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It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It works! Cool.
I got the idler tire in the mail today. Intalled and put in a tape......first off, about the tapes I have. The guy I got the machine from said he had a bunch of tapes. New and used. When I went to pick up the Akai, he only had one used one on hand. He just moved into his place and had boxes from floor to ceiling all over his basement. He said the rest of them are buried away and said he will contact me when he finds them.
The tape he gave me has a song on it he recorded back in '97 with a female singer.
The other tape I got used from ebay for $18. It also has music on it.
So, back to the first press of play. I put in the ebay tape with great excitement. Put on the headphones. Pressed play. And 10 of the LED meters started to dance up and down. The tape transport is functioning real smoothly.
I'm surprised. And I sounds real good. The fun part is I get to mix the song that's on there. It's kind of a soul, R&B type thing with some female vocals.This was recorded at the slower of the two speeds.
The tape I got with the machine has a song with 10 tracks recorded with the faster speed. It sounds great. No real drums or bass though. Those were done with keys. And there is only one song on that tape. So I'm thinking the rest is virgin tape afterwords.
Rewind and FFW aren't the quickest. I also noticed that the tape is still against the record/play head when rewinding. I can hear it slightly in the headphones. Not sure if that is supposed to be like that.
So, I'm thinking the idler tire could be one of the main issues with the notorious transport problems on this machine. The one I have hasn't been used in ages as the guy told me. But with a new small capacitor, idler tire and a fix to a broken section to the cam, this unit is up and running. But I'm am gonna expect other issues in the future.
I haven't tried recording yet. Will try some tests tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
But for now, the rest is just cosmetic. Won't be able to do any calibration that's for sure.
Im guessing these tapes can be easily erased with a bulk eraser.
Here is a picture of the meters in action....
As you can see the faders are down. I didn't have the switch selected to track.
I'm really looking forward to recording a song on this sucker.
It works! Cool.
I got the idler tire in the mail today. Intalled and put in a tape......first off, about the tapes I have. The guy I got the machine from said he had a bunch of tapes. New and used. When I went to pick up the Akai, he only had one used one on hand. He just moved into his place and had boxes from floor to ceiling all over his basement. He said the rest of them are buried away and said he will contact me when he finds them.
The tape he gave me has a song on it he recorded back in '97 with a female singer.
The other tape I got used from ebay for $18. It also has music on it.
So, back to the first press of play. I put in the ebay tape with great excitement. Put on the headphones. Pressed play. And 10 of the LED meters started to dance up and down. The tape transport is functioning real smoothly.
I'm surprised. And I sounds real good. The fun part is I get to mix the song that's on there. It's kind of a soul, R&B type thing with some female vocals.This was recorded at the slower of the two speeds.
The tape I got with the machine has a song with 10 tracks recorded with the faster speed. It sounds great. No real drums or bass though. Those were done with keys. And there is only one song on that tape. So I'm thinking the rest is virgin tape afterwords.
Rewind and FFW aren't the quickest. I also noticed that the tape is still against the record/play head when rewinding. I can hear it slightly in the headphones. Not sure if that is supposed to be like that.
So, I'm thinking the idler tire could be one of the main issues with the notorious transport problems on this machine. The one I have hasn't been used in ages as the guy told me. But with a new small capacitor, idler tire and a fix to a broken section to the cam, this unit is up and running. But I'm am gonna expect other issues in the future.
I haven't tried recording yet. Will try some tests tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
But for now, the rest is just cosmetic. Won't be able to do any calibration that's for sure.
Im guessing these tapes can be easily erased with a bulk eraser.
Here is a picture of the meters in action....
As you can see the faders are down. I didn't have the switch selected to track.
I'm really looking forward to recording a song on this sucker.
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