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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: newbee looking for direction on 15 ips recorders
« on: February 16, 2008, 09:21:09 AM »
Thanks again. I am a newbee to the reel to reel recording so some homework goes without saying. I'm using a mostly all analog studio so I'm quite aware of the problems that come with old equipment. Especially when you are on a budget and looking for cheap stuff, some research will save a lot of head worries later on. Homework is why I signed up to this forum, it looked like a friendly place with plenty of knowledge.
I dared to put my money on the Tascam also because I know here in Holland there's a small company (www.hanexservice.nl) that still services Tascam/Teac (and Revox), and you can order spare parts from them for relatively reasonable prices and fast delivery. A good friend of mine uses a X1000r and he was very satisfied dealing with them. I paid 100 euro, which I thought was a cheap price for it (it came with a remote and 2 NAB hubs) and I figured that if a problem occurs, I can always spend the rest of my budget on having it serviced.
The Vu lights I don't mind so much. I can do without them, I'll probably just replace them when there's a more immediate need to open the machine. There's one little thing with those VU meters that strikes me as weird, tho. When I playback a recording recording which was leveled at 0dB, the Vu meters read out only -10dB, whilst at the same time my RTW peak meter continues to show 0dB... Is there an obvious reason for this?
I dared to put my money on the Tascam also because I know here in Holland there's a small company (www.hanexservice.nl) that still services Tascam/Teac (and Revox), and you can order spare parts from them for relatively reasonable prices and fast delivery. A good friend of mine uses a X1000r and he was very satisfied dealing with them. I paid 100 euro, which I thought was a cheap price for it (it came with a remote and 2 NAB hubs) and I figured that if a problem occurs, I can always spend the rest of my budget on having it serviced.
The Vu lights I don't mind so much. I can do without them, I'll probably just replace them when there's a more immediate need to open the machine. There's one little thing with those VU meters that strikes me as weird, tho. When I playback a recording recording which was leveled at 0dB, the Vu meters read out only -10dB, whilst at the same time my RTW peak meter continues to show 0dB... Is there an obvious reason for this?
