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Re: gear question...old school yamaha stuff
>
>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
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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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