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Does anyone either know how to adjust this, or have the capstan motor PCB schematic? Thanks. Investigation reveals that the capstan PCB is accessible from the underside of the machine, after removing the bottom plate and unscrewing the main control board. It has trimmer adjustments on it marked for...

I'm working on an Otari MX5050 Mk III 1/2" 8-tr for a client. The speed is a few percent low, with the speed control adjustment turned off. The service manual does not include a schematic for the capstan motor PCB. (Every other stinkin' PCB in the machine is there, but not that one.) It seems that t...

I sometimes do work for a fringe theatre here in Seattle. Their current location is RF Central [...] Even with the amp all the way down but powered we get radio signals. Yeah, I live on the other hill in Seattle with three towers, about a block away. I feel your pain. Used to get Dr. Laura on the p...

Mark wrote:Is there a stonkingly good reason you can't just track live to stereo?

Just that it seems to lower the odds of getting a good mix. If someone digs in a bit more when they're "playing for real" than when we were setting up, then I can't fix it in the mix.

I would want to move the 8 tracks in to a DAW and then mix. In that case you can duplicate the bass/mandolin track and EQ them seperately. Good point - I don't have to do the EQ'ing all in one channel. I'm mixing in analog (using the monitoring section of the same board I'm tracking with) but there...

That's a smart idea, to get stereo ambience out of bleed. I'm interested that you would separate the kick and OH into two tracks, and mix the primary vocals into one. What's the rationale? Seems to me that having a bit too much or not enough kick isn't going to render a mix unusable, but having too ...

Naw, I used to have another ADAT and decided what I needed was some discipline. Failing that, before I added another 8 tracks of ADAT I'd probably get a 24-track HD recorder instead. :-) I know I said "two lead vocals" but really there's one male lead, one female harmony, and then rest of us just ho...

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! We will not be doing any bouncing of tracks or overdubbing. I know that's heretical in terms of modern studio practice, but it's a strongly held personal belief on my part. (I won't rant about it cuz it'll take us off topic.) The reason I'm recording to ADAT rat...

Trying to make semi-decent rehearsal recordings of my band so that we don't flounder so badly when we get into the studio next time. Have an ADAT, an A&H GL2200 24-ch mixer, and lots of mics (I'm a live sound guy mainly). Don't need stereo drums. The band is drums, bass, elgtr, acgtr, mandolin, and ...

...you can download pro tools free. It has tons of limitations, but you might be able to consolidate all those tracks on it, I'm not sure what PTfree can and can't do. I think we've got more tracks than will fit in PTFree. I should look into it, though, because that would be a great solution otherw...

Darn! I was hoping someone had written an open-source or shareware converter that would do the conversion for me - sort of a "read-only" version of PT. Guess we're in for some more studio dollars no matter what.

My band recently did some recording in ProTools at a studio. We'd like to try mixing at home, but we don't have PT. We've got all the files on hard disk. But, there's a gazillion little .wav files, all different lengths - I assume, at least one per track, or maybe even per punch-in. I assume that th...