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abruno17

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I’m looking for a three head deck that supports type 3 FeCr cassettes (yes I do have some I want to record on) that has a built in calibration tone to calibrate the bias and or record level. I just want to make the best recording plus It would be a secondary recording deck, not the primary one. If you could help me that would be great because I’ve tried googling it and I guess it was a very specific request that it couldn’t figure out. Oh and if it had vu meters that would be a plus.
 
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I would check some higher end deck listings in the Bay. Study the photos for inclusion of all your desired features.
 
abruno17 said:
I’m looking for a three head deck that supports type 3 FeCr cassettes (yes I do have some I want to record on) that has a built in calibration tone to calibrate the bias and or record level. I just want to make the best recording plus It would be a secondary recording deck, not the primary one. If you could help me that would be great because I’ve tried googling it and I guess it was a very specific request that it couldn’t figure out. Oh and if it had vu meters that would be a plus.
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Kenwood KX-1030 meets all the requirements, completes a nice silver stack:), I have four of them.
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I had one of these and loved it!

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abruno17 said:
three head deck that supports type 3 FeCr cassettes (yes I do have some I want to record on)
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That makes little sense: by now the chrome layer has decayed, and these tapes no longer behave as regular type III FeCr.

Type I bias, 70us replay eq, and ideally a variable record equaliser working around 4-6kHz may do the job.
 
I'm just going to do my thing, and say "pretty much every higher-up deck from Akai, made after the mid 70's". Big fan of the GXC-760 myself, but a younger model might have it's advantages.
 
Sony TC-K777 and TC-K777ES both have three heads and full, front panel bias and sensitivity calibration, and will handle Type III FeCr, as well as Type IV metal. Digital meters though.
 
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