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The Ghost of FM
Banned
Gosh, what a shock!
Cheers!
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purerad
New member
wonder how well they actually sync together?
briank
analog for the people!
A client was just telling me about the old Sansui cassette trackers (in a convo about 424mkIIIs). I'd never seen the Sansuis before, so it's funny you post this!
sweetbeats
Reel deep thoughts...
They DON'T! Heheh...how's that?
One deck is the multitrack and one is the quarter-track mixdown deck.
I'd thought of doing the same thing and racking my Tascam BR-20T up in one of the lower console racks of my Ampex MM-1000.
Then it'd be JUST like the Sansui except the Sansui doesn't have wheels on it...
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purerad
New member
wow, that's different! tons of different solutions to the same problem eh?
sweetbeats
Reel deep thoughts...
Or simply fodder for the easily entertained like me!
Richard King
New member
An old customer/friend of mine uses one of those all the time for writing music. This guy plays in a local club every Sunday evening and has another gig or two during the week. He wants to be a rock star when he grows up. Here's a video I shot of him a couple of years ago.
shedshrine
Member
Was hoping that second cassette well was some proprietary high speed mixdown deck that used the entire width of the tape for your stereo master mix storage.
lo.fi.love
Functionally obsessed.
Why not just use a computer for recording?
(ducks)
(ducks)
Talldog
Pain in the ass
I seem to remember a Sansui 6 track cassette. You can record on computers? 
shedshrine
Member
Well duh! But the Sansui deck came out long before Type II High Bias super avilyn fine particle coated daw interface rca and 1/4" inputs were even available. Geez..newbies.
lo.fi.love
Functionally obsessed.
Well duh! But the Sansui deck came out long before Type II High Bias super avilyn fine particle coated daw interface rca and 1/4" inputs were even available. Geez..newbies.
I'm sure Monster Cable makes those now. Thank God!
shedshrine
Member
Amen, brother.
sweetbeats
Reel deep thoughts...
Geez, guys...I wall all set to try and throw out some brilliantly clever (to me) wisecrack and then I read the last two posts...forget it.
But I DO wish there was some halftrack 3 3/4ips mastering unit that used the Philips cassette. I suppose there was no reason to do that since in its heydey 1/4" tape was cheap and so readily available...the standard. I guess I just think it'd be cool to have a portable rack loaded with a 238 and a 122-2HS...that's what they'd have to call it because I said so (borrowed Tascam's moniker for the wide format ATR60 halftrack and 4-track decks, the 1/2" ATR60-2HS and 1/2" 4-track 4HS...)
Hm...I guess its a format that just makes no sense though...only phreaks with a 2HS would have any use for the format...so then I'd have been lobbying for them to make one for the car...and then maybe Sony would've gotten on the bandwagon and made a 2HS walkman...they totally missed out...
Back to reality...
But I DO wish there was some halftrack 3 3/4ips mastering unit that used the Philips cassette. I suppose there was no reason to do that since in its heydey 1/4" tape was cheap and so readily available...the standard. I guess I just think it'd be cool to have a portable rack loaded with a 238 and a 122-2HS...that's what they'd have to call it because I said so (borrowed Tascam's moniker for the wide format ATR60 halftrack and 4-track decks, the 1/2" ATR60-2HS and 1/2" 4-track 4HS...)
Hm...I guess its a format that just makes no sense though...only phreaks with a 2HS would have any use for the format...so then I'd have been lobbying for them to make one for the car...and then maybe Sony would've gotten on the bandwagon and made a 2HS walkman...they totally missed out...
Back to reality...
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Beck
Guest
These Sansui models were great when they came out. Two extra tracks, especially when you use one to sync MIDI stuff makes a huge difference.
And yeah I agree and have ranted before about the industry completely missing the potential for half-track cassette @ double speed for mixdown. Remember… Type II cassette has greater fidelity than normal bias cassette or reel-to-reel, so a high bias cassette running at x2 speed is really something more than it seems at first glance. Well, think about it… Type II cassette at double speed made the cassette multitrack possible. And not only possible, but also sounding pretty damn good in the right hands.
It would have been just as doable as the multitrack cassette, which of course with it’s non-standard speed was a risky venture for TEAC, but it paid off and really transformed the home studio as we know it. I think a half-track cassette mixdown deck would have been super. I still scratch my head wondering why it never happened.
And yeah I agree and have ranted before about the industry completely missing the potential for half-track cassette @ double speed for mixdown. Remember… Type II cassette has greater fidelity than normal bias cassette or reel-to-reel, so a high bias cassette running at x2 speed is really something more than it seems at first glance. Well, think about it… Type II cassette at double speed made the cassette multitrack possible. And not only possible, but also sounding pretty damn good in the right hands.
It would have been just as doable as the multitrack cassette, which of course with it’s non-standard speed was a risky venture for TEAC, but it paid off and really transformed the home studio as we know it. I think a half-track cassette mixdown deck would have been super. I still scratch my head wondering why it never happened.