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yeah i know, but i was thinking i could get a deck now while everybodys panicking and selling their machines.

honestly, i doubt that r2r tape is just going to die like this. but what do i know?

i mean, is neil young just gonan take this lying down? i think not.

Okay, so I've come across an Otari MX 5050 8 track that I can get for 400 bucks. It is on e-bay, which scares me a bit, but the guy has good feedback so that makes me less nervous. This will be my first reel-to-reel (what a time for that, right?) and I just wanted to know what kind of tape these mac...

Okay, say I've come across a reel to reel thats got about 150 hours. Say 200 hours. Is that below normal? Above? I'm either looking for a TSR-8 or a Tascam 388. how many hours will the heads last before they become worn out and need replacing? i will of course be cleaing them frequently and with eac...

hm.

well this seriously puts a dent in my dream to someday own a reel to reel.

Its time for me to delve into the world of mixing beyond the shit board on my 4-track. im gonna use the mixer with my cassette 4 track (and 8 track cassette that im getting next week), for sketches and working out songs and ideas. eventually, im gonna be using it with an 8 track r2r to record the fi...

nice interview, thanks for posting that.

his music is all over the place, so if someone says you sound like him that could mean a number of things.

i guess my niece is going to be getting Suzuki lessons for her 3rd birthday. it can't hurt to have music in your life, i say.

i think i'll quote david berman here when he sang "all my favorite singers couldn't sing" (like leonard cohen, etc.) berman himself is not a good singer by normal standards but i love his voice anyway. just sing, you dont have to be "good", just find your own style and be yourself when you do it. i ...

I use MoreMe headphones, 20 bucks and they do the job. They sound like shit but hey, they work for me.

i don't really have anything against digital, in the end they're all just tools to me. but the m-box/protools left a bad taste in my mouth for digital but again it was probably the process of sitting in front of a computer screen clicking and shit. the sound was not bad, at all. i really enjoyed the...

well i called all the music shops around me looking for reel to reels, and everytime those words came outta my mouth i would hear a sigh from the salesman and then something along the lines of "dont get one of those, get a korg or roland digital full featured digital recorder. record, mix, and burn ...

chet, thanks for the links. i've got about a thousand bucks to spend on a kit. the price difference between vintage drums and new ones doesnt seem to be THAT big and im starting to lean towards getting a vintage set. i'm going to a used music store tomorrow, what specific models should i check out? ...

good thread, im hunting for a studio drum set too (upgrading all the crap equipment ive got now).

do vintage kits really sound different than modern ones?

thanks for the suggestions. just checking out the tascam 488, i've heard good things and i could probably get one on the cheap. i might go with that but i really really wanna try out r2r recording. only thing is that there are only two xlr inputs on it...which is kind of a bummer. i really want all ...

The thought of getting a digital recorder crossed my mind. I still have a lot of thinking do on this. I agree about cassette, I always hear horror stories about the HISS from recording to cassette but it just takes some work to learn to get good sounds from it. I have some pretty damn good sounding ...