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Hello analogophiles, I've just been beginning recording on my Tascam 38 system. Started having a problem today where the feed reel was clipping one of those large screws that stick out on the side and the takeup reel was scraping against the side of the tape. So using my manual I followed all...

I bought a Tascam 38 Reel-To-Reel recorder about a year ago, and after a lot of fixups finally got it working. The problem is that the Ramsa mixing board I got with the reel-to-reel sounds like crap - doesn't have any headroom, so everything sounds muffled and weak. My next question is what sort...

I'm not quite a newbie (in fact have been recording for over 10 years), but I do feel awfully stupid to ask this question. I have a Tascam 38 r2r which I am just now getting around to setting up (it's my first) and I'm trying to hook it up to a 10-track mixing board. The mixing board has 3 input...

Hi friends, So I purchased a 38 about a month ago, and the initial problem was the deterioration of the pinch roller. I got the pinch roller re-rubbered to specification and it looks great, but for some reason whenever I load tape it still seems to just lock up after I hit play. There seems to...

Hello my analog freak friends, I started out my recording career as a Portastudio cassetter, and have moved to digital for the past five years and am ready to finally return to more serious analog. I want to start with a Tascam 38, and there are two offers I'm seriously debating right now. I...

I'm sure this has been asked many times and I see many assorted threads that all seem to be along the same lines. Now that analog recording is becoming a dead art, I think it is worthwhile that we are able to maintain it, like the Catholic Church maintained Latin for centuries after it ceased...

I'm on the verge of tears. No, I don't care if that admission effeminates me. I have looked all over the non-eBay web and have learned that all analog multi-tracks seem to have been discontinued, including mainstays like the TASCAM 414 and even the crappier cassette Portastudios. I haven't...

Hi, I've gone through three Portastudios in seven years, as I use them a lot and eventually the cost of repairing them gets to the point where I might as well just buy a new one. My third track stopped working the other day (it just has a loud electrical buzz and does not play back any...

I'm self-producing my own music and I have several question regarding how I can get the best mix on my music. The music I make is very dense and layered, lots of vocal harmonies, varied instruments and polyrhythms, kind of weird and experimental art-pop. My gear is rather "budget" - I use a...

Over the past four years I've recorded about 12 CDs of music. Almost everything I have ever done was recorded on 4 track (Tascam Portastudio 414). I have become very good at getting a halfway decent sound from the 4 track, but now I'm getting more serious and have begun using the computer and...