No apology needed - it was really a left-handed compliment. I have rarely felt gear-envy recnetly until I looked at your site! But I really don't need a tape deck that weighs as much as I do! ;-) There is a quality of scale, too - SoundSoap 2 fills my simple needs and budget. Algorithmix looks amazing. Have you compared it with Cedar? http://algorithmix.com/en/pro_products.htm Lou On Sep 8, 2005, at 6:08 AM, Richard L. Hess wrote: > At 02:15 AM 9/8/2005, you wrote: >> I'd hardly call your setup "basic" Richard! > > Sorry, Lou, I was thinking in terms of picking and choosing which is > why I said "ideas." My setup is really very basic - there's just a lot > of it. Each machine goes to the jackfield. Each noise processor goes > to the jackfield. The A-D/D-As go to the jackfield. Nothing is > normalled. > > Your setup sounds good - but, as you say, you and I both bring many > years of experience to using analog tape. > > Other than the APR-16, the most expensive item in my collection is the > Algorithmix NoiseFree Pro (at least at my cost). > > >> I have a PR-99, a Teac quarter track, and a Pioneer four track, >> Protools 002R LE, and a couple of Masterlinks. Pretty basic. >> >> The thing that makes it profeessional is 35 years of analog work with >> tape. THAT is priceless...