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My pre only has one pair of tape outputs, does anyone know if there is anything available to add more outputs, like an add on. Thanks.
Regards,
Mike.
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Years ago, I bought one of these for a similar reason. Never could figure out how to use it. LOL
Or, if you're handy with basic woodworking and soldering, you could build your own patch bay, like I did back in the day. Get a bunch of RCA phono female surface jacks, and have at it. I'd post a pic of the one I built, but it's in a box under four other boxes.
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I use my tape out from a preamp for a headphone amp. If i change amps or preamps, i do it by hand. It takes a minute.
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
This is probably slumming too much for you, but I have been using one of these Radio Shack Tape Control Centers for years with my two Nakamichi decks. It will handle three tape decks, and allows copying from any one to any of the others. I like it for copying tapes because the signal goes from one deck to the other without going through the amp. My amp actually has two tape loops, but I prefer using this little box
Well made unit that might do the trick. Google db Systems, click on "Accessories."
Edits: 03/24/15
They have been making them for many decades. You could probably find one used for cheap.
Dave
In all these years I've never seen a used one advertised. Maybe because the "new" price hasn't changed in a long time, if ever.
DBX used to make exactly what you are looking for. I have seen them for sale on EBay.
run it in reverse
http://www.decware.com/newsite/ZSB.html
One needs to ask: What are you doing with all those tape outs?
Tape outputs aren't generally designed to drive much of a load, so it's worth asking.
Headphone amp/RR/and cassette deck.
Regards,
Mike.
A device that is not powered will cause distortion unless you have a buffered output for each output.
Do you need outputs? Or just inputs?
You could use an input selector in reverse which will avoid the distortion issue as only one device will be hooked up at a time.
A DBX200x should be looked into as well.
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Regards,
Mike.
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Tape input expanders have both multiple tape out and in and usually have dubbing switches to copy from one to another. They are more complex than simple input switchers of course. No can do (properly) with y adapters.
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Try a pair of these before you do anything fancier.
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
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Regards,
Mike.
Sounds like you might need to build - or possibly find at a Pro/Musician shop, a patch panel-
Happy Listening
..yea, I was looking at patchbay panels, it's nothing more than soldering the RCA input to the 4 outputs.
Regards,
Mike.
Again, before I sprung for a new piece of electronics, I'd give adaptors a shot. They don't cost very much. If you bought 2 wire y splitters, and put one of the Audioquest units I linked to above at the end of each wire, you'd have connectivity for 4 tape decks at a cost of around a hundred bucks. Get them from Monoprice instead of Audioquest and they'd be even cheaper.
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
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