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Hey there! Any of you people have experience with some old formulation BASF tape? It's called either LH-R, SPR50 or both? I found it as half inch for a ridicously low price. I don't mind if it is a +3 tape, saturation has its uses for certain kinds of music. What I do mind if it's SSS, is...

Many of my favourite albums combine the best of both worlds... the "live feeling" of real people playing a tune together while still having a great sound with proper mic placements, mix tecniques, etc. For instance the first albums by Happy Mondays or The Stooges, most Stones while they were...

As long as ATR is so pricey I'll stick to RMGI SM911 and second hand tape. However if I was still using quarter inch eight track for anything for demos I'd be interested in the tape in question. What I'd really like would be RMGI to start making 468 again... I dig the way the highs are...

Never used a 388 though I had a Model 80 till recently... sounded good to me and nice solid transport for a small Fostex. Sounds almost as good as the Fostex G16.

That's some great advice :thumbs up: Every LED on the entire desk is blinking when the problem is occuring. From then it goes quickly downhill if ignored. If given 20-30 mins. break it's usually fine but depends on something that goes way beyound my knowledge. Ain't the same PSU as mine but...

We had our DDA Q for half a year now and love it's sound. However a serious issue has been occuring more than a few times. It's light will start blinking and if it doesn't get a break it won't pass any sound till it had a break. I suspect either the PSU, the cable between the PSU and the desk or...

Few months ago I had the pleasure of recording a few tunes with this duo. It's a bit similar to The Triffids and Arcade Fire but really they do have their own sound. It's one of my first serious recordings using our DDA Q desk. The reverb on the voice is a mix of ambient reverb of a corridor...

Got the EM300 and had it seven years or so. I love to use it as a preamp, both for its sound and for convience as plugging in several microphones to pick and choose from or using in combination when overdubbing. Love what it does for overloading vocals, percussion and guitars ever so slightly...

It seems in your post you're from the US and I don't know how common they are there but I love our DDA Q. It's clean sounding though definitely not in the boring way and is fully modular which makes repairs and upgrades much easier. People tend to compare them to Midas and Soundcraft. Amazing...

I think you should go for a eight or 16 track by either Fostex or Tascam. My experience with Tascam is very limited but most of their machines do have a good reputation. As for Fostex there's a handfull of eight tracks. The advantage with those is that they run 1/4" tape which can be had for...

I almost always compress on the way in when recording vocals. I'm recording on narrow track tape and this is what works the best as I don't wanna bring the hiss up - it also frees up the compressor for mixdown in case I want parallel compression or something else.

I second much of the advice given as for mics and room. Do you record on tape or on DAW? Untill The White Album they used two four-track machines which meant lots of analogue generations which had coloured the sound. If you're recording on tape try copying the tambourine a couple of times. If...

Thomann got plenty of tape in stock. Here's the LPR35: RMG LPR 35 1/4" 549m Trident - Thomann UK I've recorded on brand new SM911 1/2" a month ago and it was great quality, actually better sounding than what they put out two years ago. Seems the quality is fine from what I know.

Of course it's a bummer in the sense that we have to pay more for our equipment but on the other hand the reversing trend also means that we can expect more contemporary records to sound great. The decline of the big players of the record industry such as the major labels has been an advantage...

Yeah, drop by Århus for beers and coffee on us :-) Havnt had the time to deliver the beast for repair but will happen soon, just need to transfer a tape for some mates who wanna mix in the digital domain.

Wow, thanks a million Miroslav - thats extremely generous of you, you truly saved my ass with this one. Owe you a huge favour. Man, I love this forum! People like you make a major contribution in keeping proper recording alive and well.

Hey guys... the G16C is still causing headache. Does anyone of you have the whole manual in digital format? Our tech is watching this thread. The problem is that the erase head won't go any further than 12 milivolt and it's supposed to go to 85. I'll give a virtual round of beer to anyone who...

There's some valuable advice there guys, thanks a bunch. And yeah, it's the version with Dolby C. I'll send this thread to the tech and I'm sure he'll get it running.

Does anyone of you have a service manual for the regular G16 without the "S" or even better a straight up solution to our issue? One of our G16's won't erase properly on all tracks and our tech who's usually a wizard can't figure out how to sort it. He's been looking for a service manual all...

Hahaha... good observations here. In an ideal world we wouldn't have all that ridicoulus feticism mostly driven by vanity and prestige. In a less-than-ideal though more interesting world I'd sure pay good money for leftovers of Keith Richards' smack from the "Exile On Main Street" and snort it...