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I gave the tape heads a clean before returning this machine and still nothing unfortunately. Thanks for the tips though, will definitely keep them in mind moving forward!

Thank you for watching! I was absolutely gutted at the issues with it, but I'm current looking to downsize to a 424 to replace it as the size of the 488 was a little too big for my current setup anyway. Do you have any other recommendations for 4 track machines with two effect sends?

@@zaktaylor You could have a look at the Yamaha MT4X. I have the 8 track version and love it (both have 2 aux sends). I’ve not had much luck with the 424mkiii’s myself, I’ve bought 3 of them in the past and they all occasionally made strange popping and clicking noises whilst recording.

So awesome, and super fun too! Currently waiting on a good condition 424 to come up myself, very excited to carry on exploring the workflow!

Thanks for watching! I'm too early in the journey to know the answer to this unfortunately but am also curious to know the answer. Hopefully someone who knows can jump in and enlighten us!

100% man, I'm watching eBay like a hawk recently so hopefully something that at least has all functional tracks comes up!

So true haha, and you actually own the media!

Thank you! That's the plan once I find a replacement for this faulty machine 😭 Really appreciate you watching, subscribe to stay up to date!

insert points on the front? this is how you can add compression to a track if needed (it's rare to need, most common to use with vocals, tho)

The 388 is the dream! Gutted that I had to send this back but looking to get a 4-track instead for the smaller size. Thanks for the compression tip too, would be nice to get some tighter vocal/drum processing

@@zaktaylor Look into a Tascam 424 mkiii.

@@oinkooink That definitely looks like the one! Will also save me from re-learning the workflow as it looks like the little brother of the 488

It’s never too late!

This sounds great, I'm currently looking for a new recorded as this one did end up being faulty, but I'll keep this in mind!

Thank you so much man! I definitely would recommend it, even just for refreshing the process and creating in a more focused way. The song really comes first over all else recording this way

Thank you! They're my precious babies right there

Thank you so much! It was so fun to jump into this form of recording, check out the full video for more of the process!

Thank you, I appreciate you watching!

Thank you so much, glad my random lightbulb moments as I went though the process could help you!

Thank you!

You definitely should! Would love to see the results

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I think that is the main benefit of this, it can't be recreated the exact same way twice!

Muito obrigado!

Hahaha I guess just wait until all your ink runs out and you're in shitty printer heaven!

I was also surprised at how expensive it is these days, I guess it's because it's so niche. Also, I've recently been down the rabbit hole of Tascam 4 and 8 track recorders and your videos really helped in the process of going for the Tascam 488, real good stuff!! I've got a video dropping here soon about it!

@@zaktaylor ohhh awesome! I can’t wait to check it out. I need to try working with the 488 again. I haven’t had the best time with it so far, but I need to give it another chance.

That means a whole lot to me man, thank you! Really enjoying making these videos in between my usual media work. Also, just checked out your channel and I'm definitely about to binge through some videos, great stuff man!

@@zaktaylor appreciate that! again, great work here!

@@MadeOnTape I just realised that I already watched a bunch of your videos when researching 4 and 8 track analogue recording for an upcoming video, amazing stuff man, keep it up!!

@@zaktaylor yo thank you

Thank you for watching!

You have to put the folder with the effect files in it in this location on your Mac: Users > "your username" > Movies > Motion Templates > Effects I hope that helps!

thank you so much for your quick answer! I had another question - when you export the frames, it doesn't export it at 12 frames. It does it at 30 fps, so there's so many stills. Is that normal? @@zaktaylor

Thank you so much for watching!

Very true! It's a surprisingly long lasting medium for sure

Thank you for the tip! I'll definitely try this out as it took sooo long with my method

I used Final Cut Pro X in this video, but any video editing software should work the same for this!

Thank you!!

That’s amazing that you still have them in operation! Thanks for the support, I have some more tape based projects in mind for this channel!

Thank you for the info! I did find a couple of those tape erasers online but at the time of doing this project they were very expensive for some reason, it would have saved me a lot of time for sure. I’ll be dipping my toes onto some audio tape projects on this channel soon too!

Wow I bet that was a sight to see for sure. Even the “proper” way of doing things had that janky yet practical edge to it

Amazing! Digitising family home videos from the 90’s was the thing that got me into this whole rabbit hole originally, it’s incredible to be able to relive and save those old memories!

This is a great idea. I did find some really old “tape erasers” that were basically a powered magnet but they were sooo expensive. It’s good to know that a regular magnet can work for it too

Thank you so much! I’m really glad you found it helpful, part of my motivation for this was the lack of clear information out there when I was going through the process, so I’m so glad it can help someone else to make something cool!

This brought back some memories, the good old days 🙌

Don’t tempt me 😂👀

I honestly think any printer will do! It depends how clean you want the final look to be. As you saw in this video, my printer actually up breaking and I still went with it and liked the outcome!

I was wondering the same thing. Also is he doing this in adobe premiere ?

The frame rate emulator was from fcp.co which is no longer a website (RIP), but I've uploaded it to a link in the description for you!

@@themeatbeaters The software I use in this video is Final Cut Pro, the link to the frame rate emulator is also in the description!

Thank you, I'd love to see the results!

Thank you for watching!

I'm so glad it could help, I thought it would be stupidly hard too, but breaking it down into steps made it a really enjoyable process. Thank you for watching!

Thank you so much 🙌