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Post by adamjbrass on Mar 9, 2018 7:08:06 GMT -6
Many people I know have said this machine is their favorite. Good luck moving it to a new home.
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Post by johneppstein on Mar 9, 2018 7:20:16 GMT -6
Who was the guy, based near Nashville, who came out with a hardware product that synced tape machines to DAWs, wherein you could re-use the reels of tape and use the machine as a front-end to the computer? I forget the name of the product, but it seemed trick, though expensive. His ads were showing Aerosmith using it. If money were no object......... We just dump the tracks straight to the computer, no CLASP. I guess if you need to build up more than 24 tracks CLASP would be useful, but we really don't do anything that elaborate. I believe that Metallica use a CLASP system. They and I share a tape tech. I've been using one-pass 3M from a guy in LA. the 3M is much less likely to have problems than Ampex and the guy I buy from guarantees his stock. More expensive than Ebay but much cheaper than new.
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Post by svart on Mar 9, 2018 8:46:16 GMT -6
I should also say that for loud rock recordings you can get probably 5-10 erase/record cycles from each tape before you start to hear the ghosts of sessions past, or have too much wear. I guess it also depends on the tape machine too though.
If a customer were to come to me and want to do a full tape session then keep the tape, I'd buy a new tape. If they just want to track drums to tape and then import to digital for editing, I'd just use the used tapes for that.
There's quite a bit of info on which tape formulations from which manufacturers had issues with sticky-shed. It's not a foolproof method though. I did get a tape that shed all over my machine, but other tapes just a few years before or after didn't shed.
Even the new tapes seem to have some issues, even though they seem a lot better quality.
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Post by notneeson on Mar 9, 2018 9:24:03 GMT -6
The transformers on those cards look huge compared to the little Beyers in the Ampex mm1200 I used to frequent.
I mixed a track cut on a Mara Machines JH-16 recently and am looking forward to cutting on it myself when the right project comes along.
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