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3M made back coated cassettes in welded shells that tended to jam up very easily. I've also had cassettes that shed but they've mostly been obscure brands like Racal (a very well known UK industrial electronics company who decided to dip their toes in the consumer market without much success).

I've tried all kinds of mics in the past. Cheap cassette machine dynamic mics were never very impressive unless you like Lofi vocals or tinny guitars. A much better alternative would be one of the internal condenser mics from a cassette recorder. These can be amazingly good and I used to...

Ampex claimed to have fixed the issue many times but they never did. In my experience, Quantegy tape is starting to go sticky. I wouldn't trust any Ampex/Quantegy to be usable.

Either you are extremely sensitive to speed issues or the Revox has a problem. One of my first impressions when I first bought my Revox was just how solid everything sounded with no dropouts. Do you hear these issues on commercially produced records from the 60s to the 80s? The Revox should...

Possibly one of the Aston mics but I can't quite say for sure.

Whatever you use, it isn't going to be cheap if you don't have anything with ethernet already built in. Since one of the destinations appears to be ADAT then maybe you could use some of the Behringer ADA8200 convertors on one end feeding the ADAT machines via optical cable (although strictly...

So the real problem isn't that the input isn't sensitive enough but that your PA isn't powerful enough. I wonder if you are expecting too much from the Stagepas. They are great PA systems for acoustic bands but could struggle if you are trying to overcome a loud drummer.

With our 16 tracks setup, they would often sync up almost immediately but about one in 5 or one in 10 times they would take about 15 seconds to sync. I would guess that adding an extra machine would increase the likelihood of a long sync time occurring. I found it happened regularly enough to be...

I've never found any ADAT service manuals easily available but there is quite a bit on ADAT servicing at Eddie Ciletti's website - pages like https://www.tangible-technology.com/adat/hr_adat.html#CAl%20p9 Have you opened up the machine? The factory setup parameters should be on a sticky label...

The best way that I've found to automatically normalise tracks to the same level is to use the SWS Loudness tools. The SWS extensions are a vital addition to Reaper and I couldn't work without them these days. The Loudness tools allows you to analyse tracks (I would suggest using it on finished...

Turning down the elements that are too loud is a much better habit to get into rather than turning up things that are too quiet. Most newbie mixes end up with the faders close to max and the output clipped because they haven't discovered the master fader. I wouldn't start on eq until you have a...

I have some clients who still use Minidiscs for backing tracks. We used to use them for cassette duplication masters too.

I'd agree with Dave. Trying to use the mixer as another interface is only going to result in confusion. The HA400 works well - I have a couple here for headphone foldback. I probably wouldn't use them for really critical mixing but for general use they are fine.

Hi, it doesn't usually drop the connection at random. However, If a session was recorded at say 44.1kHz and you then open another DAW session which was recorded at 48kHz the interface stops working - even if you try to go back to the 44.1kHz session again. Another example - if you switch the...

The model 16 isn't mine - I just have to sort out the problems when it stops working. The owner has been through everything with the shop that sold it already so I assume that it is working properly in their opinion. I seem to remember the firmware was up to date when I last checked a few months...

I'm afraid that the Tascam Model 16's reputation sinks every time I use it. From my most recent experience I would say that it is possibly the flakiest audio interface I have ever used. It will stop passing audio at the slightest excuse which requires the Tascam to be switched off and then on...

Yes, I was backing up your point Dave with some numbers relating to speakers that I know fairly well. I'm no fan of grot boxes in a commercial studio - if they are used then the mixing engineer should supply them because every engineer will have different tastes. We used to have NS10s in the...

Yes, it is possible and sometimes it works while other times it doesn't. You just need an expander. Most DAWs have something - take a look at JS General Dynamics if you use Reaper. I've also been known to put things through a Dolby A decoder to increase the dynamic range.

It depends on the player. Some players like to be able to play the mic - moving away when they want a thinner tone and closer when they want a warmer tone. Other players want a more constant sound with the freedom to move so a clip-on mic usually works better here.

I just checked and found that the legendary LS3/5a small monitors are only specified to +/- 3dB between 80Hz and 20kHz. These are serious BBC designed monitors and a brand new pair would set you back just under £3k these days. Of course you can achieve better value for money these days with...