• The move to the new server is done. There are some software and database maintenance updates in process. This has us passing the hat around to help out. We appreciate any donations. Seriously, even a dollar helps. The payment page may be found here - https://www.audiokarma.org/support.html

Tascam BR-20 Newbie Question

W

Wayne C

New Member
Just purchased one of these reel to reels , im not a musician or recording person I just wonder how this can be compared to other decks of the Period

I used to own for a short period a teac X 1000 R would the Tascam BR-20 be looked at asa higher quality machine and can around £300 or $450 with 8 ampex 456 tapes and spools be looked at as a good price

thanks
 
Register to hide this ad
The Ampex tapes will be trash-sheddy. bake them if you want to recover the material, but just load the reels with nice new production tape.

The BR-20 was Tascam's last machine, and a really nice deck. It won't play the tapes you made on your X-1000R due to being half track stereo, but will record and playback really well. $450 is a nice price.
 
vinyldavid said:
The Ampex tapes will be trash-sheddy. bake them if you want to recover the material, but just load the reels with nice new production tape.

The BR-20 was Tascam's last machine, and a really nice deck. It won't play the tapes you made on your X-1000R due to being half track stereo, but will record and playback really well. $450 is a nice price.
Click to expand...

thanks for the reply so soon, can you let me know what I should look out for and explain about the tape issue?, can you buy tape without reels, I had reel to reel years ago and am looking forward to Analogue recording, would this tascam be looked at as a better model than the Teac x-2000 M and R models thanks

Also can I connect a cd player direct to the XLRs , my cd has XLRs on the back or do you need amn amp to boost the signal thanks
 
HELL YES it's better than Any Teac X2000 series deck.

You can buy pancakes without reels at a lower cost.

Yes you can connect your CD player directly to it.

About the tapes not being compatible...

AudioTrackHalf.jpg


Above is a prepresentation of 1/4" tape the way that the BR-20 records stuff on tape. it uses half the tape for the left channel and half the tape for the right. No"back side" to the tape. Advantages of: better quality, more dropout prevention, better signal stability.

This is your X1000R:

AudioTrackQuarter2.jpg


As you can see it puts more tracks on the tape, but the BR-20 can't read or recod that properly.
 
vinyldavid said:
HELL YES it's better than Any Teac X2000 series deck.

You can buy pancakes without reels at a lower cost.

Yes you can connect your CD player directly to it.

About the tapes not being compatible...

AudioTrackHalf.jpg


Above is a prepresentation of 1/4" tape the way that the BR-20 records stuff on tape. it uses half the tape for the left channel and half the tape for the right. No"back side" to the tape. Advantages of: better quality, more dropout prevention, better signal stability.

This is your X1000R:

AudioTrackQuarter2.jpg


As you can see it puts more tracks on the tape, but the BR-20 can't read or recod that properly.
Click to expand...

thank you very much for that, really nice of you to point that out, and for answering in the first place.

where go you buy the pancakes from !! thanks a lot

Wayne
 
The only thing is how do you get the unspooled tape on the reels that one seems confusing to a new convert like me, also i've read a few posts about Head cleaning and Rubber cleaning on these machines any recommended products on ebay would be great as im from the UK
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom