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Hey, I have your Tascam feet that spooler sent me from Australia. They are the bottom feet, though, the rectangular ones, not the round ones for the back. ANd, two of the four have cracks. If these aren't the ones you need, I'll hold them for the next needy person. Let me know. ALso, my...

And, in conclusion, ... I picked up the machine. It's been set up for 185 nW/m. Bought some NOS Quantegy 406 on 10.5" reels. The only indication of what might be a date code is "2000319" on the paper label on the box. Is this a date code? I read that pre-1994 and post-2004 are to be...

Thanks Ethan, I knew I could count on you! Please excuse my naivety on this topic, but I take it that 468, 911, and 900 are +3, +6, and +9 tapes, respectively; so for comparison purposes, if my deck operating level is 250 nW/m, I should be recording 486 at 0 Vu, and 911 at +3 Vu, all other...

I will be picking up my new-to-me Teac 3440 from the shop today. I asked for an operating level of 250 nW/m, although he was advocating 320. I'd like your opinion on what the ideal, all around tape for recording live music would be, a tape that is in current production and/or available new. I...

more... is the reel bent or warped, or the hub screws loose? is the reel secured to the reel table properly, i.e., locked and tightened? Can you post a video of this?

You might want to check the motor mounting if the motor itself is loose, you would get similar symptoms. A worn bearing will be unbearable before ou get lots of wobble.

Two words: America Idol. :)

Yea, I felt bad after while asking the question, and then, I didn't want to interrupt. What I get out of this is that impedance bridging is the standard practice, i.e., low source impedance to high load impedance; the transformer is necessary to keep the cable balanced; most convenient...

Price, features, color, ...(?) Street price of the AT4040 is more than double the street price of the B1 ($270 v. $120). B1: 10dB and 20db pad settings; 6 dB high pass settable at 75Hz and 150Hz; 2.5 lb. silver AT4040: 10 dB pad; 8 dB at 80Hz rolloff fiter. 3.2 lb. black But, really, I...

Thanks for the excellent reply! More, ... ...so, I confess I'm embarrassed, since I should know this stuff. Taking the 3440 as an example, the specification is "0.25 mV (-72 dB)/600 Ohms or more." What does that mean? I looked at a modern mic spec, for the AKG Perception 220 (which I have...

Thanks. I may have misunderstood what I need to do here! The -10dB refers to the RCA jack "Line" inputs (on the back), but hte 3440 does indeed have mic inputs on the front, which are 1/4" phone jacks, with a switchable attenuator. Which input should I use, or does it matter?

New to audio engineering, but I've been around electronics for a while. Condenser mic requiring phantom power, 20 to 30' balanced mic cable, into phantom power supply (no mixer yet) and then need an unbalanced 1/4" phone plug for input to a -10dB tape amp (Teac 3440). I've looked at the...

Manual You can supposedly get the manual for the MSR-16 here, for free: http://www.AudioSchematics.com/tascam.html, although I was unable to get a "free download slot" when I tried this a.m.

Yes, within limits. I assume the properties of the old BASF is the same as for the newly manufactured RMG stuff, for both 900 and 911; 911 is a +6dB tape, and SM900 a +9dB tape. If you are calibrated for an operating level that is 0 VU for the SM900 you could use 911 at -3 VU. Do you know the...

Hey, who knows? :) Need to check the owner's manual.

pdf doc I have the service manual in pdf format; I found it online, but I can't remember where. I'll mail it to you. PM me. It doesn't help with the cueing lever. If it is like my 3440, and if I understand your note, the cueing lever, which allows tape-to-head contact while in FF and RW...

Agreed. It's a jungle out there.

You make my point. You can't rely on a curved line to indicate polarity, since - it isn't always used to indicate polarity. A "+" sign is a sure thing. There are standards for symbols: that's what's nice about standards, there are so many to choose from! :)

Ok I confess I don't know what it's worth; but even though Tascam doesn't supply the transformer doesn't mean you can't get a replacement.

With all due respect, that is simply not so. The symbol for a capacitor has always been one curved, one straight line; polarized caps add the "+" sign to the symbol. I've done a lot of circuit design that was captured on everything from paper to high-end cad systems. Typically, the...