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I have been browsing eBay looking at prices for DBX 150x Noise Reduction units and I'm a little confused at the range in prices I see. I see them going on Buy It Now from $40 to $250. It seems as though they are comparable in quality. Does anyone know why this may be? Anyone know what a decent price...

I inherited a TEAC 4 Track a few months ago and started messing around with it. I recorded a simple acoustic tune with a buddy and did a mix down through my Yamaha board. For the first time since I've been recording I actually like the sound. It's not perfect, or mind blowing but I like listening to...

Gregg thank you for the suggestions. There's some good stuff in there. I would be interested in seeing your syllabus maybe you could PM me and email it to me. I never would have thought about the idea of a radio station so I might look into that. For the rap portion of the class my plan was to use t...

Hello Tape Op folk. By profession I am a history teacher and my school let me teach a History of Rock/Rap class this year. It's going well so far. I asked my students what they'd be interested in learning more about and one thing that came up was the recording process. I thought this community might...

A little update in case anyone is interested. It was the fridge. I can turn it off while I record so it's an easy fix. The beer gets a little warm but that's alright.

I have not done that and I don't believe it's been done to this machine in quite some time. I have read about the need to do this but I don't know how. Do you know of a good resource that explains this process. I know that I can really mess things up if I do it wrong but it seems like something I sh...

Swapping cables was the first thing I tried, it was not a bad cable. I tried to reproduce the buzz this evening and I couldn't get it to buzz again. Intermittent problems are the worst. I do have a refrigerator and a freezer next to my recording desk, could one or both of those cause interference? I...

I just got a TEAC 3340 4 track. I have a problem with channel 1. When I record there is a buzz on the track after I'm done. When I'm not recording the channel is noisy but it's more of a hiss and not a buzz. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is it too expensive to repair? I am new to the tape world so a...

The article on Albini was pretty enlightening. I didn't know much about him beforehand, other than the fact that he had a reputation. A reputation as a disturber of the peace, but in a cool punk rock way. Afterwards I listened to Surfer Rosa and In Utero. I can definitely here a common thread, very ...

JWL I have a question for you. When you play the bass frequency, how do you figure out where the bass buildup is taking place? Do you walk around the room and listen? Is there a more "scientific" way of doing this like a db meter?

Does anyone know who much of "Thriller" was recorded direct? It seems like a lot of it was drum machines and synths. It sold a few copies if I remember correctly.

Thank you for your lengthy reply Nick. The arrangements will be for acoustic guitar and mandolin. Two voices, myself and a female. The goal of the recording is to present to music as cleanly as possible. I'd like to do live recording, with few if no overdubs. I might try recording to a metronome jus...

You're right Nick, it's not ready. We're working on arrangement right now, and I've never recorded songs like this. So I was looking for some constructive ideas on mic placement, eq, compression, things like that. I've read quite a bit on recording this type of music but this was my first shot at do...

Hello, I would like some constructive criticism of a recording I did today. It's a bluegrass-ish song with acoustic guitar and mandolin. Just me and a friend. I recorded it with an AT 4033/4040 set up about 5 feet in front of us at the same height. Not much eq and some reverb and a limiter on the ma...

A friend of mine had a "mic" that was a headphone speaker duct taped to the inside of a plastic cup. The 1/8" went to 1/4" then to a practice amp. It sounded like crap but in a kind of cool way. Is that a DIY dynamic mic? I know it's not, I'm just kidding. Reading this thread reminded me of ol' "Cup...