Nail Soup

(Dog walked, back to cassette activity!) Step 3 - choose a cassette This looks like a good one, bringing back memories!

Step 2 - power supply More digging around in the loft, and I have the Fostex power supply. Its pretty heavy, the power supply alone weighs a lot more than the Zoom 4 track device which superseded the Fostex!

Step 1 - leads dug around and managed to find four channels worth of phono to jack lead. No purchase required, so good so far.

Wow thats a really kind offer!!!.... Im going to see if I can get the buss signals out of the (partly broken) original Fostex first...... but if that fails.........??

Ok, really geting started on this now. Just for fun, and in case anyone is interested, and in case anyone can help along the way with tips, I'll do a kind of diary in here. Lets see how it goes !!

Looks a bit Prince?

BBC 6 music are celbrating 50 years of the "Paranoid" Album today.

Thanks for the continued tips. I will try at the weekend to get some signal out of the Buss sockets to my existing audio interface DAW which has only two channels. I'll record two tracks to DAW as a kind of proof of concept. But based on your advice, I won't do it in multiple takes. If it works, I'll obtain a (budget) four-channel audio interface and use that to do all four tracks at once. It's been a long time since I used the recorder, the adiochain is broken somewhere (hopefully before the Buss outs) and I have never used the buss channels - so wish me luck!

except they look great! I presume there gonna sound pretty good too though?

Thanks for all the replies!! I just went to where it is stashed in the loft. It's a Fostek 460 - it's got a 8 track mixer and four track recorder. Sorry the pic is upside down. It is not working, but I think the tape mechanism is OK, and I think the issue lies quite near the end of the audio chain. So the individual 4 tracks are probably OK if I can access them. I'm not very technical but I'm hoping the four Buss outputs will relate to the four tracks on the tape. I should be able to try it at the weekend. Would that be a suitable output to run to the audio interface (I have a presonus) where I plug my guitars into? And then use the DAW to record the 4 tracks to seperate tracks in the daw? Well.......I only have two tracks on the interface so I'd have some syncing up to do. Or maybe buy a second hand four input interface and sell it afterwards?

(inspired by the 1/4 inch tape thread) I have a drawer full of 4 track cassettes from way back when that was the main way to do home recording. The 4 track machine doesn't work any more. I may or may not be able to fix it. Any tips/comments/experince on getting them transferred to WAV files (Including how to sync them up in DAW.)? With and without a 4-track machine? They are recorded (as most are I think) at double speed.

You can add the reggae knee bend to that list.

Interesting and nice pedalboard! Just out of interest - why did you go for the 'totally wireless' solution? ... to keep the area tidy of cables?... or is there some other advantage?

And they were free!

I'm pretty keen on not having cables on the floor - thats why I use rechargable power supply for my pedals (no mains lead). Wireless from pedalboard to amp would help with that.... but like OP I'm worried about the dual latency. However, I more often go from pedalboard straight to PA nowadays..... so I think there may not be much to gain by losing the cable to the PA.

Not been through it myself...... but maybe go with the lighter picks and you might land on a new sound you like?

Haha enjoyed that! The electric instruments sounded good and the dancing was great too. Even the bass player joined in a bit near the end😄!!

Yes, I can and do dance while playing. In my punk/new-wave covers band I move and dance a lot. The other guys are rooted to the spot - they are happy to let me get on with it. For me one of the advantages of using an amp sim pedal instaed of an amp is more room to dance. Dancing not up to stanard of Bruno Mars band though! Story? Nearest I've got is: a couple of people from work came to a gig ..... one of them said that my stage performance reminded her of when her son fogets to take his hyperactivity medicine!

Xvive XU2 for me..... I've been using a couple of years with no issues. They are reasonable price (about £100), plug straight into the Guitar and amp/pedal (no need for a belt-pack or whatever) and both transmitter and receiver are re-chargable, so no batteries and no need to run a mains lead. I don't know what the latency is, but I don't notice it.

Cool! Hope there’s a TAB key for those of us who don’t read music 😀

Vox Standard 25. Been my number 1 six string for over 35 years!

Tribute to Toots on BBC 6Music tonight at 6pm..... the Now Playing show. Listeners will pick favorite Toots tracks plus influences on him and influenced by him. Will be available on BBC sounds.

I enjoyed the program for the history, context and technical notes....... but a little more playing of the Hurdy Gurdy would have been good.

I hardly ever sell stuff. I only buy a limited amount of gear, so don't need to move it on. I only buy budget gear, so there is not much money tied up in it. I am reaching the maximum amount of space now, so If I did get a new bass or acoustic guitar I'd probably dispose of the old one.

Oh dear! As already mentioned he just released an album........ based on lead track (which I posted a week or two ago in this thread) it was a good one. RIP Toots!