If you contact me concerning this item, please make it clear in your email that you are not a scammer.
Thanks in advance.
I will not ship.
Here we have an extremely cool item straight from the eighties.
The Fostex 250 was (along with the TEAC 144) one of the very first cassette 4-track machines on the market.
Check out online videos of you want to learn abut the specific features.
Be warned: this is unit is not going to give you a high-fidelity recording! Think "cassette tape warmth" with all the good and bad that this phrase entails.
As for this particular unit, it is in good shape.
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considering that it was damaged when I received it.
(Incorrectly packed when shipped, which resulted in many fractures in the interior plastic sporting structure.
) I did thorough repairs, replaced belt (pinch roller is still good), and did very basic alignment on levels for input, meters, tape output, tape record.
All controls work.
Cool analog meters all light up and work great.
All original buttons, knobs, etc.
Why so cheap? Two reasons: (1) The unit really was damaged pretty bad on the inside when I got it, with most of the plastic supports having been shattered in transit.
I had to glue all the little pieces together.
Although it seems sturdy enough now, I recommend you be gentle with this thing.
(2) Although they work almost all the time, the switches and relays on this unit have been known to require a little help every so often.
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g.
, the meter select switch (recorder/mixer) sometimes needs to be flipped back and forth a couple of times before all the meters respond; also, 2-3 times there was an apparent feedback loop between channels, which I fixed simply by turning the power off and on again.
Check out two songs I recorded on this exact unit:
https://soundcloud.
com/user-464884099/sister-is-wise-demo
https://soundcloud.
com/user-464884099/love-is-sleeping-demo
I will include a nice, unopened, type II cassette and photocopy of the manual.
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