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Why not just use the portastudio for mastering. Record it digitaly and then send it to tape for mastering. If you have the right sound card then all the inputs of the portastudio can be used. I happened to come across an tascam 8 track cassette deck a while back, though I accidently shortchanged...

At the time, I was thinking I could do something interesting and worthy whith my little cassette portastudio, but it would not fit into the playlist on the radio. I personaly think there is a bit of a myth in regards to what is regarded to be popular commercial music. Certaintly the advent of...

I still have my Yamaha MD4, but I find listening fatigue is the problem whith it.:eek: It does not have optical out or USB transfer and getting hold of a few extra data disk seems to be hard. Mine will record and play normal disk's in stereo of course. I suppose you would not get much recording...

Probably hard to beleive? Its easy enough to mike things up and bounce down a few tracks, but a bit harder to get a spot on performance, especially the first track? The tape might have had a backing track all ready recorded for them by the time they got into the studio to put the first track...

Iv been pondering about picking up a bulk eraser for quarter inch tape for stereo recording, but reel2reel has an erasing head too. So, by using bulk eraser the tape would have been erased twice when making that next recording. ---

Is there any advantage in erasing tapes whith an external tape eraser? Would it improve the tape for recording or would it make it worse? ---

At the end of chain whith mastering I would go for that analog sound by putting it through a tube compressor/limiter or maybe to tape. Something like that I suppose ----

A Fostex 8 track reel2reel for $400 sounds good to me, if its in good condition.:D A good desciption and pictures might help, or even better checking it out personally. You should google around to see what fostex spare parts are about before you open your wallet? Half inch machine might be...

Cause they look good and dress up that fancy deck.:D Have you seen those Metal shell ones where you can change the cassette reel in them. They can get expensive too.:D Even though they don't realy make tape anymore there is still plenty for recording. ---