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What happened to music?

He's making a point that I don't necessarily agree with (that even the crappy music of yesterday is better than what we have now, blah blah blah) I think my point is a little less about the shit-value of the current state of music, and a little more directed towards the sheer quality of musicianshi...

what tape machines are you using?

At work we have an Otari MTR-90 MKII with a sixteen track headstack, it's almost super reliable. It doesn't hold 10 kHz let alone 16 kHz the way a Studer can, but sonically it's not noticeable and pretty easy to align and maintain. It's transparent sounding, but the machine itself is a little noisy....

Recording piano?

We have a Yamaha C4 at the studio where I work. I don't particularly like 414's on it, it's fairly bright piano and the 414's make it sound more like a digital/sampled piano. I'm a huge fan of the AEA R88 stereo ribbon fairly close to the harp over the middle of the piano's curve. If you don't have ...

Scully 280B, HELP!

I'm working with the 'project' Scully 4-track. It sounds great, record and playback align fairly well, and runs relatively steadily. One minor caveat, the damn thing doesn't erase by more than 10 dB. I'm using 456 and not hitting tape too hard. I'm unsure if the problem is as simple as adjusting the...

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