"Natural sounding analog recordings are

Anonymous wrote:

why I still use an old S-VHS Zenith HiFi vcr with defeatable level
control
and individual left/right gain controls to make great sounding
recordings of
local bands"

No you don't, it is a JVC. The later ones made by Goldstar had no
such option. I suggest holding on to that this and maybe checking it
for capacitor crap from time to time.

I used to make live recordings of a band on a Beta HIFI. Get this,
I used a pair of headphones as microphones with a Shure mic preamp.
Sony MDR-CD5. Just hung them up on the wall. Later when dubbing to
cassette I used the pre outs of a Marantz reciever with the quadradial
control to expand the stereo image, and it worked of course. I has to
re-equalize a bit, but so what. It really didn't sound that bad. It
sounded better than some King Biscuit Flower Hour. i also had to run
it through Dolby B encode twice just to get it to fit in the dynamic
range of a cassette tape, even with HX.

Those are clunky ass old slow running machines those Zeniths, but
you know what ? They do the job and are reliable. I used to work on
VCRs for a living and you know what ? The ones I have the most
experience on are the junkiest. I cannot think of any common problems
on those right now. I also do not remember the equivalent JVC model
nummber, but the FCC ID should not start with AK8. It maybe is AJU or
maybe B something, I am not sure anymore. When I was doing VCRs I got
so much into the FCC ID I asked for it one the phone before even
going, or it coming in. Damn I used to know them by heart. Panasonics,
Hitachis, whatever. I would know if I had the parts in stock. Well at
least belts and idlers.

I did not **** around in business.


Interesting use of a 1970's era Marantz quad unit.