I picked and '82 JH24 up locally, ostensibly to do transfers, but I like it enough, I may try to do some recording on it.
It's like, 95% perfect, but it has an annoying habit it seems to have developed after I had it for a few days.
I'm not a tape machine tech. Nor do I know any local to me "Cinci". I'm techie enough to work on my own guitar amps and do all my own guitar setups, wiring, neck adjustments, and so forth, and I manage to keep most of my reel to reel and cassette decks running. And I soldered up all six harnesses to get signal in and out of this thing. Whew.
I was fortunate enough to get the big, 3-ring binderized manual and a "Standard Tape Labs" 15IPS calibration, and even has the logic annunciator board with it (which was actually lost inside the cabinet). Anyway, on to the problem. Again, after having it for about a week getting to know it, calibrating for playback, etc., what it's started to do is that when I hit play, the light on the switch lights up, but the tape doesn't move - UNTIL, and this took me some time to figure out - I rock the feed reel clockwise just a smidge, essentially I guess putting a little more tension on the tape.
This seems like something that should be an easy adjustment somewhere. On the logic annunciator board, the light showing "play" was pressed lights up, but the two showing signal to the left and right motors don't light up, until I rock that left reel.
I've been trying to work out what it is I'm affecting when I do that, because it seems like the answer is in there, somewhere.
Again, I have the manual, but the troubleshooting basically says stuff like, "Check IC___". Yeah. No.
Aside from this, the machine plays and records beautifully.
This seems like something that would be pretty common to these machines, so I'm hoping someone else has run into it and can point me in the right direction. I can see that the machine has had lots of maintenance over the years. The dreaded red IC sockets I've read about have been replaced, and I see lots of "newer than '82" caps and IC's in the thing. I got it from the second owner, who himself had it for over thirty years, and both this machine and his studio in general look like he generally too care of his gear.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
It's like, 95% perfect, but it has an annoying habit it seems to have developed after I had it for a few days.
I'm not a tape machine tech. Nor do I know any local to me "Cinci". I'm techie enough to work on my own guitar amps and do all my own guitar setups, wiring, neck adjustments, and so forth, and I manage to keep most of my reel to reel and cassette decks running. And I soldered up all six harnesses to get signal in and out of this thing. Whew.
I was fortunate enough to get the big, 3-ring binderized manual and a "Standard Tape Labs" 15IPS calibration, and even has the logic annunciator board with it (which was actually lost inside the cabinet). Anyway, on to the problem. Again, after having it for about a week getting to know it, calibrating for playback, etc., what it's started to do is that when I hit play, the light on the switch lights up, but the tape doesn't move - UNTIL, and this took me some time to figure out - I rock the feed reel clockwise just a smidge, essentially I guess putting a little more tension on the tape.
This seems like something that should be an easy adjustment somewhere. On the logic annunciator board, the light showing "play" was pressed lights up, but the two showing signal to the left and right motors don't light up, until I rock that left reel.
I've been trying to work out what it is I'm affecting when I do that, because it seems like the answer is in there, somewhere.
Again, I have the manual, but the troubleshooting basically says stuff like, "Check IC___". Yeah. No.
Aside from this, the machine plays and records beautifully.
This seems like something that would be pretty common to these machines, so I'm hoping someone else has run into it and can point me in the right direction. I can see that the machine has had lots of maintenance over the years. The dreaded red IC sockets I've read about have been replaced, and I see lots of "newer than '82" caps and IC's in the thing. I got it from the second owner, who himself had it for over thirty years, and both this machine and his studio in general look like he generally too care of his gear.
Thanks in advance,
Sean