Roger W. Norman wrote:
I'd stay away from Scully 8 track RTRs, just on general principles. And I'd
stay away from Tascam units too, even though I owned a 38 for 10 years. Did
a good job, but it limited my abilities to do a better job.

I would second that, WITH an exception for the Scully 280B, which is actually
a nice machine. The original 280 is a machine to avoid like the plague, and
if you find a 100 that hasn't met the crusher already, it might be worth helping
it go there.

I kinda agree with Mike Rivers on an Ampex 1200 (better than the 1100) 2"
and although a lot of clients won't want to pay the money for tape, at least
it can sound really good. It ain't light so you'll have to have someone
local who does studio calls for maintenance and repairs.

The 1100 is still a nice machine, and both the 1100 and 1200 are fairly easy
machines to work on. There are a lot of them out there that have been beat
to hell, though.

The 440-8 is selling for very little these days, but again a lot of them are
in rough shape. You need to buy from somebody who you can trust to sell you
what you're paying for.
--scott

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