Yeah, Jamie did tell me it had no A/D in it, but the whole reason I said that was because when a newbie to all of this "owning your own rig" he should have helped out better. My recordings come out bad because I did just like he said, "run M1 at 5-6". So I did. I call another taper, obviously knows to run differently, and he said run at 9-10. I did this and just 2 weeks ago, I made a respectible tape. But w/ V3 tapes can only get better from here!