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Maxell Tapes are the best we absolutely love them high bias joints but dont forget Memorex and fuji

I was just looking up this topic again. I’ve had 10 records lathed which was pretty rough and the website even warned about it. I’m very curious to try out vinyl post. That ones a Flexi disc on a postcard. And you can single order for super cheap. But I haven’t tried it yet.

this video rocks. nice work bruh.

Hi Landon. Really dig your videos. We almost had our last album pressed to vinyl. Unfortunately, we got caught up dealing with the PledgeMusic fiasco and lack of funding. Luckily, we (or our fans) got most of the money back, but we ran into some other issues while trying to have copies made. We were going through Third Man and even got a couple of test prints, but they were saying 10 songs was going to diminish sound quality so they recommended we cut out a song. There were some tensions in the band, and I didn't want to compromise, so we ended up abandoning the project. I ended up ordering copies on cassette instead, which was way less of a headache, and those are actually selling, so I guess things worked out. Would have been cool to see the vinyl work out, too, but we didn't have enough of a following or support to do so. Best of luck to you and anyone else out there doing their thing! It ain't easy. 🤘

Hey I'm Riley Bruce's kid I'm a pretty big fan of your content at magic spiral. I hope all is going well!! Also I've been experimenting in Ableton recently and stuff as well

I would readily buy an album, I hate streaming!

Thank you

I produced 20 cd releases for various artists on that exact machine - it's a real beast - it's got a SOUND

the Tascam 238 kills this machine

Such a beast of a unit.

Wow chucking 8 tracks onto that thin strip of tape hey?

Thanks for sharing

This was sweet! Just been getting into my 424 mkii and it’s been a bit of a long learning curve. I wanted to ask, can’t you record the stereo backing track through 5/6 or 7/8? Then use the other inputs for mono and panned tracks? I’ve been doing this on the mkii but still not really understanding where that signal records to. I think it’s like master bus, but where is it actually going on the tape? Is it duplicated on both channels on both sides of the tape, or first side, or what? Do you know? Cause then when you pan the tracks after recording, wouldn’t that also pan the recorded info from 5/6 and 7/8? I’m prolly just not understanding something. the manual doesn’t go into any depth about this as those inputs are usually dedicated to Fx

I genuinely like this video. That Portastudio rings A bell. I maid indie demo on that back 1990's. I wish you luck selling your tape

MY PLAY BUTTON NOT WORKING IS IT BELT DRIVEN. ?

The LED signal test at turning on the DA-38 was FIRE!!! My Maschine and Komplete Kontrol come second

For those seeing this video for the first time, some important information: The Tascam 688 and 238 are the ONLY 8 track cassette machines besides a TOA machine that can record ALL 8 tracks at once simultaneously. All others, from Yamaha, Fostex etc.. cannot record all 8. They have 8 tracks but it buses the record ins to two separate 4 track groups.

Who is the company you sent it off to to fix your Tascam 238? I have a 238 with the same problem.

This is just awesome, imagen what you could do with an 8 track portastudio with a built in CD burner on it.. :D

Honestly I just want to make some weird ambient acoustic synth whatever, like uh... Campfire Headphase kinda sound but nowhere near as complex. Would this be good for that? :v

Grr profile on this product! Thanks

Unless your bored I can not imagine why anyone would want to go back to those 4 track cassette recording days?

Sounds really good!

Hi where did you ship off the tape player to get fixed at . I need my lcd screen fixed on a qy700?

What's wrong with old tech, sounds good to me.

Great stuff, man. That track that kicks in around 2:50 has some *major* MBV Loveless era influences for sure. I hear it a mile away. Beautiful stuff.

This was dope dude!!!!

Sounds freaking gorgeous. I'm surprised at how stereo it sounds despite there only being 8 channels! Any tricks on how to get it to sound that wide?

I wanted to see where the machine gets hooked up..didn't help me..

I'd do it but you can't buy this kind of stuff in Australia

Hear the pathetic life guy story: wanted that machine badly when I was 20. When finally could afford it I was 46, bought it and...I was too old to understand how it works, especially my time was very limited due employment. So I sold it. The end. Conclusion: if you want something, go for it. Do every possible thing to get it asap, waiting is a big mistake

Hear the pathetic life guy story: wanted that machine badly when I was 20. When finally could afford it I was 46, bought it and...I was too old to understand how it works, especially my time was very limited due employment. So I sold it. The end. Conclusion: if you want something, go for it. Do every possible thing to get it asap, waiting is a big mistake

hello ! what do you think about the preamp and eg quality of this mixer ? thanks !

You filmed this like an old educational film like they played in my industrial technology class in elementary... good job

I found 2 da-88’s at a shop for $30 as well as a DA-30 mkii

In my first studio recording experience, we recorded to one of these DAT machines. In listening to those tracks, I recently found that I really enjoyed how full it sounds. I kept attributing it to the mastering because I kept thinking we recorded everything straight to the computer. But, now realizing that “fullness” wasn’t as apparent on the other album tracks, I have a sneaking suspicion the sound of those two tracks we used a DAT machine on sound great because of, well, the DAT machine! Got a bit nostalgic and bought one on eBay. Without even considering I’m going to need some RCA cables and possibly a patch bay and an 8-track mixer. That’ll all fall into place over time. Really hoping I didn’t get a lemon, as the seller says it’s functioning perfectly as it should. We shall see. Thank you so much for the video. Will definitely help a lot when getting it all set-up.

