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Thank you Tape Op for the countless hours of entertaining and insightful articles... I always bring a few mags along with me on every tour or trip to kill the time. Here's a few pics from my Afghani show tour from the Canadian Task Force mission for the NATO/ISAF troups. hope you'll enjoy Marc readi...

This machine is in very good condition... the heads have some wear, but have plenty of life left in them trades welcome, http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y174/jetboatguy/FostexE16.jpg lookin' for... Ribbon mics Sennheiser E935's Sennheiser 421's or funky instruments... Leslie Cabinet steel guitar 6 ...

Their can be massive differences from one EQ design to another... Each time you boost or cut frequencies with an EQ... it fucks around with the phase relationship pre and post of the center frequency chosen... the key to a good sounding musical EQ is whether the EQ can boost or cut frequencies with...

Their can be massive differences from one EQ design to another... Each time you boost or cut frequencies with an EQ... it fucks around with the phase relationship pre and post of the center frequency chosen... the key to a good sounding musical EQ is whether the it can boost or cut frequencies with ...

Anybody ever use the ATS-1 ANALOG TAPE SIMULATOR ?

http://www.anamodaudio.com/

Getting one of those Neve Portico's for live use would be kinda pricey, and probably a little too subtle for the extreme crunch you want. Hmm, compared to Magneto... you find the Portico to subtle or tame ? What would happen if I routed the signal into the Portico at a really hot level ? here's one...

I've noticed this phenomenon before... remove the strip, contact clean all the mult-connections (use Caig's dEOXIT 5) also, removing each IC-OPamp and spraying a dirth of contact cleaner in each socket... or legs of the chip can also help. If this fails to clear up the problem, possibly replacing so...

I'm workin' on a project that demands unorthodox methods for recording voices ... some of the screamo vox effects are complimented with a super gritty compressed sound to fit the mix with an elusive character. Only online, have I window shopped units that claim to have the mojo of tape saturation/em...

The Auto-tune demonstration is my favorite part of the film...

Today, this technology has made it less of a priority to seek out the true musical talent of tomorrow.

Hi Joel,
I'm a brave Canuck lookin' to paddle my canoe to New York city for a mastering job of a project I've been workin' on.

what are the top places to check out as an fellow engineer lookin' for deals... ?

The Rumours album as we all know it, The anomaly of recording to 2" was that the master tape 'first generation' drums are history. the album took well over year, of constant recording and mixing... to the point of wearing out the oxide off the tape, hence making the bedtrack drums sounding dull... a...

the discography is quite impressive,
and
32 channels of McCurdy AU300 intact and working within a working console frame... holy crap !!!

correct me if I'm wrong, but...
that McCurdy console does not exist anywheres else in the world ?

From what I heard... the other console,
a refurbished extremely rare McCurdy tube console !

My studio inherited a JH24 machine,
and it's come time to start rolling tape on it's inaugural recording session... I want to calibrate the machine as best as I can, but I'd like to refer to the manual... or whatever other info I can get ?