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Hey Tony thanks. I'll probably be doing some recording at both 15 and 30. I got an email back from Spitz about this and he said: "I believe MCI?s are .33 mils (head gap). I would start with about 3.5 over at 10 kHz at 15 ips or 1.75 over at 10 kHz at 30 IPS. Another great method to try is peaking th...

I have a MCI JH110C and just got a couple of reels of ATR tape and was wondering if any of you are running ATR tape on an MCI machine. If so, how are you setting bias levels? I just spent 9 months setting up my project studio and am ALMOST ready to start recording again and I'm worried I won't be ab...

Hey man thanks for the response. I've been talking to Brian Roth who is super cool and really just a stand up guy the way he's been offering his expertise. From what I gather there are a few methods of doing this, and the suggesting tension readings in the MCI manual aren't necessarily what they nee...

I'm hoping some of you tape experts can help me out... I'm stuck and I'm going crazy over trying to get my Sony/MCI JH110c 1/4" 2 track tape machine calibrated. Specifically, setting the tension correctly is giving me problems. I really appreciate any of your help. I go through the tension calibrati...

Ok thanks. I check that link and it says none of them are available anymore through Edmund. I was actually hoping to buy them locally today in the Atlanta area today or tomorrow... thinking there should be some physical store that would sell them. I've heard fish scales work fine for the pinch rolle...

I'm trying to properly calibrate and align my MCI/SONY JH110c tape machine and I need two spring scales... one to verify and setup the dancer arm properly and one to calibrate the pinch roller force against the capstan. The MCI manual says I need two spring scales meeting this criteria... "Ametex 0-...

I'm thinking about buying some ATR brand 1/4" tape and was wondering how this tape saturates. Sometimes I like to hit the tape pretty hard when I'm tracking some stuff to get some nice saturation... especially when I'm producing for a vintage funk type sound. I'm used to working with +3 Quantegy 406...

DSI Mopho is supposed to be pretty good and relatively cheap. Personally I love the Bass Station.

I'm looking to buy the following
SPL Stereo Q
SPL Optimizer (2 rack space version)
SPL EX5

Send me a PM if you would be willing to part with any of these.
Thanks

I'm in the exact same situation... I have a DBX 164 that I really love and I would like to try to mod/upgrade it to be a little more high end but keep the great and simple auto attack and releaes compression action... and maintain the overall feel of the unit but still upgrade the signal path and ad...

Damn I wish I had the kind of money to drop $5000 on something like that. Must be nice. I thought this Fluke 8060a that I bought was pretty high end! Guess no compared to that.

Hmm, maybe the confusion is in the fact that the MCI JH110c manual says to use +4 dbv... with a lower case v and apparently that used to mean the same thing as dbu which is also the same as dbm according to that website. So maybe the manual actually does mean to use the same level (+4 dbv/dbm/dbu) t...

I got the Fluke 8060a multimeter in the mail... it was like 90 bucks on ebay. Seems pretty great. I'm using test tones from my computer. The only problem is I'm confused about using dbv or dbm measurements when calibrating my tape deck. The manual says to use a +4 dbv signal when calibrating the VU ...

Ok awesome man thanks for the info. I don't have a tone generator but I have tone wav files on my computer. And when you say "Set it for 0VU ata +4" is that +4 dbv or +4 dbm? I just got this Fluke multimeter and I want to make sure i'm in the right mode when doing this.

Yeah I have a proper MRL tape and did that part. I guess I just don't get why the manual is saying to use a +4 dbv signal and set to 0VU for some stuff... and then use a +4 dbm signal and set to 0VU for other stuff. I would have thought you'd use the same +4 signal type throughout the process.