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I just want to test the waters... if you guys who have had or currently have a Tascam 388 and you simply don't use it much (in my case it hasn't been used in at least a year, probably 2), would you be comfortable selling it to make some money or do you think you'd instantly regret it? I'm not...

I need a little help; I reorganized my basement studio 'live' room and I'm running into confusion when it comes to patchbay usage... I bought an old rolling rack case from a buddy of mine a while back and just got around to using it. In the rack I have my Yamaha P2100, Yamaha SPX900...

I came here with a question about something but decided I should probably post some pictures of my progress... I'm in the middle of doing a full-on recap of the unit. Just for some history, I got this unit probably 6 or 7 years ago (maybe more I can't remember) from a friend of mine who I...

I pulled my 244 out the other day and after it destroyed a cassette, realized the heads were stuck and won’t drop in stop mode. I also noticed the control motor for the head assembly wasn't spinning when the machine is powered on. Belts have been replaced already. I pulled the belt off the...

I think I know where to go with this, but I wanted to bounce it off you guys first to see if I'm on the right track (no pun intended). This 38 has been a thorn in my side for so long and I think I finally have it 'working' to the point of actually using it. A friend of mine gave me a reel of...

Boy, where do I begin... I guess for anyone who's willing to listen, I'll write it anyway because I'm sure the act of writing it will clear my head some. I wrote a huge post back several months ago regarding my divorce but I'm going to spare myself the aggravation of acting as if anyone is...

I haven't written much about this since it happened, but I found myself in the divorce boat :facepalm: And i'm pretty bummed out about it. This is a woman I've been with for 10 years and had 2 kids with (more on that in a sec) during our marriage. we did everything right; married, bought the...

Guys, I want to offer this here and see if anyone is interested. I've recently been going through an unexpected divorce and while I don't need to sell anything, I may have to downsize if I don't keep my current house and know I just won't have the time to tinker with it anymore so... I'm...

Curious what you might think this is - if I let the deck sit for a while, or overnight, I'll go back to play the tape but the headstack just doesn't want to engage. I pulled the little cover off over the heads and forced it manually, and it then starts working, so I'm 'assuming' something needs...

I thought I would publicly honor Mr. Sweetbeats for helping me get my Tascam M-308 mixer back in working order, because while I'm super handy with a soldering iron, I just don't have the skill to figure out schematics. Just a little rambling history, if you will.... the original problem was...

I know it's been discussed before but I was thrown off about some of the talk regarding making sure you do not record in Repro mode while using the 388 mixer. I didn't think you recorded in Repro mode technically anyway? I want to get clarification on that either way and what the dangers are...

(I will preface this with: if this is in the wrong category I apologize but let me know in the future where such threads should go) So I have this Tascam 38 and M-308 mixer that I've been hanging on to and really don't use. The mixer, besides one of the tape input channels, works fine. The 38...

Guys, I need to get a digital oscilloscope for my workbench. I have a Tek 2230 that I got for free from one of my clients a while back, and I 'guess' it works fine but I'd never really know because I have nothing else to compare it to, and it was left in storage for a number of years and is...

I have a 12 year old Firepod I want to upgrade. I am interested in the Focusrite Clarett 8pre but not sold on the Thunderbolt idea just yet; they seem few and far between. USB 2.0 would work fine seeing as how I'm coming off a Firewire 400 interface, adapted into my 2011 Mac Mini i7. I've...

I've had a D1000e for a while now that the capsule shakes around because the foam deteriorated and my guess is the previous owner scraped out whatever was in there. What kind of foam could I use to replicate what was originally in there? I'd put any old foam in there but I don't want to create...

In the midst of working on the 38 issues I pulled out my 244 to play with, which works fine other than it say idle for a bit too long and the function belt hung up a bit, requiring me to remove it and put it back on... Otherwise it's good and works great. The DBX does pump quite a bit, and I...

Ok, 38 experts... I dug out my Tascam 38 tonight after more than 4 years in the hopes that I might finally be able to get it working, or at least do a better job of assessing the issues. In truth, the unit hasn't worked 100% since I got it back in 2009. I've done a considerable amount of...

I'm very excited that I got this done and even more importantly, everything works. It wasn't without fail though. Yesterday, through a complete state of confusion, I "parallel" jumped every one of my PB-32 modules. Turned out, that was a huge mistake and created a feedback loop. The stupid...

Anyone here have one of the Tascam PB units that could confirm for me what the default setting is on the unit? I'm trying to connect my compressors to it as a preliminary test to see what happens and when I route my Access Send and Receive (from a particular channel) to the rear of the...

Not sure if this is a dumb question or not... On the 388, is it possible to "chain" the Access send/rcv jacks to route a compressor across multiple channels simultaneously? Still trying to visualize it, not sure how to implement what I'm asking, but I know I can't send a compressor through the...