Hi all,
I'm having an issue when recording sound from an old portable National solid state 401s reel-to-reel tape recorder. I'm a noob so hoping this is some obvious and easy solve!
I can record from the tape into Audacity for several seconds, sometimes a minute or more before a loud bassy warbly hum comes in suddenly making the recording barely audible. Sometimes it's really really loud and bassy, other times it's like an odd warbly underwater sound which takes over the audio on the tape. I can rewind the tape and re-record a section and get a different result every time. It's not the tape itself, because when I listen through the built in speaker on the tape unit it sounds fine.
FYI I'm using an old Behringer U-control device I had lying around which has stereo ins and running from the tape player's 3.5mm external speaker output. The sound is bad but I'm just messing around.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm having an issue when recording sound from an old portable National solid state 401s reel-to-reel tape recorder. I'm a noob so hoping this is some obvious and easy solve!
I can record from the tape into Audacity for several seconds, sometimes a minute or more before a loud bassy warbly hum comes in suddenly making the recording barely audible. Sometimes it's really really loud and bassy, other times it's like an odd warbly underwater sound which takes over the audio on the tape. I can rewind the tape and re-record a section and get a different result every time. It's not the tape itself, because when I listen through the built in speaker on the tape unit it sounds fine.
FYI I'm using an old Behringer U-control device I had lying around which has stereo ins and running from the tape player's 3.5mm external speaker output. The sound is bad but I'm just messing around.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!