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Well, I’ve been playing since 1984 and I’ve written music, helped with lyrics but never could claim I wrote an entire song by myself until August this year (2023)! We have an awesome place here in our town called The Writer’s Colony. They usually focus on fiction writers but in August, they had...

I know this may or may not help you but… I have the M520 connected to the same Tascam PB-32p unbalanced for DO and Tape In to and from my MS-16 multitrack. I regularly patch the outputs of the MS-16 to the MOTU 16a thunderbolt interface to my iMac with no problems. I originally had the 60hz...

I have some original panels without the screws that I removed from mine when I built new black walnut panels. I kept the originals to use as templates if I was to make more. It's a very labor intensive project for one-offs, so I decided it wasn't cost effective for me to make more to sell...

Here's the replacement unit, hopefully that lead is long enough and I can just simply attach the new "glass"! OR, if it's just these two connectors, I may just be able to do a full swap. We'll see this weekend when I have time to dig into it.

Nice!! I have all my channels SND/RCV attached to a patch bay but only have three compressors in my outboard rack. I need to use some extra patchbay spots to connect my PGM access points for sure!

Thanks Corey! I was hoping I could do it like that. I went back to your first images of this thread and although it wasn’t specific to that removal, I saw a few things that led me to believe what you say. I hope that the cable is long enough to be able to safely work with it and I’ll update you...

Had you not assigned the drum channels to the 1 & 2 busses? maybe? regardless, glad you got it working!

Just curious, I have my 388 in storage but was thinking of putting it up for sale. When I bought it, channel 7 VU “glass” was broken but light and meter still work. I came across a working bank of 5-8 VU meters, plug and play for the 388 and wondered how hard is it to replace the VUs? How much...

Next question I can’t seem to find in the manual for the SBX-80: If you stripe a tape with SMPTE, does it have to be at a particular BPM? or do you set the BPM after you stripe a tape and everything sync’d to the machine follows it? Half the hurdle with tech or anything for that matter, IMHO, is...

I just don’t know, honestly, I’m not intending to use this with a DAW, but using it only with hardware.

So the guy accepted my “reasonable” offer for the NOS SBX-80. I guess time to download the manual (although I think he said it came with the original in the box) and figure out yet another bit of kit! Thanks for all the advice and information that helped me better understand this type of gear...

Interesting you mention that, my MOTU 16A has Word Clock abilities. I’ve never used it before.

Again, thanks, that expanded my understanding EVEN further and I think for my needs and the fact that I’m not interested in using DAW, I‘m actually using hardware sequencers like Roland MC-500 and Akai MPC One and my Kronos 2. The first SBX-80 I found is only $185 shipped, so I will likely go...

Yes, thanks Corey! That clarifies so much!!! I may still get the sync box but I now see how this normally would be used. I think what I was wondering about is if my machine has a little speed lag that if I try to record a drum machine sequence, then want to come back and place another sequence...

I have found a Roland SBX-80 that appears to be able to do the SMPTE striping on my tape machine, and uses MIDI for synchro. I guess the question is: should I be doing this or just lay down drums via sequencer and then layer each part manually on to the tape the old school way? I guess it’s all...

Nice! ? I probably won’t go that far yet, but it sure would have been nice if they had done this already… but then, for all the M-520 CAN do for such a low price… I hate to complain.

You are correct, not enough time working with it and my sessions are small, just me, occasionally one other person, not like back when i worked in the studio and we did full bands. Thanks

I may just do that on Channels 3 & 4 since I’ll never be using the Phono function and they stay on MIC setting. I won’t be mic‘ing drums, so no need for a ton of phantom. Good solution, I feel stupid that I just didn’t decide to do this and dedicate some to always on. Thanks!

That’s what I do, I bypass the built-in mic preamps when using my outboard preamps with or without phantom power BUT the M-520 actually has some pretty great sounding mic preamps and I love using them with dynamic mics for sure, but even with condenser mics… but that brings me back to what I...