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First there is backward compatibility with all my old M-79 mixes with IEC eq. Second, this machine sounds great, too. Third it is quieter and my place is pretty small. Finally, I may want to do a few tweaks on the M-23 and this ensures I have a working mix machine. Cheers, Otto

I was in KC this weekend with my younger son for his soccer tournament. During a break between his games, I stopped by a local studio that had an Otari MX-series 2-track for sale and listed on Craigslist. It's one of those very common BII-2 machines. Not the prettiest, but it's fully working...

Index marks are for speed calibration with a strobe. The covers are wedged in and may be glued. Can't recall. Out if town at the moment. I seem to recall my M-23 has lines in both covers. Never replaced bearings, but I replaced the whole idler on the M-23 because it was bent, and replaced the...

Even better, I have about $200 combined in all three. I made the larger set using old Peerless tweeters and new Peerless woofers and a standard 2-way crossover, now installed in a sealed enclosure for which the new woofers were designed. The smaller 2-ways are Realistic Minimus 7s and the...

I'm using what used to be my hi-fi amp when I bought a new hi-fi system in 1981. The amp is a Hafler DH-200, which is a dedicated power amp built from a kit. The advantage, I suppose, was that at the time I could buy a kit for an amp for $250 or so and end up a day later with an audiophile amp...

#1 card is bias amp. #3 is basically a placeholder on NAB machines like ours, and was there for a special card for the Dynatrack machines that used two tape tracks per audio channel to increase S/N. #4 is important as that is the record (eq) card. #6 is just the line driver and 7 and 7/9 are...

Yeah, I used to have an AG-440 along with two M-79s, an M-56 and the various parts of the M-23 lurking in the corner. The AG-440, a perfectly solid machine for many purposes, always struck me as a boy among men next to the 3Ms that were state of the art machines used for studio tracking, mixing...

BTW, that's a great deal on a very good machine! The MX-80 is a very straightforward, good machine and sounds perfectly good. Personally, I'm not eager to have a 24-track, but I'd be delighted to have a machine like that with a solid set of 2" 16-track heads and/or 1" 8-track heads. Enjoy...

Another good point. Perhaps the main reason that 3M Isoloop machines were the best sounding machines in the late 60s when they first came out was because of the superior tape to head contact and minimal unsupported tape path and few fixed elements (other than heads) in the tape path. The...

Yes, I mix tape tracks through a small mixer to the M-23 2-track. Actually, coming from the mix off the 1/2" 8-track, with no noise reduction, mixing to the 1/4" 2-track doesn't increase the noise level much. What it does do is give me a good analog style mixdown machine that sounds great and...

Actually, they did sell very nice portable cases with internal suspension for use with the 19" rack width units. Mitch Easter has a 4-track M-23 like that that I've wanted to buy for a decade, but he has clients who insist on recording "old school" with a pair of 4-track machines and so he...

Good point. Been a while but I think I may have posted in this thread. Clearly, modern audio electronics could be very compact and relatively low cost relative to older machines. No need for the expense, weight and space of transformers on the I/O. The question of shifting away from tape to...

Sold! Thanks, Otto

Sounds to me like you could benefit from a second 440 4-track. Do a rhythm bed of tracks on one, then mix to one track on the other and add the rest. Cheers, Otto

I pretty much do analog only. Tracking to Otari MX series 1/2" 8-track and mixing to 3M M-23. I use an old Mackie CR-1604 compact mixer. Some tracks will run thru a Sound Devices MixPre, but a lot of stuff just uses the Mackie preamps. I have a Yamaha standalone digital recorder which is...

Do you really need 24 tracks? The more I play and practice and the more I learn about recording, the more I find 8 tape tracks is plenty for most things I do. Changing from analog to digital is not doing yourself any favors if you want to keep a simple process for good recordings. Just my two...

The only annoying thing for me about selling the 388 some time back was the loss of access to those 8-track multitracks. Not like I wouldn't be better off to just do new recordings even if I'm using those older ideas. In hindsight, I wish I had kept the Otari 4-track all these years and just...

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I'm selling an AKG D-19 dynamic mike. The mike is in good working order. This particular model carries the Norelco brand and also has a badge indicating that it was used by CBS at one time. *It has a standard XLR output connector and both the M (music) and S (speech) settings work. *I'm asking...