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Re: gear question...old school yamaha stuff



Hi,
I had a Yamaha MT44D ( the black fronted updated version of the MT44) back 
in
1985. It was my first multitrack and was a great way of getting into
multitracking. I've still got recordings - mainly acoustic folkie stuff 
and I
got good results for these early ventures. It only ran at 1:7/8ips (rather
than
the double speed of Tascams and I think Fostex units). It was fine but, 
unless
its incredibly cheap, you'd have far more sound quality and facilities 
from a
secondhand minidisc 4track  or even the AKAI DR4vr and DR8 go very cheap
secondhand now, as does the EMU Darwin etc. I think that even one of the
Tascam
more recent Porta studios would give you better results than the MT44. Oh, 
and
I used mine with an MTR 6/4/2 mixer. Hope this helps.

Ian.


02:18 24/03/03 , you wrote:
>greetings...sorry for the semi-off-topic post, but
>this always seems to be the best place for gear
>opinions!
>
>anyone know anything about:
>
>- yamaha mt44 multi-track cassette recorder (4track)
>      and the
>- yamaha mm30 mixer
>
>i recently saw someone selling these two pieces pretty
>cheap and i can't find any info on them on ebay,
>yamaha site, and a few music gear sites, so i'm
>guessing they are probably no longer produced.  anyone
>have any info on these or know a good place to find
>out about ancient gear?
>
>thanks,
>evan
>evanmeyers@yahoo.com
>
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