Teac A-3340S and most likely the youngest person into reel to reel.....

[vinyldavid]

Hello, everyone at The Tape Project forum.  My name is David, and I had a few questions about my Teac A-3340S, and playback of the Tape Project tapes.  In the event that I will ever be able to afford some (I am 16 years old), I would like to know what options I have.  I am probably the youngest person into reel to reel tape anywhere, but the downside to that is that I have no money.  My Teac cost less than ONE Tape Project album, but it has less than 200 total hours on the heads, so it will be performing wonderfully for a long while to come.

My questions:
Could I somehow mix together the 4 tracks down to 2 tracks?  I have an 8 channel mixer (but it is near 30 years old, a Tascam M30).
Are the Teac NAB hub adapters good ones, or should I look into getting better ones?  They work fine as far as I can tell.....
How much difference is there between NAB and CCIR (I believe that to be the EQ that you are using)?  I cannot get a hold of a CCIR eq, unless the Dynaco SCA-35 has one (I know it has tape head outs), and geting hold of that would be tough.  I also am very hesitant to mess with the wiring of my Teac.

Thanks for your patience with this R2R noob.

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VinylDavid
"Music is like candy. It is only good when you get rid of all the rappers."

[vinyldavid]

Oh yeah....

The rest of the system:
Onkyo TX-4500 receiver (fully recapped and refurbished)
JBL 4311 speakers
Acoutsic Research AR-4x speakers
Baby Advent speakers.  Not all tun at the same time.  One set at a time.
Technics SL-D202 with Audio-Technica AT95e cart
Akai GX912 cassette deck
Teac A-6010 reel to reel (needing repairs, left motor does not work, therefore, it cannot play nothing, because of no tension.)

[Tubes n tapes]

David,


Welcome to the forum.
You can play two track tapes on your A3340S as long as you use the outer tracks (Channel 1 and 4). Mixing in the inner tracks will add about as much noise as signal, so I wouldn't recommend that. Playing a CCIR tape on a NAB machine at 15ips will put out 3dB too much signal above 4500Hz and you will lose some bass below 50Hz. That is all certainly audible, but no disaster. It can get you started while your tapes keep growing on you when you upgrade your playback system over time.

[vinyldavid]

Thanks much!   I will try to upgrade the rest of my playback system first, and then buy The Tape Project tapes.  Then try to get an Ampex 350-2 from my local classical radio station.

[dwilawyer]

Thanks much!   I will try to upgrade the rest of my playback system first, and then buy The Tape Project tapes.  Then try to get an Ampex 350-2 from my local classical radio station.

Your 16?  I hate you.  Just kidding, I hope you get the Ampex, you will have a lot of fun with that.  You have a lot of neat equipment from the glory days. 

Travis