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i cant relax cos 90% of rec. studios in grecce are digital and if you go to the 10% you will probably pay a shitload of money we must do somwthing about it... we must destoy all digital based studios for the sake of music HA HA HA HA

I think you have a point know.Lets do it ourselves!Fuck studios!!!!!!111

yeah fuck studios they suck anyway (no offence steve)

I like steves studio but when you dont have money and you are an underground band you cant record there!And if you are from another country its even worst!!!

and usually that leads you to building a crappy digital home studio
not that digital stuff can't be cool sometimes but do you prefer a whole pizza or apizza that has bits missing???? uh? tell me uh? tell me dude

guys, I'm not trying to be a dick, but, sooner or later someone is gonna do that.

Your threads seem like you're talking with each other, without saying anything which is too technical or valuable for this part of the forum. Now don't get me wrong, I talk nonsense and shit from time to time..


I think you got my point.

Don't even think of buying a tape machine on eBay...

One of my clients bought a "Good" PR99, a "good" Studer A-810 and a "good" Otari 5050 off eBay. Ended up spending near $1,000 to fix the PR-99 and the 5050, and the A-810 was junk... too costly to repair!

Buy a good machine from someone who you know and trust, or have a tech go thru it before you have it shipped to you....

As an example you can buy a good 5050 from Audio Images in San Francisco and pay someone like me to check it out and align it for about $ 100 bucks or so, meaning you would spend something like 250 for the machine and 100 bucks to align it and check it out, and if it's junk you're out 100 bucks, no more. If it's good it arrives aligned and OK.

There should be a bunch of 5050's available on the East cost of the US, so shipping will be cheaper there, so see if you can contact a good tech on the East Coast who might have a line on a good Otari 5050 for you, and pay him/her to go thru it for you and OK the deal. Also check England and Gerrmany...

eBay is known for junk machines with major problems. The seller always says "it was working fine when I shipped it..." trying to get out of the fact the machine was junk to begin with. Just avoid eBay.... pay the extra bucks to get a good honest tech to look at a machine before you buy it, it's money well spent in the long run.

5050's a fine little machines. You can buy them anywhere between $ 50 US and about $ 400 US. Average price would be about $250 in fair shape, 300 - 350 aligned and checked out.

Note that these are good semi-pro machines, they sound fine, but are not in the same league as the Ampex ATR 102 or the 440, or the Otari MTR 10 or 12 or the MCI jh110 machines. Of course those machines will cost more!

regards,

Goreski

Can you find me one?

eliya wrote:guys, I'm not trying to be a dick, but, sooner or later someone is gonna do that.

Your threads seem like you're talking with each other, without saying anything which is too technical or valuable for this part of the forum. Now don't get me wrong, I talk nonsense and shit from time to time..


I think you got my point.

no youre not being a dick sorry

steve wrote:I used an Otari MX5050 for years, and I liked it fine. It has pretty much all the features of a professional machine in a very compact format.

There are some long-term reliability mods you can make, and some high-performance parts available from Athan corp, which you should consider with a used machine.

Can you elaborate on some of the long-term reliability mods you recommend? I have an MX5050 1/4" machine with a few niggling issues I'd like to sort out.

Best,

- J.