDXL I had wound on a 3 inch reel, It took me back to my first experience with tape when I was little. To watch the reels spinning round on...

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, or if it has been covered before, but I thought I'd share something I learned a few weeks back about tape duplication. I'm in the middle of digitising my Tascam 244 cassetes and am amazed how good they sound 30+ years on. I wish I could make...

Thanks FB and JP. FB - no indication whether slow blow! JP - I'm beginning to panic a bit! I put 2 quick blow 500mA fuses in and switched on. There was a bit of a longer delay than normal I think before the sound came back but it did! Everything worked perfectly. I then switched off to put...

I'm in a bit of a panic - just switched on my oldest and best 244 and, after working perfectly for ages, there is no sound output - the meters light up and transport works but there is is no deflection of the meters and no sound coming out - can't get anything to show up on the meters when I...

I've spent a while transferring recordings from my 244 to a PC to archive them and also to use remix the tracks using a DAW. I'm amazed how good they sound (and thinking that tape is pretty good at archiving anyway as they are 34 years old and in great shape!). But I wonder if I am doing it...