I'm iNsAne!

[GregN]

UP because Greg found this video of Pink Floyd recording Echoes from Meddle. Check out the tape deck at 1:19.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5sht8MB37o

Looks like my Scully! How cool is that?

Guess it depends on how cool you think Pink Floyd is.

I believe the three of us were listening to different sorts of production at Jim's one night, and he put Echoes up...

The production is vibey as hell...no denying that.

[AllenLowe]

Jim, have you tried running the Scully at 15 ips with no noise reduction? I find personally that DBX kind of kills the analog advantage - if the tape is wide enough noise levels might be ok -

[Jim Alfredson]

That's how I'm running it now. The tape hiss is not bad at all. Once I get it calibrated and I know how hard I'm hitting the tape, I bet it will be even better.

One thing I noticed about this machine as well; the meters are totally unbuffered, which means they are probably feeding back a little bit of rectifier distortion from the meter coils themselves into the audio. Some people like that and it's part of the charm. I need to get the machine calibrated to know, though.

[AllenLowe]

you've made me a happy man, thinking about analog - i recently did some quick saxophone recording on an old tascam, 1/4 inch, no noise reduction - too much noise for release, but the sonic depth of field just cannot be matched by digital - let me know if you wanna do a remote recording in Maine -

[AllenLowe]

and I'll see if I can get Sonny Williams for the session - if I can find him -

[GregN]

you've made me a happy man, thinking about analog - i recently did some quick saxophone recording on an old tascam, 1/4 inch, no noise reduction - too much noise for release, but the sonic depth of field just cannot be matched by digital - let me know if you wanna do a remote recording in Maine -

What do you have? I have a Tascam 388. I find a lot of the noise on my 388 comes from the onboard mic pres. Did some tests using other pres and since I am only tracking a few tracks the noise isn't bad. Not going to compare to Jim's Scully by any stretch of the imagination, but it might work.

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