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Old 24th February 2008   #20
Dunebuggy
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Originally Posted by mraaronrash View Post
I bought an Otari MX-5050 off of ebay hoping to warm up my squeaky clean digital recordings. Surprisingly it does not seam to warm up the recordings very well or even at all... It still sounds digital. Im trying to get modulation noise and sidebands and that nice saturation. Im wondering if the heads were replaced with digital ones maybe? Im recording on Quantegy 456.
If you have access to a food dehydrator you can put your hard drive in it for a few hours (depending the duration of the project) , it will warm the data , it s call baking.
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