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Except you can buy used 2” 16 and 24 track tape machines for relatively cheap right now. Once they are refurbished they usually work like tanks...

If you had todays prices for the hardware and yesterdays prices the tape we’d be rocking! For me, the entire recording studio model at the pinnacle of analog recording days in the mid-70’s was like being in an exclusive club of wizards and artists. The entire recording chain back then seemed...

Don’t you think it ultimately boils down to the cost of storage? If 2” tape was $50 a reel a lot more younger folks would still be chasing that sound.

But, the CD is also digital. It all becomes digital at some point in the chain, it’s just a matter of where. I don’t think your CD sucked because it was recorded in Protools. It certainly is possible to ruin a good recording in Protools but that is true of tape too. Protools is as good as...

When was the last new movie you saw shot on film?

Sound is analog. The sound source is analog and your listening ears are analog, We pretty much all live in a hybrid world these days. My studio has been a mix of analog with digital as far back as the 80’s. I mixed a record from one inch tape to a Sony 2 track digital recorder that used VHS...

The problem with nylon strings on a modern steel string neck is that they often feel too close together. You might compromise and get a smaller steel string guitar and set it up with Silk & Steel strings which are quite a bit softer feeling than the strings on your dreadnought.

Bob Dylan John Prine Chuck Berry Buddy Holly Carol King,…Geoffrey/King Keith & Mick John Fogerty Ramblin Jack Elliot Tommy Boyce & Bobby Heart Cyndi Lauper Joni Mitchell Willie Dixon …….are just a few off the top of my head.

Our goal was to build a new guitar that compared to the Martins made between 1934-1938 when they made their best sounding instruments. What’s interesting to me is now this guitar is as old or older than the pre-war Martins we were lusting for in the late 1970’s. When I was restoring vintage...

Here is a guitar I built in Dallas Texas in 1986 that recently came back to me. I just finished doing a neck reset, plane and refret, a new ebony bridge, new bone nut and saddle. This guitar sounds amazing.

The very first lick I learned was Dirty Water. Shortly after I learned Gloria, Louie Louie, and House of the Rising Sun

I bet the 12 channel 2” sounded amazing!

It may have been inspired from the 1920’s Gibson ‘Snake Head’ headstock design that was used on some of their lower end mandolins but it’s much closer to the Aria Pro 2 in how it lacks any congruent lines that correspond to the lines of the guitar. This is the single reason Heritage guitars have...

Which were both stolen from other guitars before them.

Exactly!

We used a couple of them in the 70’s and never had an issue with any of the pots, but I’m sure they had some eventual chronic issues. Even old Neve’s or APIs have some of that.

Maybe after 30 years of beer and smoke? They were built like tanks. They were pretty easy to fix I think too? Mine never failed me back in the 70’s. We used this with a TEAC 3340. We also used this mixer as a PA for our band paired with some big powered EV PA speakers

No, I would have lusted for that mixer. It was like this:

Me too, but when you want to engage the transport without a tape inserted you need to manually press that hidden button while engaging the transport at the same time.

Do you understand how this AI art ‘creation’ works? So, instead of stealing one song from another artist and rewriting into their own which is called plagiarism Al steals ALL the songs and regurgitates all of this stolen art back into so-called ‘new’ songs one byte at a time. It’s the height of...