Absolutely amazing video. I can't congratulate you enough! Many of us who bought these machines tinkered with them but nothing more. They came out just as software was also competing and we were torn between outboard effects through signal chains in a big mixer, using these and going through the trauma of deciding if the preamps were good enough and clean enough, right down to just doing it on pro-tools which was a free download at the time. oddly my life later in life, took me down that path to work at Guitar center in California once and see what protools became. They grew up to buy Avid, which bought Digidesign and M-Audio. I was building my own mini mixer trying to market it when M-Audio's Midiman mixer came out. Then going to the M-Audio plant in Cali while working at GC made me feel like that whole empire could have been mine! So about My recorder... at one point I myself did buy a small recorder to go with my gear. Keyboards mainly, a bunchof them and I wanted somthing for recording ideas. This is my "sad" story about the VS-840 I had the VS-840 by Roland (sister company of boss) and this thing used Zip Disks. no one told me at the time I could have jus swapped that out for an IDE hard drive or put in a flash disk / CF or something if I had opened it. The zip disks had the infamous click of death, and one by one each of my disks were failing. I knew I could have backed up data to another and saved it, but there was such a futile feeling about it. Knowing no matter how many zip disks I buy would it not need to be replaced within months. It became my core mixer for other stuff, which was nice, the effects were fun, but it was so demoralizing and I had lost hope of recording like that again. Note: I was always a midi specialist so all my stuff was done on keys through outboard gear with 7 tone generator devices from pianos to synths, etc. The VS was strictly for guitar, maybe some pitched down guitar as bass, and any vocals or effects. but i can tell you, had that machine failed, the feeling of losing your work and progress would have been a major emotional blow. Even the UNDO button giving up would be terrifying. So I applaud you pushing through day by day not feeling conflicted that this could eat your work. That takes alot of trust. Your playing style is fantastic, song creation and intuition is sold pro level musician and the self assurance to know who you are and what you have to offer the world is so perfectly in place. Seeing this gives me a boost knowing if my 840 had been the 880 with the hard drive, I might have finished my stuff on it! Thanks for the video and the brief moment of group therapy which I never knew i needed! Even the manufacturers never promoted the machine to show how real of a studio it can be the way you proved this one was.

I cured myself of this disease after realizing that the more stuff I bought, the less productive, motivated and creative I became. I conned myself into believing that a particular piece of gear would take me to that mystical next level. What I ended up with is a bunch of shit on permanent display that I either didn't use, forgot how to use, or never really learned how to use in the first place, because right after getting it, I became aroused by some other gear that will level me up. . At one point I had a Roland Juno-106, Juno-60 and JX-3P - all at once...Why??? Pick the stuff you cannot deny is unused and sell it! No, don't put it in storage, get rid of it. move it along on its journey to meet another musician who will love it and use it. Or you can just admire it's awesomeness sitting there, not being used I guess...To each his own.

This is what music is all about

I also have it!!! I have made lots of my albums with it! until today!!!

Worst 4 track i ever used imo 👍

Informative, entertaining, well put together.

GREAT WORK MAN,I SALUTE YOU.

I recorded over 20 songs with it,it was a great experience, i still have mine!!

This is amazing. You are funny and informative! Perfect. Should i buy this for my 14 year old son. He can then live a journey akin to your 9 months of pleasure. Or are there better versions. I dont want him on a computer, he would end up watching belle delphine after 5mins of music making lol. I just got the zoom r8. Sadly it has no cd drive though. Is your comedy album on UA-cam?

Hi Landon, nice video. I have used three PCM 800 machines to record at least two dozen CD's of my own music. I'm having issues with the heads munching the Hi8 tapes. I understand the heads on these machines (as well as on the DA 88 machines) have a limited service hours and I am positive I have passed those limits. Do you know of any place that would be able to rebuild these machines? DA 88s are almost identical in every way, to me at least. Maybe I can find a couple DA 88 machines to replace these super heavy PCM 800 machines. Probably cheaper to replace than to ship to a shop somewhere. Also note: The operating examples and the set up for formatting tapes you gave in your video are dead on, and by the way, way cool. Much easier to understand than the mega confusing operation manual from Sony Sorry if I'm confusing Tascam DA 88 and the Tascam DA 38, I'm sure you get my point regardless.

Hey that was a great video !

I’ve been seeing about the patching and trying to find a solid video that can help make a bit more sense I AM SO GLAD I found this video Now I need an interface Any suggestions ?

Yoooooo I JUST got this board from a friend and am doing similar workflow as you

Very entertaining and informative video. Obviously, the progenitor to my Micro BR BR-80. Best little gadget I've ever bought in decades of playing and recording.. but would've jumped at the BR-1180 if I knew it was around 'back in the day' (don't know if it even made it to Oz). Thanks for posting...