recording on the old tascam 788

this is the first multitrack recorder i have owned

i know nothing about it

here i will learn how to use it and post recordings

someone left a hip hop jam on here. its pretty bad. there is also a demo of a country song that is very bad. i have learned how to plug stuff in, record individual tracks and listen. i am possibly doing a very rough recording a surf/thrash band on sunday. nothing else to report at this time.

i still have mine! i filled it up pretty quickly, not much memory iirc

thats what a friend told me too

i guess i will be using it in tandem with something else for storage

was wishing recently that i had a working cassette 4-track

try this forum.

http://tascamforums.com/index.php?s=a95b7249bed59c18642e8c9b2c3c959f&showforum=4

"old" lol

I remember recording my teen biz on this

http://www.illmuzik.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tascam-Porta-One.jpg

http://gearpatrol.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tascam-portastudio-ipad-app-gear-patrol.jpg

should have said "ol'"

ye olde tascam

people are pissed at school because i just printed the 150 page manual in a computer lab and everyones queued up behind me to get their research papers et al

yeah i meant ol' not old. it is digital. lol.

xp Just pretend it's your research paper.

lol iTascam

Probably can't survive being dropped though.

used to be you could drop a tascam

i had one of these until society went all to hell

http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics_files/1982_nebraska/cassette_recorder.jpg

that is what my 1st band recorded on

i have this. $50 on ebay, almost brand new

http://blog.conrad.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tascam-488-MK21.jpg

$50 seems like a really good deal

i probably paid too much for the 788 but it did come with the bonus hiphop track

I can't quite go back to recording with a 4track, but I've recently been using a cassette deck to 'master' my tracks to for a saturated rounded-off sound.

what kind?

i've got one of these (244) & it is freakin sweet
http://www.bemuso.com/bemuso/imagefiles/autobiography/tascam244.jpg

oh wait mine looks more like this

http://yearoftheboy.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/tascam-1.jpg?w=500&h=375

tell me if I should ask this q in another thread because I'm recording a bunch of shit nowadays but does using any of this sort of technology come with any advantages over recording into a computer thru a preamp. I am a recording baby

not really imo, though it is probably quicker to turn on & get going

on an actual tape 4track you can do backmasking

what kind?

http://www.audio-ideas.com/reviews/analog-sources/graphics/marantz-pmd430-2.jpg

It's a Marantz 430, which I picked because it was both portable and a 3-head machine. I can then use it as an outboard effect, not only for saturation, but also in conjunction with a delay effect I can have two mono tape-delays as well.

Plus it also has a pitch control so I can use it to beatmatch when I'm DJing out.

i recorded some things today of just myself. turned out fine. tomorrow i record a band for the first time.

im recording a punk band live with a p minimal setup, worried about spillover

if you get spillover, "change the conversation" and convince everyone in the room that spillover is really cool now

they dont care i dont think

sounds like they changed the conversation a while ago

these guys are good

i just recorded a band!

• spillover was not a problem.
• everything sounds good.
• i need to learn about "compression" - that is my HW for the day.
• mixing to come in the next few days, also overdubbing of whale sounds (?)
• i have to do some punching in on the vocal tracks, the dudes insisted on letting it roll through the entire take and then did stuff like crinkle their paper rhythmically and take giant glugs of water. next time i will be bossier about this.
• i need: tiny mic stands, a headphone splitter, and always better mics

It's a Marantz 430

thanks, that looks dope. would love to have something like that so that i could easily bounce stems to tape and then back to the computer (do you just use the RCA ins/outs for this?), and mess with the pitch control.

It's got RCA ins/outs as well as microphone inputs and headphone outputs.

wtf these guys sound like beach boys not surf/thrash

have you ever heard the beach boys? they are a punk band with no singing.

OMG I used to be all about the Portastudio that am0n posted.

I once managed to make an absolutely incredible-sounding recording on a little tascam cassette 4-track of a power trio jam session sort of thing I was in. I never was able to replicate the blazed, super-saturated, slightly distorted sound I created that night -- I got objectively "better" sounding recordings but nothing that had whatever quality it was that that recording had. And it's certainly not something I can get digitally.

http://soundcloud.com/emily-robinson-8/killer-whale-theme-song-by

mixed, not mastered

does anyone else here use this insane machine?

i am currently recording my 2nd and 3rd projects and have learned so much. just curious if all digital 8 tracks are as quirky and glitchy and this is just what im in for in life, or if this one is "special", like the kia sportage of the digital recording world

it could be this individual machine, too. (or THIS individual machine amirite *indicates self)

never had a problem with mine, so it's you

i could never figure out what the deal was with track 7/8. just make 8 separate tracks is all i ask

no problems at all with mixing?

and yeah 7/8 is straight ridic

i think mine might actually need repair or something, cause i have mad trouble assigning inputs. like, it seems to "forget" several times per track and i have to be continuously assigning

it's probably just old age. are they even repairable?

probably not. i might take it apart and blow in it tho

jk

i dunno you might be on to something. have you tried canned air? blow it in and around the buttons that assign the tracks

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i haven't tried it but im def going to. its in great cosmetic condition, and really doesnt glitch out or act crazy that much, it's just the track assignments and faders that act weird occasionally. i guess it's just old.

can anyone recommend a solid cassette recorder or four track for the sole purpose of bouncing tracks out of the computer, on to tape, and then back into the computer? i've been looking for a marantz 430 but they can be a little pricey.

i don't think anyone makes tape four-tracks anymore, so you'd have to look for one in good condition on ebay

i guess that's obvious, sorry.

yeah totally, i just want to know which one would be good for my purposes. i guess any of them?

yeah i think condition is going to be more important than brand if you're just using it to analog up digital tracks

why not just grab a 4 track cheapo reel to reel?

me and this thing, its such a weird codependent semi-abusive relationship

i hate it so much and have no respect for it, but i just cant bring myself to use anything else