How to Control the Connector Lines When Recording from CD to Reel to Reel

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"On behalf of Expert Village, Kurt Glaser, KGB Studios, Seattle. Let's continue now with our sessions on "How to use a Two Track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder". Okay, and as you notice right here, you do have some control right here on the line. These are the line connectors, and you don't want to get it into the red which is right in this area, right where my fingernail is. So I keep the volumes consistent and a little bit below the red. Now the cool thing about tape is that you can actually distort the tape a little bit and it actually is okay with that. So you can actually go up into the red portions right over in here, without damaging the tape. Granted, you've got the headphones, so you're monitoring the headphones here, and you're listening to the signal using your headphones. So that you've got now the recording going, and at this point all you do is you make sure you've got your buttons going, you've got your buttons right here for the record for your two track machine. Okay, now that we've got all of these connected, we are monitoring with our headphones, we have the adjustments set down here, we have needle deflection, we have this thing playing just fine. All at this point now, you just push the "record", these two will light up, you push this down, we're ready to go. You cue your thing, you start the playing process, and you kick the record in and off you go to record monitoring with your headphones, and listen to the actual ending of the tape or the ending of the song off the CD, or if you want to record through the whole CD you just let it run. Now a note about the recording process. It's going to produce a little bit of tape noise on here, simply because that's the nature of the beast, and you'll hear that when you listen to the playback. But you're essentially recording directly off of here, using an analog type of recording. So that's how you actually record. Here, let's try another way of recording next."