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Has anyone played one? Is it a good buy for $350? Does it stay in tune? Any info will be greatly appreciated.

All you need is Ears by George Martin. (the Beatles guy...) Also anything by him or any "old" engineer or recorder. theses guys talk about the old days a lot.

What do you mean by "Left Mic/In" and "Right Mic/In?" Do you mean channels 1 and 2 and you are bussing them? If so, that is your problem. Plug the left out of your keys to Track1, the right to track 2, and record them direct. Not Bus. Pan them hard left and right and you WILL have a stereo...

To record rap simply but veratile like you need the following 1 Mic 1 Drum Machine 1 Keyboard (to get the basslines) 1 Four track Cables. Track 1, the beat. Track 2, the bassline synth thing Track 3, the main rap vocal Track 4, whatever. You can get all this (you already have the drum...

I'm gonna get the Gibson Les Paul SL. I found it for $499 Anyone find it cheaper? Anyone find it in colors other than cinnemon, natural or black? (Green and blue (or concord) are what I'd like). Any reason I shouldn't buy this guitar? Thanks.

Yes. If you only want one thing per track, use direct. For more stuff, you could record the drum machine, bass, and rhythm guitar direct on tracks 1,2, and 3. Then pan them all hard right, pan track four hard right, put T4 on Bus, and hit record. This would put all your rhythm tracks on...

Are you using a mic? I use a mic. Since my 414 has no xlr input I have to use a $15 adapter. I found that if the adapter is even CLOSE to a wall-wart, power supply, ac adapter thing, buzz hits full-force. Try moving different pieces of gear around and away from the walls and see if you still...

Define your needs, homie. Are you gonna record everything yourself? Do you want GREAT quality or just a sketchpad? Do you need great editing capabilities? What the hell are you doing??? Okay, the 414 is better than the Porta2 cause you can record on all 4 tracks at once, and it now comes...

Bus means signal path. Your 4track has two busses, a left and a right. If you want to use more than one channel but record them to ONE track, use bus. Example, if you want to record snare, kick, and 2 overhead mics for drums, you could plug a mic into each channel, bus them all to the left or...

Uhh.....what are you recording? How many instruments in all? You can grap your old boombox, hit record, start up the drum machine, and wail on you violin if ya want. That will get recorded. But do you want better quality, better flexability, do you want to record 12 different things? You...

Adats are everywhere. You can easily record something, send it to Delaware so Uncle Joe can put down a solo, then drive it to LA to mix it at JOHNS BITCHIN STUDIO. But they are still tape. You have to rewind. They can break or get eaten. Adats are also modular. Need 8 more tracks? Just...

Frank Zappa had a song called "My guitar wants to kill your mama." I wonder if the guy'd take 10k to record that. I mean, no HUMAN is doing the killing, right? Just a guitar. I wonder what kind of guitar it was? I hear that fenders aren't good to hit people in the head with cause they break...

The most common way to use a mixer with a 414 or other 4 track is to run RCA's out of them mixer into your SUBins. This is used to "submix" onto a track. You could assign this to any track (use bus, pan hard left of right) and use the Master Fader to control volume. Then you have 3 more...

dbx is an encoding process. If you record without it and then turn it on, it sounds like shit. If you record with it, it takes out a lot of hiss, but it also takes your hi's, so you gotta up the hi eq. So record with it on. Then listen to it with it off. Mine (414) still has a shit load of...

Depends on your needs. You want 4 track or 8? Digital or Analog? You could get a nice 4-track digital setup. Fostex 4 track and zip drive $450 Rode NT1 $200 ART Tube MP $100 RNC or Behringer compress. $200 3 sm57s $250 Bass drum...

I had Metal Method from Doug Marks. Like it said, it is metal. He teaches basic chords like power, barre, open, 7th, etc. He teaches scales in all positions (I didn't like his method) He teaches about modes. But it's all geared towards metal. I'd get a real teacher so you can learn what...

Behringers and RNC (Really Nice Compressor) by FMR are what everyone recommends. You can read about the RNC on ProRec.

Weens first 3 albums were done on a Tascam 464. (on the first album they later took the 4 track tapes to a studio and put real drums on them, on the others they use a drum machine). Guided by Voices have released SEVERAL albums that were recording mainly on a Tascam Porta 1. Beck did some...

I can't remember them all, but if you have a book store or magazine stand nearby, take a pen and paper and grab EQ, Home Recording, or Recording. Look through them and you'll see a bunch of different ones. Jot down all the 1-800 #s and emails Or just search the web for "The Recording Workshop,"...

Make sure they aren't near a wall wart/transformer/ac adapter. Those things will introduce noise like nobodys business.