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Let us be unburdened by that which has been ?
My tech tells me that a couple of the Dolby amp cards were bad on my MSR-16. They were also marked with an X in marker, so someone knew about it, likely the guy a bought it from on ebay, a sound engineer in San Francisco area that ebays by the name of "nob turner", Gary M. by name (forget the last name but have it written somewhere). Buyer beware of this guy.
Anyway, the tech ordered capacitors or transistors (sorry for my lack of electronic knowledge) or both, and believes these are a likely culprit and they can be replaced, thus repairing the faulty cards or signal path through them. If this doesn't work, and after pondering getting another deck and selling this without NR fully functioning or (gulp) purchasing an Alesis HD24, I think I will learn to deal with it via grouping the "good" cards into the front 10 channels and the three bad ones on chs 12-16, recording onto the "good" Dolby channels and bouncing tracks. Or maybe explore not using NR at all. I haven't recorded a lot on the MSR since I got it, but what recording I've done without the NR buttons engaged surprisingly didn't seem too noisy. My tech says another option is to buy an outboard 2 channel NR unit and only use NR during mixdown to two tracks.
Any thoughts or similar experiences you might offer?
Unfortunately I won't get this back until after the new year, and my fingers are crossed that all will be well after the tech does his magic and NR will be fully functional on all channels again. Even if not, I can't part with the machine. I dig the sound too much.
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Happy Holidays, Happy Festivus to everyone!
Anyway, the tech ordered capacitors or transistors (sorry for my lack of electronic knowledge) or both, and believes these are a likely culprit and they can be replaced, thus repairing the faulty cards or signal path through them. If this doesn't work, and after pondering getting another deck and selling this without NR fully functioning or (gulp) purchasing an Alesis HD24, I think I will learn to deal with it via grouping the "good" cards into the front 10 channels and the three bad ones on chs 12-16, recording onto the "good" Dolby channels and bouncing tracks. Or maybe explore not using NR at all. I haven't recorded a lot on the MSR since I got it, but what recording I've done without the NR buttons engaged surprisingly didn't seem too noisy. My tech says another option is to buy an outboard 2 channel NR unit and only use NR during mixdown to two tracks.
Any thoughts or similar experiences you might offer?
Unfortunately I won't get this back until after the new year, and my fingers are crossed that all will be well after the tech does his magic and NR will be fully functional on all channels again. Even if not, I can't part with the machine. I dig the sound too much.

Oh yeah, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Happy Holidays, Happy Festivus to everyone!
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