Just busted out the 'ol Portastudio
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Just busted out the 'ol Portastudio
My Tascam Portastudio 414 has been out of commission for a long time due to a bad ac adapter.
Anyway I bought a new ac adapter and I am back up and rolling with it.
Recorded a live band last night with drums guitars, bass shakers and crowd vocals in a medium sized room and it came out sounding great. Didn't even use compression, eq- nothin.
I think I will be using this more now. It is so much more welcoming to record on than a computer for me and it sounds great.
Does anybody here use one of the tape based portastudios and have some comments? Happy Monday
Anyway I bought a new ac adapter and I am back up and rolling with it.
Recorded a live band last night with drums guitars, bass shakers and crowd vocals in a medium sized room and it came out sounding great. Didn't even use compression, eq- nothin.
I think I will be using this more now. It is so much more welcoming to record on than a computer for me and it sounds great.
Does anybody here use one of the tape based portastudios and have some comments? Happy Monday
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Re: Just busted out the 'ol Portastudio
I had the same problem befall mine a few years ago. I looked around for a replacement adapter, but ended up finding a Tascam 488 8-track for the same amount of money just a new adapter for the 414 would have cost me. So the 414 is still sitting idle...christiannokes wrote:My Tascam Portastudio 414 has been out of commission for a long time due to a bad ac adapter.
I always did love that machine, though.
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That reminds me, Austin- I downloaded all your stuff 3-4 months back. So good- really inspiring stuff you're doing there. The cassette portastudio stuff in particular really hit home. Thanks for putting that stuff out.
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If you're ever in my part of the country, you have a session at my studio with your name on it....
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Ditto, I've definitely loved the magic that thing does for drums and guitars.kickoldman wrote:I really like the drum sounds I get on my 464. I run guitar through a few channels of a Porta One to get some awesome transitor-y sounds.
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Finished up transferring my old Tascam 238 ~ 8 track tunes. Lot less brain work with the multi-track cassettes .........you really get your recording craft down with those machines.
We SMPTE sync'd the cassette unit to dual Kurzweil sequencers and then mixed through a 24 channel board for mixdown in the 80's --24 channels to master cassette
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We SMPTE sync'd the cassette unit to dual Kurzweil sequencers and then mixed through a 24 channel board for mixdown in the 80's --24 channels to master cassette
Island in the Sea http://www.songramp.com/mod/mps/srplaye ... ckid=74324
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