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I see. So all I need to do is just hook the pres straight to the recorder and adjust the pres for the proper level on the recording device?

I'm in the process of improving what I have as far as studio gear. I don't have all of these things yet, but ultimately I plan to buy an RME Fireface, a Sytek MPX-4Aii preamp unit, and then eventually one more of each. I will either be recording into the Fireface or into a 1/2" analog 8 track...

So what I still want to know is this: if your mixer doesn't have a line in that can bypass the preamp but it does have an insert, can you still use it even if your external preamp only has a balanced output?

All these threads about analog machines going for sky-high prices on the 'Bay are making me glad I snagged my ATR-60 for $100!

However I wasn't wearing a static strap, so my heart kind of skipped a beat when I read in his post that I could easily have ruined the card. Both the ones I touched are still working as before, though, fortunately.

Don't really have the means to digitize it at the moment. The problem is now on channel 7, of course, and signals recorded to it are definitely quieter than on the other channels. If I'm recording over an area of the tape that I've already recorded, I don't really get much in the way of...

ausrock, thanks for your help--I just successfully swapped cards 1 and 7, and confirmed that the problem is in the electronics and not the head. I'm sure now that it's just a calibration issue.

There is indeed a 'slide' on either side of the card. So, if I'm understanding you right, I should be able to just carefully pull the cards out, no tools required?

I can see that there is some kind of motherboard the cards are on. Do they just slide out?

No, it doesn't seem to be shedding at all. It must have been well kept. Of the tapes I've put on there, the one that's shedding most is a 2-track master recorded on Ampex 499.

I didn't even know tape machines used cards. I'll look into it.

I've cleaned the heads every time I put tape on it--I don't think that's the issue. When I played back a pre-recorded tape, track 1 sounded fine through both the sync and repro heads. If the sync head will play that track fine, does it make sense that it would record it fine too? I'm not...

Today I recorded some guitar on it. I did notice a distinct difference between track 1 and the other tracks I tried--whereas on the other tracks the guitar sounded huge and warm, on track 1 it sounded thin and it distorted easily. There was also some background noise. Is this something that...

Good, I was hoping that was the case. From what I've read the ATR-60-16 is completely useless at 30 ips (all the low end drops off) so I wouldn't have wanted to use that anyway. I wasn't only hearing the noise in the very lowest part of the frequency spectrum--it was still there on past 1000...

Okay, I haven't been able to get my hands on a calibration tape, but I just got done messing with it anyway. Here's what I found: 1) I expected the low speed to be 15 ips and the high speed to be 30 ips, but a friend gave me a 2 track master tape recorded at 30 ips, and I'm unable to reproduce...

I cut my teeth on a Tascam 22-4. It was/is my dad's. He still has it but the 15 ips speed quit working some time ago. We're not sure what it would take to fix and he doesn't seem to be all that keen to do it, especially since I just got him started on a DAW setup. Just out of curiosity...

Oh, awesome link. My heads look way better than the examples of bad heads I'm seeing there. That's encouraging. Yeah, I'm aware of that. A friend of mine has some 1/2" stock that has never been used and has been stored in good conditions that he is going to sell me for cheap, and I'm in the...

I tried taking a picture but my camera is crap and won't give me a clear image. The wear is fairly even from top to bottom but not quite perfect on either head--there is a very slight angle on it. I guess when I get my hands on a calibration tape and align it I'll see how bad the...

I think I should re-formulate my question...after doing some research and closely examining the heads, I can see that there is some wear. What I'm wondering is what serious wear looks like versus what trivial wear looks like. My heads don't look near as bad as the worn head example in figure 3...

As I posted a few days ago, I picked up a Tascam ATR-60-8 cheap this weekend. I haven't been able to get my hands on anything to play on it yet, or to calibrate it for that matter. I'm curious about the condition of the heads--are there obvious visual cues that would tell me if they were...