Do I need a Noise Reduction for a TEAC 3340s and what kind?

kiln_house · Post by **kiln_house** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:53 am

OK so Ive reseurrected my old TEAC 3340s it sounds pretty darn good but there is a noticable noise floor ... should I get a Noise Reduction unit for it? If so what kind? Or would a calibration fix this?

kiln_house · Post by **kiln_house** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:01 pm

anybody here use Noise Reduction or am I in the wrong forum?

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:57 pm

EMBRACE THE HISS

I had the Teac NR unit for a while but it was glitchy and a pain in the ass to use, and the resulting sound lacked something.

If you transfer your tracks to computer just gate 'em!

kiln_house · Post by **kiln_house** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:19 pm

I am transferring to 1/4" two track and after a bit of experimentation today found that 90% of the hiss I was picking up was from the mixing board I have...so I think if I can either do mixdowns somewhere with a decent board I will be ok.

A.David.MacKinnon · Post by **A.David.MacKinnon** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:14 am

If you're hating the his you can calibrate your machine for high gain tape (GP9 or equivalent). That will allow you to hit the tape much harder before tape compression kicks in and will give you a better signal to noise ratio.
Otherwise embrace the hiss.

Poppatwang · Post by **Poppatwang** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:00 pm

Never had noise reduction on mine. Everything that was available at the time seemed to make things dull. I just lived with it.

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:28 pm

I've been very happy using dbx type I on 1/4" 8-track, but I don't think I'd bother with it on a wider format, unless I was planning on bouncing, bouncing and bouncing again.

ladewd · Post by **ladewd** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:43 pm

You may not have enough bias voltage to align the 3340S to the newer tape formulations. I got mine aligned to 456 but was not able to get enough overbias for 499. I sold it years ago. DBX Type 1 would be the NR unit of chice for the machine, but the calibration has to be right on the money or it'll sound like a bad compressor.

CA

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:53 pm

I believe that the optional TEAC noise reduction was type I dbx--that's assuming that the optional noise reduction is TEAC dx-8. I think it's an early variant, though, and have long suspected that later type I dbx NR--dbx-branded--is probably more reliable and leaves less of a sonic footprint.

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