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On eBay, I have no horse in this race, but this looks like an opportunity. Tascam 8516 16 Track 1 inch Analog Tape Deck | eBay Cheers.

First off, it sounds as though you did no recording and playing back before you degaussed the first time?

DEGAUSE THE HEADS AGAIN. Don't let go of the button this time. They will be fine.

My opinion only. But if a band, or a band member can't do a straight through one take, then they aren't ready to record, period. They are not serious players. Ok, maybe a little edit tweak, but minimul. This to me, is what is wrong with a lot of todays music produced by the instant gratification...

Yeah a typo. The EM84 brought back hundreds of returns on a search, EL84 brought back thousands. Now if the damned 6386 tubes were that plentiful I would be set :drunk:

Don't worry about finding the EL84 tube (assuming you even need it or want it), a cursory check on eBay shows about 800 of them for sale at prices from 5 bucks apiece.

You would be hard pressed to find a 2 track 1" machine (ever). Mixing to stereo on tape is done to mainly 1/4" tape but there is some to 1/2" two track.

Not that big a problem for mix down. You don't need the sync mode that three heads give you. The multi-track used for tracking must have three heads to allow overdubs, bouncing etc. It looks like the golden years of nabbing reel to reels ended in about 2012 or even late 2011. I bought my Nagra...

Nagra IV -S The best small r to R stereo deck, period.

Free would be too much for that machine from the look of things. Yeah it would be free until you started trying to bring it back from the dead, then the bucks would start to roll. Keep looking and don't be impatient, if you "want it bad" that is usually what you get "bad", You dont list your...

Ive never "mastered" before, this is new for sure. Im from an analog background but find Im doing more and more with the digital set up. I upgraded my DAW (studio one 3) to the Professional level and it has a mastering suite. Reading responses here I think my understanding is in the right...

I'd wager that 99%+ of the population have never heard a first generation 2 track stereo master tape. Fewer yet would have heard a mix right off of the original source material on a multitrack machine. So the vast majority has no frame of reference what-so-ever of any tape system that wasn't...

Interesting discussion. I'd inject that perhaps this yearning for "That Analog Sound" comes from the following: It didn't matter back in the day if the source material was recorded on that new and awesome Studier 4 track at Abbey Road or whatever. The distribution was over AM or FM radio...

Oh lets see, I'll bite. You rounded up yet another machine?

MRL Tape.

I'd have to say: Awesome! My trusty MacBook Pro gave up the ghost recently. Apple won't service it and its the graphics that died. I had already made the switch to a tablet for mobile, just no good for recording. So I decided to look into a high performance desktop for the studio. I discovered a...

If it is all voice, 16 bit is Ok. CD isn't even 16bit. +1 to the Berringer headphone amp. Never a problem, and mine has hard life, LOL. A quiet computer is a nice thing to have.

I started with the same pair as you are talking about. I found Studio 1 more intuitive, for me, YMMV. Both are crippled versions of the real versions, but functional enough that you can make an informed decesion on which of the two works best for you, then upgrade.

Repost in the Analog sub-forum. You are more likely to get answers there.

the date code on the 456 located on the box gets you close. stuff dated mid 94 and earlier are suspect. Mid 94 and on good, with the caveat, as mentioned, there may have been some overlap of stock on hand. I so far, have never encountered a 456 Ampex box with the lower label to be sticky...