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sick man
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Yarhar, new to the forum, love your work, admire those of you battling against the digital tide, who needs all that sterile headroom anyway? Its like playing a gig in a hospital. The warm enclosing folds of magnetic tape... like a womb, bringing forth beautiful children...
enough of that shit..
I bought myself a Tascam 244 for the high speed tape options, as my Porta Two was getting pretty noisesome, and the lack of high frequency response and customizable EQ was getting limiting. So I saw some guy who had had this thing sitting in his garage for 12 years, sounds appealing, but at $30 who is going to argue? So I got her home (surprisingly heavy) plugged her in and she sounds griitty but sweet, love that semi parametric eq, preamps are better than I thought they'd be, spose I should get some sort of external preamp for clarity, but for demoing shoudl be alright. Needs new drive belt so (after putting the old one in the freezer to try and shrink it back to shape, which obviously failed) I ordered one from the U.S of A. turntableneedles.com had free shipping. In the meantime I can't figure our what the cause might be of this problem:
When I plug a mic in, there is a wild inconsistency between the volume of channels 1 to 4, where channel 1 is extremely quiet and distorts easily, track 4 is loud and has a lot more headroom, it seems quite linear across the channels, that is Channel 1 is the quietest, and 4 is the loudest. Is it something I need to sort out between the individual channels e.g replacing parts in the preamp using track 4 as a reference (I think it sounds the best) or is there some sort of internal gain trimpot or something I should use to make the gain uniform among the channels?
I would like to get a hold of a service manual for the 244, I understand they are rare as hens teeth, if I do get a hold of one though I'd be happy to scan it in for members.
Forever yours
Liam
enough of that shit..
I bought myself a Tascam 244 for the high speed tape options, as my Porta Two was getting pretty noisesome, and the lack of high frequency response and customizable EQ was getting limiting. So I saw some guy who had had this thing sitting in his garage for 12 years, sounds appealing, but at $30 who is going to argue? So I got her home (surprisingly heavy) plugged her in and she sounds griitty but sweet, love that semi parametric eq, preamps are better than I thought they'd be, spose I should get some sort of external preamp for clarity, but for demoing shoudl be alright. Needs new drive belt so (after putting the old one in the freezer to try and shrink it back to shape, which obviously failed) I ordered one from the U.S of A. turntableneedles.com had free shipping. In the meantime I can't figure our what the cause might be of this problem:
When I plug a mic in, there is a wild inconsistency between the volume of channels 1 to 4, where channel 1 is extremely quiet and distorts easily, track 4 is loud and has a lot more headroom, it seems quite linear across the channels, that is Channel 1 is the quietest, and 4 is the loudest. Is it something I need to sort out between the individual channels e.g replacing parts in the preamp using track 4 as a reference (I think it sounds the best) or is there some sort of internal gain trimpot or something I should use to make the gain uniform among the channels?
I would like to get a hold of a service manual for the 244, I understand they are rare as hens teeth, if I do get a hold of one though I'd be happy to scan it in for members.
Forever yours
Liam
