Cables: 4-Track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder

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On behalf of Expert Village, this is KGB Studios Seattle. I am the Chief Engineer, Kurt Glaser, welcoming you to the last session on 4-track reel to reel. What we're going to do here is quickly just summarize what have learned by going through some of the parts and equipment that you need to be a successful analog recording enthusiast. So we'll do that right now. Well, one of the things for sure you're going to need is a reel to reel machine. No doubt about that, this is where your analog device, 4-track reel to reel machine, you'll need that. You will also need, no doubt, some kind of mixing device like this mixing board here, which is a 6-2-1 channel mixer. And it's also a power mixing board as well. Headphones would be something else you'd probably want to invest in. As you see, I have a whole bunch of them that I use for monitoring the audio signal through the mixer or through the 4-track machine. No doubt, you will also need some sort of recording environment with equipment like musicians use, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, some sort of percussion instruments, to actually lay the audio down. And last, but not least, you'll also need some sort of cabling plant, cabling environment, because you'll have XLR-types of connections, that's also some sort of Y-connector, this is a stereo. As you can see the separator right here to here there's two of them. So separators so you can run two headphones or two microphones. You also have all sorts of connectors here for cross connecting and making solid connections. Also you have your RCA connectors here, which have adapters on them. So an adapter plant would also be helpful. There's your RCA connectors there. And, of course, we talked about the XLR connectors, male and female. And, of course, you'll need some sort of cabling environment as well to run this system effectively. Well that about wraps it up for this session on the 4-track reel to reel. Well you'll have to excuse me because I've got some work to do. I've got a microphone cable to wire up and check its continuity. 'Til then, this is Kurt Glaser at KGB Studios. You can email me at the link that's down below. We'll be happy to try to answer your question. Most of my experience borders around the Dokorders, the Ataris, the Task Cams and the Yamaha recording devices. I also have a little experience on a great old version called the A77 Revox half-track reel to reel. So if you have any questions on that, we'll try to answer them as best we can. Other than that, for Expert Village, KGB Studios.

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