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I thought I'd give this its own thread, not that I have much to say about it.... but maybe someone else does..:) as for the RNLA, I still need some time with it, its new for me, I was stuck out here without a mic compressor, so I sprang for it as there's not much else in the $-range that's...

Hi, So I've read a bit about peoples perspectives on running the +9 (or higher) range of tapes (Q 499 / SM-900 / ATR) with the 'semi-pro' format tape decks (1/2" 8-track, or 1/4" half track) and why its not always possible or advantageous. What ARE the 'semi-pro' half-track decks that could...

hi everyone, I'm getting ready to leave the country for 2 months. I'm subletting my place to a friend and putting all my gear in a closet that will be relatively temperature / humidity controlled. I'm thinking of storing the 388 on its side so it stands tall leaning slightly against a wall...

Hey everyone - I'm still getting on great with my 388, but eventually I'll be getting the 38 going - I found a DX8 to go with it, and later i'll get a better monitor mixer to use it with the 388 mixer... - but something I'm noticing when i play the 38 is that there is rather a bit of...

Hi everyone, recording with the 388 today I notice now that signal on channel 1 is extremely low - so much so that at first I thought there was nothing at all - but it is possible to hear the recording if its pumped all the way (adding eq etc.). so for perspective, when I get a level into the...

Anyone know how stable this stuff is? It must be from '85 or '87. Is it still safe to use or not worth it? I like the cans though - I guess I didn't show anything size relative in the photo, but they are about the size of a red bull, though a little wider.

I found this thread and saw the videos there:https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=2932249 pretty explicit (and helpful:)) i'm using a piece of the rmg lpr35 (same that i'm using to record with) and the weight that came with the tentelometer (it says "1" on the side and theres a slip...

I wanted to get some perspective / stories about using high eq boost going to tape, particularly if people have settled on any standards that they like for their machine/particular setup/particular instruments/ whatever. as particular as possible would be interesting: what freq., how much...

thanks Ethan, for the clear ideas, and the suggestion to follow the schematic (and the extra info on the inner workings of capacitors!). It does appear to be the case that the silk screen is an 'anomaly', but its only partially incorrect, I now see. I've been looking at the black circle...

exactly why I'd like to be sure of whats going on here, if the polarity on Exhibit B is important and the capacitor in place is running opposite polarity to what the PCB / Component Placement Drawing is suggesting, well, it's an obvious problem. :confused:I guess you thought I was talking about...

on one of my PCBs i find a capacitor that is not sitting with its polarity the same as the others (edit: i.e., it's in backwards, the actual capacitor is in reverse to what the board has printed). I immediately assumed this must be some kind of capacitor where polarity doesn't matter, but now i...

hey congratulations on the SMT cap fix! :cool: are these the silver ones (c12, c14, c15 etc.)? I've got a busted capstan motor card on mine as well, but its corrosion, not the usual speed / 'jet engine sound' problem. I was cleaning it and inspecting to see what might be wrong and R11 came...

hi Tom, thanks for the input and the sound advice. for issue #1 (vu meter not 'switching'), your "switch/relay" idea seems plausible and would lead me to guess on checking out the "monitor pcb ass'y". (I'm almost there , not quite...) maybe something in the record enable button switches this...

yes, I like to have a few on hand myself...:D about using the one as a belt - it was rather less tight than the new belt, but rather more than the stretched old one, so I figure it would be fine as long as it lasted, which from reading accounts of rubber bands used on turntables could be from...

There are two different issues here. In practice I COULD work around the first (though it’d be nice to fix ‘er up right) and the second is rather more of a handicap in practice. Issue #1: Track 5 meter does not read on record function enabled (red light on track 5). So no monitoring of input...

i've been experimenting with some DIY spring reverb configurations using accutonics tanks and have picked up a couple old reverb mixers to have something to compare with sonically, experiment with swapping tanks etc.- and also hopefully to have the option to use one of the mixers as stand alone...

here's a little amateurish frequency analysis test I conducted on my machines and found interesting: Hope you can see it ok. ignore the volume level - unless noted they were hit to tape at 0db. the Tascam decks are getting roughly the same VU level on input as playing from tape with the...

yes, in the end my obsessive compulsive "just need to play with it now" disorder got the best of me. the tape transport panel and the side sashes are back on - I pulled it apart enough to slake my curiosity, put some sewing machine oil on the tension arm rollers & pinch roller shafts (this...

(another) Tascam 388 Story... So, I’ve been following here for a while, and not as an idle onlooker, but rather out of self interest – it seems I now have a Tascam 388 story of my own…. [What with the building progression in the last weeks of research, following the other stories here, mounting...

Hi, I looked around for info on this and found some mention of it causing problems when it gets all over, but what do people replace these with? I couldn't find a part on my manual either (though it could somehow be there that I didn't see...:o) is there a common substitution that people...