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Haha! I bet. Maxell announced that they're out of the tape business in the US so all the type 1 UR that's on the shelves not will be it. I will miss seeing cassettes in stores. On the other hand, National Audio Company is going to be putting out their own formula type II very soon, and I've...

Are you buying it RFR? If I lived closer to him I would be selling off gear right now to be able to pay for it. That really is one of the nicer machines I've seen and to know it's been once over'd by Beats is even better.

That's awesome. I got the songs today and will listen to em tomorrow. Do you live in the US? If so, you can buy 10 packs of type I tape through National Audio Company for really great prices. It's awesome tape too. Regardless, ebay always has cheap type I bricks for sale too.

Nice! That would never happen to me either until the last couple weeks where I've run into two different score of old tape at thrift stores (and I look a lot). On a side note, be careful with the longer length tape as it's thinner and prone to stretch and tear with a lot of FF and RW. Now that...

I've never met a shy drummer!

It's been mentioned before, but I think you'd be helping out owners of these things if you maybe ran a Criagslist ad offering repairs etc for this era of Tascam stuff. These threads are yr referrals.

Whoa. I would've thought the bass would be fuller now as type I typically has better low frequency response (down to 50Hz in some cases). I think that was only the really upper quality type I "super ferrics" though, which the last remaining tape being made, the Maxell UR is not. I dubbed off 8...

There's a sweet spot between pre amp and 4-track that is different with every model of both, plus what type of mic yr using. Go nuts and find it. The screen shouldn't be that far away if yr singing really quiet so see what happens when you move it closer as well. I don't really like to recommend...

There's plenty of new and incredible music coming out. Amen Dunes Love, Mikal Cronin MCII, War On Drugs Slave Ambient and Lost In The Dream, Beach House's last 4 albums... Music only stops being exciting and new when you aren't aware of it. Anyways, why be ashamed of liking anything, ever...

This is an example of a 388 that would be justified if priced around $1650. They sell for up to 2K here in NYC and that's only with nothing but a "works good" in description.

I might be some grease that hardened between some gears or a pulley. If you can, start taking it apart and see if you can find the stuck gear. This happened to a Porta of mine and I went looking through the whole transport and found that the grease between the flywheel for the capstan and a gear...

I was gonna say the same stuff. With a mic pre you shouldn't be having trouble hearing the take no matter how low you sing. Where's yr trim knob at on the 424? I have a quiet voice too, and I used to have trouble getting good levels when I only had a sm57 plugged straight into a 424 as there...

I read old threads from this site for years before I finally joined, and many of the ones that I remember helping me the most were the ones started by him. Thanks for being so open and sharing with yr knowledge. That's what makes this place preferable to some other places out there. The awesome...

Oh, I'm not in a position to buy this beautiful machine. I was just saying if we lived closer I'd definitely want to. I'd start selling off gear right now to be able to swing it by the time you got done putting the touches to it. The shipping is exactly my point too. First off, I worked at UPS...

Right on! That's awesome. If I was closer to you I would so be interested in this. Shipping cross country would add too much to the price for me to be able to realistically consider it though, and I'd be nervous about UPS and would want to do it freight, which would probably be around $450. Ugh...

I didn't know that you were sure they were relapped. That's good. I was saying that maybe the seller knew because when the head are done the tech will tell you in the report how much head life is left. At least, they did when I had mine done, and it was 60%. Hopefully this machine will continue...

I have a 244 manual if you need. PM me so I remember. All I require of you is to go to my Soundcloud page and comment on 7 songs of yr choosing, saying things like "I have now been to the promised land," "This is beautiful," and, well, I don't want to tell you too much to write. Just pepper...

I had a feeling. Wow! Good for you. You still have the one you fixed up right? If so, are you still going to sell this one? Those heads look like they have 60-70% head life left on em. I'd be curious to know if they were relapped too. Maybe email the seller. The head guards don't have a ton of...

Man, this place is pretty lonely. Not many people wanting to talk about Fostex stuff haha! Personally, I love the older analog Fostex stuff. From the sound (great to pretty bad), to the look (gray and orange make awesome!), finding a well taken care of Fostex 8-track is one of life's great...

Hopefully, it'll only need some minor repairs. Seems like the owner might not be in touch with what these have been selling for as they might have to sell it for even more (and probably have gotten it.) Last summer I saw an ad for one that said "For sale. 388 8-track. Old machine from the days...