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8 tracks are a pain in the ass

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:17 am
by robert(original)
so about..... 5 months ago or more i posted a thread about how tracys guitar was sounding like dick when it was recorded.
at first i thought it was a bad cable, then i thought the amp had problems.
then my attention went towards the 8-track but at that point we had stopped trying to record.
SOOOOOO....... flash forward to now, i tried to track a couple of my tunes and i found out that track 3 is fuct.
it doesn't record worth a shit and when it does it sounds like muddled asshole.
i sprayed it with some compressed air and what not but that didn't do anything for it.
does anyone have any ideas?
its a tape style tascam porta-studio mkIII.
does tascam have good customer service or will i get butt fucked like ibanez or the post office?

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:02 am
by theseglossyeyes
bend over :(

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:14 am
by Doog
Try a headcleaner tape.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:19 pm
by ElCapitan
i know how you feel, track 4 of my 4-track has stopped working, although only after I opened it up to reconnect the tape spinner thingy. a head cleaner tape is a good idea though.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:36 pm
by aphasiac
4 track? 8 track? TAPES?

hello this is the 90s calling, we want our old hissy recording tech back.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:42 pm
by paul_
aphasiac wrote:4 track? 8 track? TAPES?

hello this is the 90s calling, we want our old hissy recording tech back.
The 90's would be more likely to take up issue with you stealing all it's women, I'd think.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:08 pm
by Mike
Burn.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:33 pm
by aphasiac
heh, that was actually quite a good quip.

made me giggle anyway.

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:41 am
by robert(original)
i like the sound of tape better than digital,
the whole compressed digital thing really irritates me, im not even sure how i get a decent sound out of my cyber twin, altho in its defense it does have tubes and a solid state circut.
so tape cleaner?
really? i'll give it a shot, i think i still have one of those things around somewhere.

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:10 am
by Doog
paul_ wrote:
aphasiac wrote:4 track? 8 track? TAPES?

hello this is the 90s calling, we want our old hissy recording tech back.
The 90's would be more likely to take up issue with you stealing all it's women, I'd think.

ZIIIIIIIING!