Re: gear question...old school yamaha stuff

["max valentino" <ekstasis1@hotmail.com>]

>
>On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:18:07 -0800 (PST), Evan Meyers 
><evanmeyers@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>anyone know anything about:
>>
>>- yamaha mt44 multi-track cassette recorder (4track
>
I had one of these back in the mid 80s, also.  Somewhere I still have a 
box 
of tapes recorded using it, and will probably embarass myself someday by 
diggig those up!
It had good quality for a four track cassette machine.  The pressure 
switches for the cassette mechanism on mine eventually wore out...yes it 
did 
see a lot of use.
It had a very cool, for the time, modular design.  The tape deck was 
seperate from a 4 (or was it 6?) input mixer, which had shelving eq per 
channel and a master graphic eq.  Also seperate was a patch bay which 
allowed for some interesting flexiblity.
And the whole thing came with it's own "rack" which set the mixer/patchbay 
into it's own "tabletop" with the tape deck angled above it.  For the 80s 
it 
was pretty cool.
I agree it had more flexibilty and better sound quality than the Tascam or 
Fostex units of the same period....yet finding one today, no matter how 
cheap, seems a bit dated (and it will surely have many, many hours of 
recording/playback time on it).

Max

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