Settin up with a 424 portastudio

[AaronRead]

I have a Tascam 424 portastudio. I want to just have really warm sounding recordings on this thing so I was wondering if anybody had any advice for a set up. right now I own a shure 58 an AKG C1000S and a rhde Nt1A. I realize that the NT1A is phantom power (so is the AKG but it has battery option) so..... can I hook up my BEHRINGER XENYX1204FX mixer to it or am I just going to have to feed it right into the 424 and buy some different mics?
I was recording on computer but I really like the analog a lot,so any help on making it hte best experience possible would be great!

 

[jjones1700]

You can run your Behringer into the "sub in" on the 424. Unfortunately, the 424 doesn't have phantom power so the Behringer will have to act as your preamp.

 

[AaronRead]

cool thanks man but what if I just bought some different mics to plug directly into the tascam. Can I plug my AKG with a quarter inch into the 4 track and still use phantom power because of the battery oprated condenser option. If not what kind of mics would best suite this kind of a set up? Also, I heard it's possible to hooka dn use effects with the tascam 424 using an alternate unit like an fx pedal or somethingis this possible? Sorry fo rth ebasic question sjust curious.

 

[Whale Bone]

You can use an independent inline phantom power supply (Rolls makes one), if you want to avoid going through a separate mixer just for its phantom power.

For effects:
I discovered later that you could have effectively two effect loops using an insert cable in the effects send. The tip is the effects send, but the ring is the cue send (the manual says this, but the jack itself isn't labeled as such). So I'd send the effects to a reverb and the cue to anything else I wanted at the time. Then using two more insert cables I could get the effects back into channels 5-6 and 7-8 in stereo.

I also made a punch switch with a quarter inch jack wired to a momentary switch mounted on a 2x4, so I could punch in edits.

I just pulled mine out of its box little while back to remix an old project and was impressed with the sound I could get out of it. Pretty cool until you remember how easy it is on a computer to try alternate takes without destroying the others, and to edit, etc. But in a way it also forced me to lay down ideas and live with them or if they seemed good enough to try them all over again on a new piece of tape.

In any case, I'm saving mine for my daughter in case she wants to mess around with it in a few years. Just got to keep it from rotting.