![]() After a couple thousand passes you may begin to hear some degradation, and if you fill them then erase them and start over, you may hear some difference as they get older. Cassettes are pretty robust, even for this use, but it'll sound best if you always start out with a new one. If you have a mic and cable with XLR connectors you can get a simple adaptor at, say, Radio Shack, to match the 1/4" input jack.Īs Pat mentions, the newer "Type II" cassettes were much better for this sort of work, but before they were that good, we used whatever cassettes we liked. The inputs of the cassette recorder do have preamps, and most of them had 1/4" input jacks and not the 3-pronged XLR connectors for microphones, though some later and more sophisticated ones did have them. ![]() Check a dedicated electronics shop (Radio Shack may or may not know.) for head cleaner, and if you end up using plain alcohol, make sure that it doesn't have any lanolin in it, that is, that it's not "rubbing alcohol"!! NAPA auto stores used to sell small bottles of pure methyl alcohol, too, that were good to use (and often cheaper than 'head cleaners').īTW, I've worked some very well-known songwriters, who used four-track cassette recorders for songwriting, and we never used condensor mics. You'll want to get some foam-tipped swabs and some tape head cleaner, and I'd suggest that you clean the tape heads each time you start a session. I"d fill four tracks then mix those to a second cassette recorder in stereo, and if I wanted more tracks, I'd use the second tape and add to it in the four-track machine. When three tracks are recorded, these machines usually allowed one to "bounce," that is, mix those three to the fourth so that you could then re-record on the first three. These were made for overdubbing, that is for recording one track, listening to that one while you added more, so they have two 'mixers,' one to use for the sounds going to tape and one for what you'll hear on the headphones (or speakers). ![]() Tascam 388 channel not recording manual#If the one you're looking at buying doesn't have the manual with it, do some online searches, I'm pretty sure they're still available, and you -will- want one. There should be a fair amount of information still available in the world about them, especially the Tascam models, which, along with Fostex, were the most common and popular ones. They worked pretty well for using such tiny tape width. When four-track cassette recorders came out, just about every musician got one. ![]()
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