"EganMedia" wrote in message ...
It
won't be mixed there, of course, but we got some darned good stuff on
2" tape.

So the machine is working again? Good!

Hi Joe,

It was really only down twice, but for several days each time because
I was trying to do the work myself in order to save the buyer money.
Unfortunately due to prior committments, the only time I had to drive out
and work on the machine, was time that we had booked for sessions.
Once the client started scratching his head, we paid for technical time.
Thanks goodness, all went perfectly well for the week that the producer
was in town.

You won't believe this, but after all was said and done, it was nothing
more than some intermittent cold joints on the power supply chimney.
I can't feel too bad though, because even though Steve Sadler had
me look there early on and I missed it, so did another qualified tech.
The symptoms came on so slowly and intermittently that there were
a few baffled people for a while.

Yes.. everything is cool and we highly appreciate the great deal on
the machine... it has lots of life left in it and worked(s) like a charm;
excepting the cold joints which manifested themselves in ways
that made things awkward to trace.

We did, however, pull the modifications out. That's something that
everyone who looked at the schematics and circuit definitely said,
"This must go". It hasn't so much as hiccuped since the mods
were removed and the power supply board totally resoldered.

I can't answer your earlier question because we changed a couple
of things, but once we set the machine up, it held it's alignments
really well. Based on the test tape and the tapes you sent us, it
also took the trip down remarkably well.

I'll let you know when the record comes out... probably in April.
Jim Gaines will probably mix it at Ardent in Memphis.

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David Morgan (MAMS)
http://www.m-a-m-s DOT com
Morgan Audio Media Service
Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901
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