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I visited Top Hat Recording in Austin, TX yesterday. I heard a session off of a Studer A-827 2" 24 track. This was my FIRST TIME to hear a 2" session IN PERSON. (sad, i know.) What can I say? Great band, great tracks, and what I heard was ASTOUNDING. Everything I've ever expected sonic-wise...

5pm Central Time of February 28th 2007 has passed us. No more new quantegy unless you've already ordered it. I dunno........just thought it'd be worth a measly post. -callie-

Cleaning house, so here it goes! It's an RCA CA-1400F dual cassette deck. Very smoothe deck for only being of consumer build. Excellent condition, heads are in great shape. Virtually no wow and flutter, and a very musically pleasing handling of the higher frequencies while playing back and...

I'm getting rid of my cassette deck, along with about a dozen or so of my beloved car cassettes :( I wanted to give you guys dibs on it. I'm selling the whole lot for dirt cheap. I'm in the austin, TX area. I don't mean to violate any rules about forum useage, so forgive me if I am. Just...

I have a Sony TC-366, and about 42 tapes that were all given to me, all containing Vinyl dumps of some INCREDIBLE records. I've been transcribing them all, one by one, to my computer, in CD audio format, so that I can have my way with them. I want to sell/get rid of the machine/tapes once I am...

I've heard it said by some engineers I've talked to, that Dolby SR sounds so noiseless, anechoic, and sonically similar to today's digital DAW's, that they'd much rather not mess with it, and just track to a DAW. These same engineers said that if they ever use analog, they go for 30 IPS, +9...

Ok, maybe I should ditch the theatrical aspect and just tell the story. We're trying to resurrect our MCI JH-110, and bring it up to spec for 1/2" 2 track 30 ips mixdown :D The thing hasn't been powered on in about 10 years. There was only one blown IC chip on the analog torque card. So to...

SO, I'm stuck with Pro-Tools right now. Since I can't afford any additional plug-ins, and running plug-ins causes such a hassle with pro-tools sessions, I'm going for a very straight-forward approach. I want to treat Pro-Tools as a tape machine, with a level automator, and a VERY nice splicing...

Come and get it! http://austin.craigslist.org/ele/200993547.html -callie-

I may have an opportunity to acquire a German-made turntable. And for the life of me, I cannot remember the Manufacturer's name, I think it was Microtone Electronics. It definately started with an M. And the model number was E40 (or 40E. cannot remember for sure.) Anywho, are turntable needles...

I understand that most of the 60's stuff from the Beatles was done with 4-track machines. I've HEARD, or seen, or read, whatever........that many of the Beatles's albums, forgive me for not remembering which ones, have been remixed using original 4-track work tapes, which have each individual...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Studer-A827-24-ch-analog-recorder-amazing-deal-NR_W0QQitemZ120000815065QQihZ002QQcategoryZ15199QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem The first picture you see is of the Studer. Hiding in the back corner is a Mac. haha. The Studer's got bigger ones than it does!!! :D

In the interest of space and sleekness, and not wanting to give up my analog roots, I'm considering getting a front-loading turntable. I've seen a few models made by Pioneer, that seem pretty nice. Does anybody know of other manufacturers of front-loading turntables? And if so, what make/models...

What a crap shoot: http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-JAZZ-RECORD-METAL-MASTER-DISC-PLAYS-10-78RPM_W0QQitemZ7422911723QQihZ016QQcategoryZ10174QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I just wanna know how the hell he knows it's a jazz record ??? He provides NO history of where the item came from. What a flop. -callie-

I've run this through my head several times, and it seems pretty dang accurate to me. SOMEBODY correct me if I'm wrong. ALSO, I have a digital multimeter. WHAT ac voltage level is the equivalent of +3dB??? OTARI CALIBRATION 101: When calibrating, the first thing to do is to clean & demag the...

Before you guys all stone me by the city gates, DON'T READ THIS POST if you absolutely hate digital recording, and think that it is the Antichrist. So ANYWAY, As much as I'm a lover of analog, I'm beginning to delve into the theory behind digital recording, and It's actually rather...

I just did a live recording using DAT's. My first time to mess with DAT's, really, only because I was allowed to borrow a portable dat recorder and I didn't feel like lugging around a CD recorder. It was SO EASY to hit that damn 0dB brick wall. Digital distortion showed up in the recording...

I've been told a very intriguing method to fix sticky-shed, that works (supposedly) WAY BETTER than just baking a tape. I've run this through my head, and it seems to make sense. So sticky tape has extra air and water molecules contaminating the oxide particles, which shove their way in between...

Random tip I learned today- Because of the nature of magnetic tape, the closer you get to 0dB while recording, the more the high end rolls off, and the more the low-end gets emphasized. With a properly aligned deck, this effect starts to become audible at about minus 7 or 8dB on the meters...

Just started my Pro-Tools class. Wow. It's gonna be a LOONNNNNGGGG 3 years. I will do my best to treat it like a tape machine, but it seems I will have LOTS of non-linear editing features that I will have to be ABLE to use.......which requires me using them. I feel like I'm betraying the...