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I am still pretty much a fan of a hardware recorder much like the "old-school equipment" on which I began my recording experience. I believe that a DEDICATED PC with plenty of horsepower would work, but I happen to be one who loves the feel of the actual buttons and knobs under my hand. I...

As I read your post, your implied message rings to this old 76-year-old fellow as clear as a bell: DON'T SELL YOUR TASCAM 388!!! If I read you correctly, the current market value is such that you'd operationally pretty much give it away. You said that you don't have to sell it, and you don't...

Well, I'm sure that some folk will thinnk that I am far off base here; but I don't worry much about the kind of transformers included in any component I buy. My primary concern is how well does the unit sound - how clean and free from distortion is that sound? I understand a little about the...

I wonder whether the soundcard may have gone out. The answer to the question whether the computer will play MP3 files will show whether the soundcard has failed. Do you hear any of those "dings" that Windows gives you on many error conditions?

I have a lot to learn about compressors in audio, though I have used three or four different brands with different characteristics. Two compressors were built into mixers and sported what they called "single-knob compression" with not a lot of advice on how to set them. My DBX compressor has...

I'm glad to hear that you have a fix that is still working quite well. We often have to improvise in a world of planned obsolescence and throw-away hardware. I was also interested in learning how that recorder's transport is made, since the cassette decks I have opened up had the clutch...

I thought that inadequate bias would cause the tape hiss to be too much. I remember years ago when a friend of mine and i were replacing the record/play head in a recorder, the service information we had told us to increase the bias if we had too much hiss or the recording was too "bright."...

When you said "no luck yet," my first thought was to refine that statement a bit. Is it (a) that you were not able to get the spacing specified in the manual; or (b) you got the right spacing but that didn't help. If you got the right spacing, you'll have to dig further. Since you said that...

I suspect that you have a take-up clutch issue rather than a belt issue. In the recorders which I have opened up, the actual "hub" which engages with the take-up reel in the cassette is connected to a spinning disk by a clutch. If the tape is bunching up after the capstan, then the take-up...

A couple of thoughts cross my mind. The first one is about that nebulizer solution container on which you saidthat the seal was broken and that you saw a hair stuck to that broken seal. In my opinion, THAT SITUATION WOULD BE A BIG "RED FLAG" IN MY MIND! That container looks OK, but how do you...

Just Curious: What is your purpose in panning two identical tracks? In this regard, I am somewhat of a "newby" frame of mind in that I haven't done exactly that; but I have encountered a few phasing issues in the old days of my multitrack recordings and bouncing tracks between two tape decks...

Regarding the DNR circuit, if you have it on during both the record and playback process AND lose a lot of the high frequency sound, I have to think that the two "halves" of the DNR system are not "tracking" properly, or perhaps I should say that they might not be calibrated properly. I...

I'm sure that the method you suggest is great - if you've got a recording studio with all kinds of samples at hand along with a piece of electronics that can be made to respond only to taps on the high-hat but nothing else, then trigger the desired sample. But your electronic triggering device...

Another odd thought that occurred to me: It seems that local radio stations get away with doing these satire and parody songs; I even did one or two 'way back in the cassette days and heard them played two or three times on a local 50s/60s/ rock station. In the days of the "congressional...

I, too, and into digital recording to such an extent that I'd hate to go back to those old days when, wol youbeleve, I recorded my on-ma ban by bouncing tacks i stero betwee a Sony 377 an a Sony 35, bth opn-reel steeo tre-had tae eck. Tpe his, fluter ad owere te emiwi ic dl drnthse as. Ath...

My teenage years were in the middle of the "teeny-bopper" era, and I heard a wide variety of audio quality in the commercial hits of that time. Then as that era morphed into the "underground music" characterized with lots of fuzz, there was definitely some clipping in those recordings. We must...

Interesting song; certainly a "hard driving number." I listened to it several times both on a set of home-quality speakers and on a fairly good set of stereo headphones. Since you are looking for ideas to improve future mixes, I'll tell you the one issue which strikes me in the song: I hear...

I noticed that the cello timing is slightly ahead of the guitar, especially at the beginning of the piece. I don't know whether you meant to create the effect of the cello rushing the time a bit or whether there is a synchronization problem between the cello and the guitar. I have dealt with...

It seems to me that Microsoft causes some weird things to happen of late with their updates. It also seems to me that even if you turn off the updates, Microsoft sometimes gets in its "dictator mode," and the updates come in, come heck or high water. Their last update goofed up Outlook so that...

I suggest that you turn off any reverb on the Casio as a starting point. Since you say that the Casio sounds OK when you play it through its speakers, I would probably turn off its reverb and add a bit of reverb in your recording/mixing system so that you can control the reverb that you get...