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give it a REALLY good cleaning first and see if that helps with the muffled sounding recording. I had the same problem with mine and I just cleaned it really well with 91% alchohol. I tested mine out using the wrong kind of tape (sm900 on trs8 setup for 456) it sounded good enough that I could...

it was only up for a couple hours from what i can tell. He listed the starting bid at 250 and the buy it now was also 250. i wonder if he made a mistake... i'll bet a 1/2" four track sounds amazing. thats quite a bit of tape per track.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=011&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=320087683950&rd=1&rd=1 does that seem like an insanely good deal or am I crazy?

Success! YES! I am very happy right now. I bought a roll of RMG sm900 (the only new tape i could find locally) cleaned the heads very thoughly with 91% alchohol and cotton pads and now recording sounds as good as the day I bought it! I was going to replace my machine, but the great advice i've...

I use an allen&heath mixwizard 3 for my tascam 8 track and it works great. Its a 16 channel mixer with direct outs on each channel. Its nice because you can send 8 signals out with the first 8 tracks, and use the other 8 to get a perfect mix in the monitors/headphones. It has good effects and...

wow. i bought tape directly from this guy 2 years ago during the drought. He was nice enough on the phone: "Do you have 1/2" 456?" "Sure, ive got a whole warehouse full" "good, I was worried i wouldn't be able to find any" "don't worry, I'll keep analog recording alive" hmm I thought...

here: http://www.usrecordingmedia.com/whtashius.html

what about sm468? that should work fine with a machine biased for 456 right?

it definately has a unique sound, thats all i'll say.

Im having Deja Vu

thats good news. im having trouble finding 456 or SM911 locally, but the SM900 seems to be plentiful.

wow very cool- Thanks!

I recently found out that the album "Hairway to Steven" by the Butthole Surfers was recorded on digital equipment in the mid 1980's. I have always thought that this album had a very unique sound, almost an artificial sound. if you have heard it, you know what i mean. Does anyone know what kind...

If a tape machine (specifically a TSR-8) is set to use 456 tape, and one were to put a (brand new) tape like 499 or SM-900 on the machine simply for the purpose of diagnosing whether the record head is functioning properly, could this cause any damage? is the bias difference so extreem that it...

i think i was watching the auction where you bought the machine. it was a guy in new york right? didn't it say on that auction that he had re-biased the machine to 996 and that he is an electronics tech...

Am I the only one here who has never used noise reduction on any of my recordings?

Congrats! did you get it off ebay? because i was watching a lot of those auctions... I just bought a couple of HOSA snakes at guitar center that go from 1/4" to rca for my tsr-8. i think they were only like $20 each, but i cant remember. I hate to say this, but i am having a similar problem...

Did some more testing- heres what i found: 1- The heads were filthy. 2- FF and REW work fine. 3- playback works fine- previous recordings sound crisp and clear. 4- Recording is awful. After cleaning the heads, i plugged in a mixer and a mic and tested tracks 1 and 2. The VU meter lights up...

should i avoid 456 from now on? is there a safer kind of tape that wouldn't require re-biasing? how about 406 or 499? should i try a different company? dave- the 388 has been tempting me for a long time and ive heard nothing but good things about it. however i have the same skeptisism about...

ok- so.... first i'll go ahead and clean the heads- i doubt they will be free of the grime that beck mentioned. what about tapes that i have already recorded that i bought from the same place? they didn't give me problems before- should i test them out or could this cause even more damage? its...