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If you go to pricewatch.com and input "ViPower" in the search function, you will get no results. Apparently some big company bought ViPower and somehow all of the cheap $8 PATA caddies have disappeared from the U.S.. MagicSound's SATA HD24 caddies are not available now, due to the caddy shortage. Cl...

I did a google search for 2" tape prices and found a gearslutz thread where people referred to the price increases, around August-September of 2006: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/82650-analog-tape-prices.html The average prices even for NOS Quantegy 2" tape (sold after the shutdown)...

I have a pair of KSM27's. They are way different from the typical cheap chinese-mfg large condenser mic; smooth, very even treble, balanced. Not a lot of extreme peaks in the low or top end, neutral. Very unforgiving of bad signals like cheap drum cymbals; they record what they hear very well and ac...

The DBX was off. I don't like how it sounds, and since we were recording loud instruments, hiss wasn't a problem at all. I'm going to have to rethink my using the 388 with the DBX on. The DBX just takes the life out of the sound on the 388. Your EP sounds great, there's hiss but way more analog coo...

One question; did you record on the 388 with the DBX on or off?

Galen Ulrich Elfert wrote:I can't express how stoked I was when I got that news. This might become the only compressor I ever use.

I agree. Saw the CT5 demo at their booth @ potluck conference in Tucson last month. Massey plugs are great.

Ive often wondered about the behringer and other low end compressors. Is it worth having these kinds of things in the signal chain? Say I was tracking a vocal, are cheap compressors going to help me? Or is it better to just keep my singal chain as "clean" or as "good" as it can be and compress in t...

Behringer Composer Pro-XL MDX2600? It has both regular dbx-type compression & a peak limiter. Can't say how it sounds or works, but it has the features you were looking for, and is probably super cheap on the used market.

Massey Plugins has released CT5, the update of their CT4 plugin compressor for ProTools, version 7 and up. New added features, still reasonable price. The upgrade to CT5 for existing CT4 purchasers is $3.00 USD; that is amazing in itself! Also, the free plugins that used to be on smassey.com are ava...

If you've got firewire, an echo audiofire 4 would do it for you for not too much. If not, there are some affordable 8 channel usb interfaces floating around?it doesn't hurt to have extra channels, who knows what you'll want in the future... I just picked up a GAP 73 on top of my other 2 channel Mob...

Here are a couple of photos of the reel... http://www.flickr.com/photos/85210504@N05/ That is beyond weird. 7" trident reel, 3608' of tape & 34512 marked on the box that should be a 10.5" NAB reel per RMGI's own specs. I think they goofed, you have #34511 tape with 1800' on the 7" reel. Go ahead an...

reeltoreal wrote:Hi, thanks for all the input. The reel that i have measures 7" in diameter, it's a hinged box and i think it's a plastic reel. I'm confused

Confused? Me too. Maybe you should post a link to some digital pics of the tape that you have.

Check this pdf: http://www.rmgi-usa.com/resources/Analog-Media/RMGI_LPR_35.pdf Please refer to page 4 of the .pdf file. You need RMGI product code 34511 to use on the 388. If you have a RMGI LPR-35 reel with 3608' of tape, you have either product code 34512 or 35520, which refers to 10.5 plastic or ...

RMGI 911 is ok to use, the tape is thicker than LPR-35 and a little harder for the machine to pull.

You need to buy a reel of RMGI LPR-35 1/4" 1800' tape. Comes on a 7" reel.
You can find it at www.usrecordingmedia.com or www.fullcompass.com.