Portafuzz- b side fuzz

[Harry Klippton]

I assembled this maybe last June and only just boxed it. I redid the decal twice cuz i kept goofing it. It sounds good and is useful. I'm a big fan of that tascam distortion!

I can't decide if i like the blue knobs or the white. What do y'all think?

 

[Barry]

Looks good, think I'd go with black on the knobs

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Looks great.
I'm liking the blue knobs.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Just breadboarded this circuit and just came across this thread while I was looking to see if anyone had tried any mods to the circuit (I tried raising both C1 and C5 to 10µF to see if it would give me more of the classic flubby portastudio bass fartiness, but neither made very much of a perceptible difference if at any. Stock circuit it'll be!). Nice build- has that tascam look for sure.

I dig the blue knobs– which did you end up keeping on in the end?

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I'm with @Barry, I prefer the white to the blue but the white makes me wish the decal was white. So black.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Just breadboarded this circuit and just came across this thread while I was looking to see if anyone had tried any mods to the circuit (I tried raising both C1 and C5 to 10µF to see if it would give me more of the classic flubby portastudio bass fartiness, but neither made very much of a perceptible difference if at any. Stock circuit it'll be!). Nice build- has that tascam look for sure.

I dig the blue knobs– which did you end up keeping on in the end?

Looks like I left it as is

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Looks like I left it as is
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Nice! I actually like the separate blue and white a lot. It fits the tascam theme and is pretty similar to what I have going on with a tascam-in-a-box that I’ve been working on— I’ll send you a pic of it at some point. Just need to do the PCB layout at this point

 

[Harry Klippton]

Nice! I actually like the separate blue and white a lot. It fits the tascam theme and is pretty similar to what I have going on with a tascam-in-a-box that I’ve been working on— I’ll send you a pic of it at some point. Just need to do the PCB layout at this point

I can't wait to see it. I kept the two different color knobs because that's how the portastudios are. I think this was my first or second no film decal. I actually had a waterslide on there before this that was a little truer to the tascam look with white lettering and some other colors but I stripped it off in favor of the no film

 

[Harry Klippton]

It's not every day I get to talk about these so here you go

 

[Coda]

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The noise reduction feature on that blew my mind when I first used it. I had the cheapest one (silver), but would borrow that one from a friend from time to time…

 

[Dan0h]

It's not every day I get to talk about these so here you go
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Loved those days.

 

[Diynot]

Kids playing in 90’s garage bands unite! High school garage band I was in recorded our demo tape on one of these.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Around 2003, I went to guitar center with my bandmates, bought a portastudio, recorded a demo, and then returned it. I wish I had kept it

 

[Dan0h]

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Kids playing in 90’s garage bands unite! High school garage band I was in recorded our demo tape on one of these.

We all have so much in common it’s crazy.

 

[Diynot]

Around 2003, I went to guitar center with my bandmates, bought a portastudio, recorded a demo, and then returned it. I wish I had kept it

I sold that one a couple years ago to fund my first telecaster. It’s all a game of needs/wants (and available funds) at the moment.

 

[Feral Feline]

I like the Blue knobs for EQ with the White knobs for overall output.



I gave my 244 to my friend's little brother, who was just getting into guitar/music, to encourage him ... Sadly, he more than likely pawned it within a few years to fund his growing substance abuse.

Now I'm back into making music and would love to use it again.

 

[Harry Klippton]

This is not made by tascam, nor does it use tape, nor is it as sexy, but I have done so many recordings on this bad daddy too and I still like it

 

[Alan W]

We all have so much in common it’s crazy.

I’m guessing there’s a “slightly” older group here that predates multi track cassette. No pictures, but I had a 7 inch reel to reel Teac. Just 2 tracks. My high school Theater department had a 4 track, a big Ampex, that I can remember borrowing (finally, as a senior I had enough cred to allow my teachers to break the rules) to try and do some Frodo and the Hobbits (I had never read the books until meeting the drummer, who was more or less the band leader…) demos.

Not to say that I didn’t have a Tascam (or two) in later years. There may even be something still in the darker reaches of my attic.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I’m guessing there’s a “slightly” older group here that predates multi track cassette. No pictures, but I had a 7 inch reel to reel Teac. Just 2 tracks. My high school Theater department had a 4 track, a big Ampex, that I can remember borrowing (finally, as a senior I had enough cred to allow my teachers to break the rules) to try and do some Frodo and the Hobbits (I had never read the books until meeting the drummer, who was more or less the band leader…) demos.

Not to say that I didn’t have a Tascam (or two) in later years. There may even be something still in the darker reaches of my attic.

I'm not old enough but I (now) have a 2 track Akai reel to reel. I used it often until about a year and a half ago. It now needs some service to get back to working condition but I was just saying to a friend that when I get a chance to work on it, I'm going to patch it in to my recording setup

 

[Feral Feline]

I used to have to de-mag and clean a 24-track Studer 2” reel-to-reel, on the night shift, amongst the other 2-track machines. I remember the engineer’s name, but not the studio’s.
Then in the morning I’d have to drive my Dad’s car homeso he wouldn’t be be late for going to work.

Does any co even make 2” tape anymore?