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Hi folks, I'm shopping for a hardware reverb unit, I've been poking around the various "best reverb" threads. My issue is I'm not really sure what my budget should be. I have a small-ish collection of fairly nice gear... -mics, peluso 2247, beyer ribbons, and a few studio work horses. -pre's, drip R...

Hello, I'm selling... -Mbox 2 mini -Protools LE 7 -Protools m powered 7 -a bunch of loops and demo software discs that came with it Here's the trick, or at least what I did with this. PT9 costs about $500 by itself and can be used with any interface, but the PT9 crossgrade from LE or M powered only ...

Hey Telepathy, sorry it took me forever to respond. I oiled the capstan, which went fine. But it turns out I have the wrong nab hub adapters. You live and you learn. Not much I can do until I get the correct ones, which is just a matter of postage. If it's still miss behaving after I get that sorted...

So, I got my hub adapters, MRL tape and take up reel and spent a little time with the machine yesterday. -Spooling the reels went fine. -Play mode went fine -FF and RW are weird. The speed doesn't seem fast enough, and it will start going then slow way down then pick back up. This did not happen in ...

No, tape is tape. You can calibrate it to any standard AFAIK.

Yeah, I get it now, a machine is set up with a given EQ curve, and you need an alignment tape that matches that but that's it.

Thanks!

I called fullcompass to make sure, no dice on the empties. However, I did find a guy on ebay that had hub adapters, MRL tape, and an empty for me. I can borrow a demagnetizer from a friend for the time being. So, I don't have it all in hand yet but everything's ordered :D Also, if it's of interest t...

Yeah, I've seen that, I was hoping I could order all my supplies from one place. Anyhow, the machine showed up today, shipped in it's original box no less! I haven't done anything with it yet, but at least cosmetically it's in pristine condition. The outside of the box is stamped IEC equalization, a...

I'm in Philadelphia, thanks for the kind offer though! I actually found a reel of 1/2" in my basement today, so that's something to start with. I don't have a take up reel though, and actually haven't seen any empty reels for sale at the various sites that have been suggested. I would guess I could ...

Great advice percussion boy! I'm surprised there's not a sticky about that kind of stuff. In other news, I'm pretty close to ATR I just saw on their site that they have an alignment and calibration seminar at the end of April. It's not specific to Otari's or anything but I'd bet it would be a pretty...

Thanks for the fullcompass tip, I didn't realize they sold tape. The auction came with a 60 day warranty, so I've got a little time to order the proper supplies to really check it out. I found the manual for the III, I got IV. At first glance they look to be pretty much the same. I'm not certain whe...

Hey all, I just won an auction for an otari mx 5050 8 track, needless to say I'm pretty psyched about having more analog in my life. I'm wondering if there's a general FAQ or something on owning a tae machine that any one could recommend? -What's a good place to buy tape in this day and age? -Do I n...

Thanks for the clarification!

I have this up on "the lab" forum as well, I'm pretty surprised no one has picked it up yet. It's a Mac that's great for audio at Dell prices.

Macbook 2.1 from 2007 -667 mghz core duo processor -2 gigs of ram -120 gig hard drive -OS 10.6.3 "snow leopard" -ethernet, vga, firewire, 2 USB, and a superdrive I thought I'd post this before selling it on ebay since folks here have more use for a firewire port than most other people. I'm the origi...

very cool article. They did do a reunion tour many years later, but it was mostly a vanity project for Mike Love and some of the former members of CCR, since all of the original members had been put to sleep. I did FOH sound on that tour, Mike and the boys mics were never on, we had a bunch of pups ...

Ugh does it matter, really? To me, not at all, at least from the perspective of sound quality. for the sake of argument let's just say that the sonics of each unit are equal to the point of personal preference. I was hoping to get some first hand insights on other qualities like... -stability -main...