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Durable and reliable
God help me if I have to explain to some of the younger Equipboard members exactly what they are looking at here. This is a multitrack cassette recorder... which allowed you 4 straight tracks of continuous recording (drop ins and overdubs of sections resulted in an audible shift... so if you messed up, rewind and get it right again!) or the ability to ping pong tracks to provide even more layers (e.g drums bass and keys mixed down onto a single track... freeing up three tracks for additional recording... at some sacrifice of audio quality.
This was home studios back in the day.
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Hello there---I actually still have one of these 4 track recorders. But I have a question for you. I am attempting to transfer many of my older songs on cassette to digital and separate stems. (drums, vocals, synth etc) I cant seem to figure out how to export the sound//individual tracks to the computer. Do you know if this is possible?
I have used mine recently to send one audio track (the complete song) out of the multitrack and into an audio channel of my DAW so that I have a reference track to recreate the old songs accurately. This being said, the transfer quality is nasty, very audible tape hiss. I am sure if you wanted to this could be cleaned up. During the transfer process, all sliders for volume and EQ are active and as I was not going to broadcast this recorded version, the adjustments I made were clearly audible. Because they are active, simply activate an audio track in your DAW from the monitor or headphone outputs of your MT-120 to your audio interface and play the song into your DAW with 3 monitor sliders at zero and only with volume to monitor slider 1, then repeat the song three more times, with only the next slider (2, then 3, then 4) active. This will give you 4 audio tracks in your DAW. Then you simply align the 4 individual tracks at a start point. Obviously, if you have a way to treat the tape hiss, include that in the process for each track. Of course, if you ping ponged several instruments into one track, this will not be separated. Hope this helps.