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Thank you so much, Paul, for this video. The SSL Six mixer was so expensive when I bought it. It was a little overwhelming for me to use until your video came along. Now I am using it all the time because your video "broke the ice" for me to actually start using this great mixer. Thanks again.

how does this compare to the other tascam tape portastudios?

Thanks man❤

❤love the sound

Nice video. Keep Cassettes Alive! Please make more cassette videos.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙂

it never stopped! tape is still being used!

Cool; i've got a 246 .. all ears .. I'm jazz-oriented "jams" & practise-trks

Definitely will not blow it up. :) love experimenting with my six as well. Endless possibilities with gear. Especially as I have db25 connected to a patch bay.

Please make more cassette videos.Cassettes are so cool

Excellent tutorial. Leave Vox and Bass routed to channel 1!?!

Route an SM57 to a guitar amp.

Route SSL Fusion through Bus B!?!

I have the Saffire Pro 40. Still working like a Tank on my MacPro. It sounds great. Preamps are fine, but I normally use external mic pres. This unit is slaved to my other two interfaces giving me a total of 24 analog inputs.

The tape choice is great because I often seen Type 2 tape as the near-perfect choice of tracking. I'd like to see BASF Chrome (Type 3) being used but it's pretty rare (as it was rare back then). Careful of metal (Type 4) there cause even though it's the rarest and greatest, if not compatible with your machine, it could eat up your machines and tape. Metal Tape Tip: there should be barbs up top in the middle much like there are on the sides to tell if it is metal compatible.

Cassettes are great

Stumbled upon this video - not sure how - but these are cool ideas. I find some old-school musicians/producers have crazy computer fears so they go DAW-less or with tape. That and nostalgia keep the demand for old Portastudios quite high. I used one to convert old 4-track recordings from the 90s to digital. I’ve been a Logic guy for 20 years with an ever-evolving home studio. Using the Tascam as an outboard FX is interesting, but I gotta believe there’s free plugins that sound similar. The sampling approach is nifty, but working those samples once in Ableton is key. I used to make my own samples, but decided a few years ago that everything has been sampled - why would I think my samples were any better or original? But, there’s something undefinable and the crude Tascam mixer and the idea of using the cassette tape, even with its wobble and tape hiss. I know a local artist that releases full albums on a 288 (no DAW, he says) and he’s got quite a following. Hard to explain.

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Yoo, could i use this as my interface in 2024? Or would it be a hassle? It would be my first interface

I have an old Sony real to real and I run my kick and bass through it then back into my DAW. The preamplifier gives it a nice warm hard sound.

Good Job!

Hello that’s very cool can you pre record your console and when played the 4 track moves up or down like the console ?

Getting the signal back from the pedals, where does the cable go?

Do I need to connect the Pro 40 via ADAT in- and output to work as a slave for just the inputs? I was thinking of connecting it to an UA Thunderbolt Interface, which only got an ADAT input

I just bought one of these. Can you explain how you are physically connecting the 246 to your interface. Are you connecting the inputs to through a patchbay and are you connecting the outputs to the patchbay or interface as well?

I have an Audient ID14 with adat.. its necessary to plug the focusrite on my computer? or its standalone with Adat? (Excuseme for my english)

I've recently acquired a Portastudio 424 mkII and I've been trying to figure out the best way to use it. Do you typically record onto tape and than play it back to record it into your daw? or just use the machine itself as a pre-amp (which I think your explaining in your video) but not really recording into the machine itself? just running the signal through it but recording into your daw?

how did you manage to get zero latency running to and from the external gear?

dude did you have to setup with the software drivers for the Saffire 40 before using the ADAT?

Not much Ableton/Six info out there. Good look. The compressors SOUND like REAL ssl compressors. Because they are! With limited settings.

Great vid, just that it ended abruptly

I had one of these from 1997-2014... I sold it to a collector who has refurbished it. Such a fun time... I think mine was a 244 though. I use a PC now. 19th solo album being recorded now.

I had one its fun!!!

Finally!!!! Got the talkback to work for drums using this foldback to Ext Input 1 loop technique. Could *NOT* get this to work until watching your video. Lifesaver, thank you.

peaceful vibe ty

Nice job rescuing a decent guitar.

Working in recording studios from the early 80’s till early 2000 I find it kind of strange that the whole industry now somehow seems to think that the basic concept of analog recording and routing is some kind of dark art, I’m just waiting for the chronograph pencil editing block and razor blade to become the fashion I remember getting shot of my 24 track tape machine in favour of three tascam adat machines, and then Mac and DAW, what a ride

Can't we use the D sub for that

What about routing through the D sub

Great job new subscriber

I've got an MPC One and it simulates vintage tube based equipment or lofi amps or low-sample-rate harmonics etc AMAZING. you could probably get a good sound out of one of those but the pure variety and quality offered by software fx is hard to beat. I've made drum tracks that sound 100% like they came out of an old drum machine you just got to find the right combinations unless you're rich and can waste money on random used vintage stuff, and like spending hours wiring stuff up just to make small variations in sounds

with the bands i work for i use different consoles some don't have the Quality FX and with outboard its the same every time

one of the best tascam machines ever made. In fact, one of the best four track cassette machines PERIOD.

What I like about the old stand alone is y can get ideals down fast and not forget what you was doing.

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