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Cannot stress enough that you must clean the heads before every recording session, no way around it mate - and let it dry for two minutes or so. The narrower the tracks the more important this is and the 388 is 1/8" eight track, about as narrow as it gets. If the machine havn't seen use for...

Thanks mate, I'll recieve it tonight and start hooking it up. Can't wait :-) I'll probably be back with questions later on. It has two channels that doesn't work but the price is right.

Do you want to use at as a preamp, a summing mixer or both? If mostly for preamp use the Yamaha EM300 and EM150 is great as it has a great character to it. Wouldn't call it lo-fi as it has a rich, defined but somehow dirty sound to it. However it's an ancient live desk with no mute buttons so...

In a huge dilemma as for mixing desks. We plan on retirering our Fostex 820 in favour of something more profesional and flexible. We're on a budget of around 800 euro and the choice seems to be between two front of house live desks, both with sufficient direct outs and subgroups which makes...

Wow Jason, that's really good! Has some "Rebel Rebel" by Bowie to the guitar. I really dig the playfull, weird hihat and the reverse reverb. The psychedelic rock band I'm in just finished our third album, will be out on a 12" in two months. This time we've abonded the marathon length...

We finally finished recording our album and will release it during spring. This is one of the tracks, speedy psychedelia with loads of percussion. The album won't be mastered as heavy as this one, heavy mastering just kindda makes sense for YouTube with playlists and stuff. Apologies for the...

Could be a number of things. Is it recieving a signal when in input monitor mode?

Thanks for the advice, sounds very reasonable. First step I've replaced the old hifi amp we used as a monitoring system as it's notorious for going crazy with pops, clicks and even squeels at time. It might be interacting with the soundcard somehow. How important is the distance between the...

Hello fellow tapeheads... I've got a really annoying issue that have been going on for quite a while. When mixing down from tape to 2-track digital (M Audio Fast Track in lack of better) I often discover small clicks that ain't on the recording and is only audible on headphones or on earth...

Not a bad plan at all though I'd avoid putting lead vocals and an overhead on the edge tracks as they're prone to dropoffs and poorer high frequency response. Not at least at 7,5 ips 1/4". I'd but the bass drum on track one, overheads on two and three for the sake of logic and then the backing...

Might be the input monitor function being enabled?

As the title says I wonder excactly is going on with the loudness button. Compression, added lows and highs? Asking as I love the character this function adds on amps from Sansui and Bang & Olufssen and thinking that it'd make sense to ask a mastering engineer to do something similar though more...

Found a shop in Denmark that had a few SM900 left. Would like to try ATR but they're simply too expensive.

Thanks for the valuable advice guys! Was aware of the mono bass thing and we're usually mixing that way. Though I wonder how sixties records was cut, they sometimes have the bass hard panned.

Hey there! This is my first post on the mastering site, hope you can help me out. The band I'm in have been messing around with a record for quite a while. One of my bandmates wants to put a really bass heavy song as the final track on side one and as it stands the side will be around 22 mins...

Thanks JP :) Good to know they work on semi pro decks and the G16 has a quite heavy transport. But yeah, they're massively expensive and I do like a bit of saturation on certain instruments which might be impossible to achieve on such high bias tapes.

Hey fellow tapeheads! Was wondering if you could help me save my lazy hippie ass once again... Thomann has run out of RMGI SM 911 and 900 1/2" tapes again and I got a recording job in late September. Anyone knows how a decent webshop in Europe who has them at the moment? NOS Quantegu 456 or BASF...

Recently I've been recording my mates in Morgan Square. They've put down some ace song and their EP will be released early august. As usual its been recorded on a Fostex G16 and mixed in the analogue domain. I aimed for a dryer sound than I normally do but there's a fair deal of spring reverb...

It's worth a try buying a fresh tape from RMGI. SM911 is similar to 456 and no calibration is needed. The SM900 you're looking at would work too but they're a little thicker than 456/911 and will increase the amount of wear on your machine. I'll say it's worth the extra money to buy a brand new...

Just to be very clear on this subject: at first make sure you're not using an Ampex 456 made in California. If it's made in Alabama and has it's logo on the bottom it's likely to be fine but before getting into cleaning the motor try with a BASF/EMTEC/RMGI SM911 or a Quantegy labelled 456. I'm...