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Mix as you go. If parts 1 & 2 aren't working well together, no other added parts are going to fix it.

I used to do stereo from a distance for acoustic guitars that drove the track but have since gone to stereo for solo instruments and mono when the guitar is part of an ensemble.

IMHO- TASCAM has never made a really good mic pre. They aren't awful but they lack the transient response needed to capture drums & bass to my satisfaction.

The 500 series was more expensive than the 300 series. It probably has more function and perhaps better performance.

I worked with 1 engineer who would mix with everything in the center before re-panning for stereo.

If all else fails, you can buy a used dbx I unit and patch it in. The stand alone 150 would work just fine.

I hope you mean "watts" because you don't want to hook spakers up to anything spitting volts.

A food dehydrator works best. Do not try to play anymore of these tapes as they are now. You can ruin a machine trying to play them. There are tutorials on line about how tapes should be baked.

Are you using new tape that isn't subject to sticky-shed syndrome?

If you a When using an outboard preamp, you should route it through either a line in or accessory receive. Not only will the signal path be cleaner but phantom is then a non-issue whether on or off.

Gadd: Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Jim Keltner: Johnny Rivers' version of "Slow Dancing." Bernard Purdie: Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters," "Home At Last," & "Deacon Blues." Mike Botts was Bread's drummer who also did stunning outside session work. Case in point, Linda...

Bernard Purdie, Jim Keltner, Steve Gadd, the late Mike Botts.

I've used them (EV CS15 or Sennheiser mkh 405) on occasion. Placement was super critical but the results suited the track just fine.

The TASCAM DA series machines were great in their day but keeping them running this long after production has ended will be challenge.

It sounds to me like a doubled vocal with one track being pitch shifted through an auto-tune device or plugin.

Assuming machine & meters are calibrated, playback a 1kHz tone @ Ovu. The level should not change more than +-1 whether dbx is in or out. Then record a your own 1kHz tone and make the same comparison on both input and playback from both heads. I used dbx I for decades and tended to print no...

Re: DBX - Align your machine with the dbx in bypass. Don't record too hot and you should get results that rival digital when it comes to being noiseless.

Atlantic was the 1st pop & jazz label to issue stereo lp's because Tom Dowd insisted on recording everything in both mono & stereo well before CBS Labs developed the industry standard stereo disc. While other labels were marketing faux-stereo product from their back catalogs, Atlantic just got...

According to Tom Dowd, it became the norm after Atlantic Records made it their policy to place bass and kick in the center. The decision was driven because they were bouncing too many unplayable pressings when those instruments were panned off to one side or the other.

It's possible you have a 48 with the wrong faceplate which is the exact same machine minus the +4 in/outs. The performance of the 2 machines should be identical. If you must have it operate @ +4, matching outboard matching devices are available.