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Hi all. Im new to this type of recording(with tape) Ive got a TSR8 in pretty good nick which i had serviced after i bought it and its all good supposedly. The only thing is it seems to leave shards of tape behind after playing which i cant imagine to be good. Mixer is Tascam m216 which...

tape shedding Very new to tape. in the last few days been doing some tracking on a TSR8 and its leaving little shavings of tape behind! Is this normal?

panning etc. hi there. Sorry to bombard you with questions again. you are probably so busy. Im confused about the panning on this thing. It seems that after the tracks are recorded and i hit the tape button to hear the track, i can only pan from the PGM fader. I thought the pan pot on the...

tape shedding Hiya Sweetbeats, hope your weekend is going well. recording is going well, loving it, altohugh i keep reocridng over takes accidently etc and sometimes i get confused with the PGM out scenario. One thing ive noticed today is fine bits of tape under the heads. looks like the tape...

tascams thats right, i was just wondering which were better to use. working fine through speaker outputs, but i did try through the PGM out but didnt get the effects coming through, but thanx to your last post i now know why! im absolutely blown away by the clarity and warmth. sounds so frickin...

hello yes there was signal going into the dat. Had my computer to sub in and outputs to DAT. recorded some music to test the dat as that just arrived yesterday. Recorded well. But is it better to use the PGM outs as you said and pan left and right channel 1 and 2 pgm faders? yeah i wasnt sure...

one more thing I had the option of buying an alesis desk. i think it was a studio 24. Do you think the Tascam desk was a better option?

thanks again. thanks so much. that will keep me busy.:) get machine tomorrow and will try all this out. I will be recording the drum tracks first using the max option of 4 tracks at once, but i need to be playing gat with the drummer in order for him to know what and when to play etc. I just...

playback? Hi Again. Im so greatful for this thread. 8 track is fixed and ill beg borrow and steal the 165 i need to get her tomorrow. stil gotta spend another 50 on leads too! what about hearing my recorded tracks on playback and mixing down? How do we do that? Im assuming i punch the tape...

awesomeness Thanks alot. I think ill just use it as intended. dont need more than 4 recording at once. But if im recording drums and the drummer needs to the hear the guitar and i plug my guitar into say track 5, will this work? Im a real virgin with this stuff having only used pro tools, but...

How is it going with the mixer?? Hiya there. im Steve, based in Sydney, Australia. I just bought an M-216 to go with a TSR8 reel to reel 8 track i bought off ebay a few weeks back. Im really glad for this thread because sweetbeats really knows his stuff and has filled in some gaps for me...