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If you would PM me a DL link that would be amazing. The first Owners Manual you mention isn't very good, and I've always been on the lookout for the other untitled one you mention here. I do remember seeing one of them come up for sale sort of recently (within the last year) and I wanted to buy...

Not even a guess lol

Hey all! First off, I haven't been coming around for a couple years and it's good to be back. Glad to see some familiar names still posting and helping people (shout out to Sweetbeats, famous beagle, cjacek) So, to my problem... For the last year or so I have been working around an issue with...

Hate to be a buzzkill but these cassettes aren't very good. They're manufactured by NAC, which produced this formula after 4 years of trial and error and it doesn't have a great reputation. These Tascam cassettes are collectors items and that's about it. $22 a tape is WAY overpriced and they...

Hey everybody! Been a little while since I logged in but I just released a collection of home recordings. I put out music under the Free Country and this album is called Fast Asleep 2009 to 2012 I, shockingly, recorded these songs in those years with a Tascam DP02, Tascam 246, and mixdowned to...

Nobody has been inside one of these before? About to throw in the towel

Hey guys, I'm resurrecting this old thread because I started a project to calibrate my 22-2 tonight and ran into some pretty heavy problems. I don't find any info on the web about this (shocker!) so I thought it would be helpful to document the process (for good or ill) here. I am using the...

I bought an R8 to replace my Model 80. This is the first thing I recorded on it. Still using that terrible Fostex 450 mixer though... Need another mixer. "Stockholm Syndrome" by Free Country | Free Listening on SoundCloud

I've been demoing a bunch and keeping things simple with my 246 and a Rode NT2A. No muss, no fuss. This is a spacey thing called "Atone (Fer Ali Boulala)" I watched an old Baker skate VHS and then wrote this. Atone (For Ali Boulala) / INSTRUMENTAL by Free Country | Free Listening on SoundCloud

That's so cool that you have a Tascam headquarters that actually can offer some type of service. I've never had any luck with the one here in the states, and I heard that it may have closed. Anyways, good luck with the trimmer. Keep us posted

I love the Capture 930. My goto for tracking these days. Awesome stuff with a nice punchy and clear sound.

Do 4-track heads really get wear like reel to reel? I've never had any tape wear problems on any of my machines, even the ones I used constantly before even knowing we were supposed to be cleaning the transport. I figured the slow tape speed wouldn't do that, and if it did it would take tons and...

I have had the Slate Everything Bundle for a while now and it includes the Tape Machines plug in so I am selling the one I bought. Buyer gets the license transferred to them for full ownership. You will need an iLok. You can email me directly at johnjay26@gmail.com

Haha! Thanks for putting our minds at ease :laughings: What do you mean that the eq pot is playing up?

Foreign Cars by Free Country | Free Listening on SoundCloud More Portastudio excursions. This is a song called "Foreign Cars," from my next album Drug Dreams. This is another recording that I mix ITB and then master to tape at 15ips. If you like it, please follow me on FB at The Wonderful...

Me too, and I tried replacing the top pcb board but it didn't do the trick so I just replaced the whole thing. I've never had a counter fail like that and I hope it's the last time. I was so happy to get it working that I recorded a song that I'm really happy with, and then noticed that the red...

Replaced the counter, along with the whole control board and compartment from my parts machine and got it lit up! I know you were all losing sleep over this so I just wanted to let you know

Thanks jp, I'll check out the video. Of all the things to fail on this thing, the counter was the last thing I expected. I've seen machines that have sat for 20 years in a dusty basement fire up with nothing but the counter lighting up, so I'm wondering if it's a loose or fried wire? I don't...

I turned my 246 on last night and while I was setting up the mic level for the first track I noticed that the LED tape counter isn't on. I didn't notice if it was lit up when I turned the machine on, but it's definitely not working. I turned the machine on and off a couple times and pressed the...

Glad u got it working. I just spent a half hour on The Bottle Garden site reading about yr gear and that Studer link story. Very cool place you have there. Next time I'm in Montreal I'll look it up.