Originally Posted by Matt Finley
I also had a Teac 4-track with 15” reels. I still have it but I haven’t dared to try any of the old tapes, and I’m sure the rollers would have flat spots. It had an outrigger sound-on-sound attachment with push buttons to route signals to combine a signal with a prior recording, so you could do multitrack recording up to a point when the sound quality would degrade.

I hear you. I have multiple analog decks in my basement. The thought of ever using them again… well, first, what’s the condition of the belts, heads and electronics? Do I need to get new calibration tapes from MRL?

My friend, Bill Hare (Pentatonix, London Symphony etc.) turned me onto Thin Brown Line Studios last week. I’m going to send them a few reels and see how it turns out.


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