Today, nearly anyone can make a song in 15 minutes, upload it a few minutes later, and have someone in another hemisphere hear it that same day. "While doing those takes I was like, 'Man, I gotta make something out of this mess.' " It's a glimpse of rap's humble beginnings but also its early hurdles: the need not just for equipment and technical prowess, but for a connection, for finding someone with clout to whom you could hand that tape. As he told Red Bull Music Academy later, he would take "some janky-ass stereo system" with dual cassette recorders and make pause tapes out of his dad's jazz collection, taking hours at a time to loop small sections of songs into crude beats. Like most Black kids then, he didn't have a track machine, so learning the craft required a workaround. But circumstances forced the young Q-Tip, the rapper-producer who would soon found A Tribe Called Quest, to get creative with his equipment. Once upon a time, not long ago, to paraphrase a great rap storyteller, an 11-year-old in Queens became obsessed with the nascent rap movement. Here's a story about one measure of the distance hip-hop has traveled in its 50 years. The heads on this one are in very good condition.Hey, young world. The heads last a long time, and it’s rare that a deck would have sheds so worn that the deck is a write-off. The electronics of these units were generally reliable, and failure of the channel PC boards or other similar issues are rare, even to this day. These decks all have pitch control, and some form of Dolby noise reduction (usually Dolby C) to improve the signal to noise ratio. The upside of all of the Fostex 8 track ¼” tape machines was that they had many features found on higher end machines, such as the 15 IPS tape speed! These models provided good quality recordings to past 22Khz. This format put home studio multitrack recording within a budget for every musician. It has a stereo headphone out via a 1/4" jack and RCA outs.įostex manufactured many multitrack machines, and was one of the few companies that put out an 8 track multitrack machine on ¼” tape. The 80 is a little workhorse of a machine! It has two mic pre-amps on each of its two channels via 1/4" inputs. Although slightly underbiased for this, using this tape will produce more high end. Since Quantegy no longer produces tape, it can use RMGI (Emtec) LPR 35, which is the equivalent of Quantegy 457, a +6 tape. It can be run at 7.5 or 15 ips and was designed to record on 1 mm thick, +3 tape such as Quantegy 407. This means it will have the same amount of track width as a 2" 16 track recorder. The Fostex Model 80 is a two track reel to reel recorder than prints to 1/4" tape on 7" (or smaller) reels in one direction. Has the typical few led's out on the meters, which don't really matter as the ones above work fine. *Special Bonus* We are including a TEAC head demag tool! Excellent Condition! Includes take up reel and the original manual.
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