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Yep, selling my Tascam 388. Before you read further, I'm selling this for pickup only and I am in the DC metro area--in Gaithersburg MD. I am the second owner of this machine and have treated it very well. This machine is in wonderful working condition. I took it to a tech about a year ago, who...

Hey folks-- I have an early 70s silverface Fender Twin amp that needs some help. At some point it needed a new pair of speakers, and since I really don't know jack about replacing speakers in a guitar amp, I got some Eminence Alpha speakers on the recommendation of a friend. I bought those and...

Hey all-- One of the speakers in my silverface, early-70s Fender Twin just bit the dust. I need a replacement but don't know quite what I want. The speakers in there aren't original. They are 12" Eminence Alphas...and they sound fine but I kind of wonder if they were creating a headroom...

My 388 had been running fine until.... Last night I was just doing some simple tracking and I noticed that the tape counter wasn't counting backwards when I would rewind tape. It will count forward as I play the tape, however. That I could deal with, I guess, but then the thing wouldn't stop...

Here's the deal: I recently refit my Silverface Twin with new tubes and drivers. The drivers I put in are Eminence Alphas. A friend had put the same speakers in his Twin and I liked the sound. I seem to have lost some volume. I have one of the Silverface Twins that has a master volume...

Has anyone ehere ever built a microphone from a 12-inch speaker? I've heard about people using these to record bass drum. I just changed the speakers in my Twin and now have a couple of 12-inch speakers not doing anything but collecting dust. If anyone knows what to do to turn one of these...

There's this radio station where I live that always comes through my guitar amps. (DC area, Maryland side, WTOP if anybody out there is local and feels my pain.) Sometimes the signal is faint, sometimes it's loud and clear. Is there something out there in the way of a noise suppression system...

Hey folks, I bought a 388 last night. It is pretty clean and I'm hoping it'll give me the warm sound I'm looking for...I've been in digital for too long and can't take it anymore. I don't have a manual for the 388. From the look of it, I can figure most everything out--Portastudio days, I...

I was recently lent a box of mics from a friend's uncle. These are more or less on permanent loan. Among the long, DAK electrets and Realistic brand capsules were a couple AKG mics: the D230 and two D120E mics. I was reading about the D230. Said it was an omnidirectional dynamic with an...

I'm looking for a cheap compressor. I have an RNC and love it, but need/want something different in the rack. These dbx models go for so little money at my local shops. Can anyone enlighten me on the differences between the dbx 226a and the dbx 266xl? Thanks.... -rucarlso

So here's something that's been bugging me, I hope someone can straighten it out for me. I don't have much experience with mixers. I want to get a mixer and a Layla and start recording into my computer, but I want to keep the tracks separate. That is, I want to play basic tracks live with a...

Does anybody know if upgrading the software on the KORG D16 hard disk multitracker will erase songs already recorded on the unit? I need to do the upgrade, but I also have a couple works-in-progress I don't want to lose. too risky? -rucarlso

Looking for ideas or just general rules. I have to record a punkish rock band on Sunday and the guitarists (2 of 'em) rock out of half stacks, Marshalls, of course. now, I only have two tracks to devote to both of them--we're just recording demos. I think I'm just going to put a 57 in front...

Anybody have any experience with the M1600 mixer? Looks like a good board, but a friend of mine said it's nickname is the Trashcam, something to do with the EQs. He says they aren't very "sharp." But he produces a lot of electronic music (drum-n-bass, techno, etc) and I'm not sure if he's...

A few weeks ago the cops came by to tell my band we were playing a bit loud. In order to keep the fuzz off my back and in order to keep my neighbors happy, I'm trying to do what I can to keep sound from escaping the basement where we play. The basement is all underground, no walk-out sliding...

I'm borrowing a CAD Equitek E-100 mic from a friend and it has this switch for a -20dB pad. I've read stuff about pads, but I'm yet to get a solid description of what they do. Does the pad just drop the output of the mic by 20dB? I remember reading in TapeOp about how the engineer on the...

Hey nizzles, Wondering if Echo Audio's MIA sound card is any good. As far as numberof inputs go and it's capabilities, the card is pretty much what I'm looking for. But how are the preamps and overall sound quality of the card? I will sometimes be plugging mics directly into it, sometimes...

A shop in my area has had a used Yamaha M508 8 channel mixer for a while and they're not asking a whole lot for it. It's got XLR inputs, phantom power, effects sends and all the good stuff I need. But I'm not sure if it's any good. Has anyone had experience with this board? Info on the...