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Thanks! But to be brutally honest I'd be too embarrassed to let you hear most of it. It's all pretty bad. One of these days I'll run across somebody local that has one.

I'd be more inclined to go with Paul McGowan's new studio. It's quite a story they have with the equipment and brain power/people behind the scene's. https://www.psaudio.com/octave-records/

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I still have mine too but it won't work with the old 4 track tapes. My 488 (iirc) is still like new. I took very good care of it. Demagnetized the heads before and after I used it. Cleaned the heads and metal with alcohol and the rollers with distilled water. Learned real fast working on printers and copiers to never use alcohol on rubber. Cleans it really great and dries it out and makes it smooth and slick. If you use Studio One you can transfer the tracks and line them up. I did that with quite a few of my masters. On my 8 track it only has 4 outputs so I had to do them in groups and line them up in S1. It only works if you have drums on 1 track. Transfer in small groups using the drum track as a timing anchor in each group and align the groups using the drum tracks as the alignment references. Works like a charm.

Nice. I'll be there in 20 minutes. The reason I know any of them will work is I borrowed one from a guy I was in a band with up in IA. It was a completely different model but was a 4in 4out and it worked. Problem was at the time my audio interface only had 2 inputs.

My brother and I did an entire Christmas album on it. I wanted to transfer the tape to my daw and fix stuff but I doubt it will ever happen. Im not paying 800 bucks for one.

Yepper. 6 inputs 4 tracks. Tapes recorded at normal cassette speed. I found this pic on ebay. This is it or very similar. I thought the knobs were stand up not flat like this but I could be wrong. It was over 30 years ago. I do know it had mechanical play/record/ff buttons. You could hear the loud clack at the beginning and end of recordings. Any tascam 4 track that records at normal tape speeds will play the tapes but I need one with 4 outputs. The smaller ones had 4 in but only a stereo out. It was my brothers recorder and I ended up using more than he did. It stopped working and he threw it out. I was pissed.

Seriously though that's pretty scary stuff. CA and a few other states banned the sale of everything above a console quality gaming PC. IOW ... buy a PS or Xbox or no game for you! It's only a multi billion dollar industry. Let's just lob that off at the head. Hah. ☺

I have a whole box of cassettes I recorded on one of those. I want to transfer them all to my daw but I no longer have access to a machine. The one I used was a 4 track 1:1 speed unit with 6 inputs. Wish I could find one.

I read California just banned gaming PCs because they use too much power. I imagine DAWs and other "non-essential" PCs will follow shortly.

I'm still on 4 and I love it. Been thinking of upgrading to 6 this fall when I have more free time. I like the tape deck part of it. I don't remember how I did it but I used it to capture just effects for a vocal I did one time. Running your vocals through an amp with distortion yields great results too. You can do all kinds of great things with G.R. ?

I agree. I don't know why I posted it. Shock over the wall of Kustom amps I guess. Hah. They did an entire heavy rock album IIRC and this was one of the tracks. Pat Boone is great too. And a good man. A rarity in the music biz I would say.

When I bought that Mustang amp from G.C. I had to order it. The demo model I tried at the store here in K.C. (Overland Park to be exact) looked like it was dragged behind a truck and they wouldn't give a discount on it so I ordered a new one online. Their warehouse is here in K.C.. I was supposed to have it in 2 days and it didn't show up and no tracking. I called and asked if I could pick it up at the warehouse since I lived so close. The guy says, "What the hell do you want it so bad for man?". And that was the last time I bought anything from G.C.. and I never will again. And I returned the amp once it eventually did show up. On that note the guy on Amazon has 5 more of those lefty Acoustisonic's I've been itching to get. Now to decide if I should beg my wife for approval or forgiveness ... I'm sorry you guys are having to wait for this stuff. It sucks and the longer it gets bounced and transferred around in this boiling heat the worse it is.

I guess I'll grab me hat. I love some of these 'clunkers' you guys are posting. ☺

Check out the Kustom amp lineup. Wow!

Never heard of that before. That sucks.

I really dig your posts. Hah!

I turned down another free trip to Hawaii because I've been so busy. My wife has to go back for work again next Saturday and wanted me to go but I passed. One major project done so far is Friday and Saturday I had to trim the tree line from the woods. 9am to 6pm both days. 97 degrees both days. Everything was getting overgrown and it's been several years since I did this last. I got covered in poison ivy which I NEVER get (thank you Johnson & Johnson) so I had to take time to do this. Here's a partial before pic of a small section and an after video of what I did fri and sat. The vid starts where my property line starts and ends where it ends on 2 sides. Every inch had to be cut and trimmed. I am worn out.

You should try buying a lefty fender acoustisonic. I finally broke down and decided to get one on amazon. There has been 10 available for months from 2 vendors. Zero available now and I get a message saying they don't know if they ever will be in stock again. There's 1 guy with 1 on ebay. 99.5% positive ratings with 10s of thousands of items sold. Same guy who was selling them on amazon so now I'm hesitant to buy it because he says he doesn't have any on amazon and no eta if any on restock.

Is that how they start the autopilot?

I've watched it 3 times. It's really good. That part where his strap comes off is great. I really like the part where they are trading leads and EC whips RR to pieces. Love the look on ECs faces when he's doing it.

There are 2 music documentaries on Hulu now that are superb. One about The Band called Once Were Brothers and a brand new one out a couple days ago called McCartney 321. I learned tons of things about The Band I never knew like they had been together since they were kids. The McCartney one is a multi part series. I watched episode 1 tonight. It was fantastic. There's also a non music related one call Sasquatch. I starts out being about "bigfoot" but takes a wicked turn. I get Hulu free with my cell service. They offer a free trial period if you don't have it. Worth the hassle for these 3 shows. To be honest ... these are the only 3 shows I've ever watched on Hulu. 4 sorry ... they have The Last Waltz also.

Dumb question ... What is bandlab? Is it an app or did they redo CbB? Btw yeah I got an email but honestly I had no clue what they were talking about.

The trick is you have to understand how to drive what you are driving. I always get better mileage than my wife does in her 4 cyl. for example. It's becausr she just goes and doesn't think about it. I used to drive 45K miles a year for work and I watched my mpg like a hawk. I had a Honda Fit and got 47 mpg in it. I started keeping an excel spreadsheet with mileage because nobody believed me. What opened my eyes was the realtime mpg indicator on the dash of my truck. If you go slow it takes you longer to get from point A to point B and you get 4 to 6 mpg when you gi from a dead stop. You still get 4 to 6 mpg if you accelerate faster but you get to a more 'coasting' speed quicker which uses less gas. I see these old farts going 20 - 25mph in a 40mph zone thinking they are saving gas and are actually using more because the engine has to work harder to pull the weight of the truck. What I do is get to the speed limit as quick as I can and I set my cruise control even in slow zones. You can't set it below 35 so I set it at 35 and back it down. I coast if nobody is behind me if I can from long distanced to stop signs and lights. Here's a screenshot of the dash of my truck. It's a 2018 GMC Sierra. I had a brand new 2018 GMC Sierra but a school bus ran a stop sign and totalled it and almost killed me. The only one I could find to replace it was the one I found with a bigger engine. The pic of the one with Best 24mpg is my V8 5L the pic with Best 29.9 is my current V8 6L.

I can't believe I did this but double speaking of Eagles, my wife through work got first shot at tickets to go see The Eagles here in K.C. and I turned them down. It's official. I'm old. I just heard on XM Classic Vinyl channel today that Vince Gill has joined them. I bet that's going to be a heck of a show.