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Wakefield is great. The Blacksheep is a great venue. I saw Jim Bryson play a sunday matinee this past weekend. Jeremy G from the Arcade Fire was in his backup band along with Dave Draves from Little Bullhorn Studio. It was a wonderfull show. I brought my 6 month old daughter and she wasn't even the ...

Wakefield, Quebec

joeysimms - Thanks....

.....oh and i can't wait to get the new system set up.... so many tracks I won't know what to do.....

enen

I don't like to make declarations as to what is 'better' as it is all in the way you use it. All things being equal (signal chain, room acoustics, experience, etc...) you would get desirable tape characteristics from a 1/2" 8 track. That being said, you can also get different (equally valid) desirab...

I have been using a Teac 80-8 happily for several years. My particular 80-8 has not had any technical issues up to this point. I perform regular maintance on it (cleaning tape track before each use, de-maging regularly and a qualified technician for alignment). So far no issues with relays or any ot...

The magazine Sound on Sound did a feature article on the recording of Anarchy in the UK or God Save the Queen and other SP tracks/demos. The article appears maybe 2-4 issues ago. You can also search the Sound on Sound website for the details. It was and interesting read with lots of tech info and go...

I am from our Nation's Capital..... i live downtown (Arlington and Bay). I have a 1/2 inch 8 track (Teac 80-8) studio in the basement of my house. Generally i track my friends bands, some of them you may have heard of (Greenfield Main, Rhume, South of 78, Bitchn' Cameros, Andrew Vincent and the Pira...

hey dynomike

did you declare the mics to canada customs when you came back through the border? or is their some trick to not paying the duty?

My modest mics....

Apex 120 - used where ever a SM57 would be used. guitar cab/bass cab
Apex 190 - pair - used for stereo. acc guitar, overhead XY - single on hi-hat
Shure 10A - snare, guitar cab
Marshall 2001- guitar cab/bass cab
Rode NT1000 - mono overhead, vocals

I must have missed this one.... but yeah i live in Ottawa