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Thanks for all the replys. I haven't been able to check this thread for a while. They started blocking this site where I work, along with ALL "music" sites. How nice... I'm going to have a look at the relays this weekend. The day after I got the waivering to go a away, by leaving it on all...

I managed to find a thread that recomended leaving the unit on over night to help free some potentially sticky relays. I did so and the waivering dissappeared on all the affected tracks. However, channel 5 still has no signal on the repro output. I'm plan to pull the card and look at the...

My Tascam 38 is exhibiting the following behavior: I recorded a tone to all of the first 4 tracks in "sync" mode. I played the tracks back in "sync" mode and channels 1 and 3 fade in and out from time to time. When I switch to "repro" mode, all 4 channels have steady signal. I repeated the...

There are also dbx-150 2-channel units that work with the 38, etc. You'd need 4 of them. That's what I have for my 38. I'm not sure if they are any better or worse than the dx-4d units though.

I haven't heard a Nomad, but I don't doubt they sound great. Do they really sound much better than HiMD PCM without compression (16bit/44.1khz)? What conditions, material, and (other) equipment did you use to make the comparison? I'm more interested in a technical comparison as opposed to...

"...Minidisc is in its death throes. Im glad to see it die. Expensive media, compression, and even with HI-MD you still have to switch media... HD recorders and flash recorders are stomping the life out of MD. In my opinion, something like the Nomad Jukebox 3 or even the Maudio microtracker is...

Does anyone know if there is a stand alone box for single ended noise reduction that could be used effectively in combination with a 2-track reel-to-reel? Note, this would not be a DBX box/system, which must also be un-encoded to work correctly. I was thinking more like a Dolby C stand alone...

Thanks, I hope so too. I guess anything is possible, I did mix up RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 is "striping" and RAID 1 is "mirroring". I don't believe mirrored RAID is writes data twice persay. Each hard drive is on its own bus/channel under the RAID controller, which appears as a single hard...

I didn't get to the hardware store to find washers, but I couldn't wait and elected to reassemble the unit anyway. Before doing so, I checked the tension arm spring and found it was still attached. I cleaned the area where it pivots which had some dust or slight corrosion caked around it and...

Seems to be solved...for now I don't think it has anything to do with RAID. As I stated in the original post, I had exactly the same problems in another set up and it was non-RAID. Also note, there are 2 flavors of RAID, RAID0 and RAID1. RAID 0 is mirroring, or placing exactly the same data...

Thank you very much for ALL of your comments and advice. Last night I disassembled my 38 and indeed found bad rubber washers on both the brake and head/load solenoids. The latter was in the worst condition and no longer even resembled a washer, just ring of sticky black goo. I removed the...

Got a Univox 50W amp, all sold state, 12" speaker, reverb and tremlo from the Goodwill. Needed new fuse holder, power cord, pots cleaned, knobs. Sounds pretty good with a decent preamp/pedal in front of it. Not bad for $10.

I've been working on my Tascam 38 for a while now attempting to get it working. I bought it a couple years ago and had it shipped to me. However it's only been in recent months that I"ve got around to actually testing/working on it. I've been having some problems but I've been able to repair...

I did the same thing with a bunch of important (to me) recordings I had on cassettes. Dubbed them down to mini disc for safe keeping, easy as pie and no more worries about them "getting eaten". Mini disc still has a rabid following, though mostly abroad, mostly because people who jumped on...

I've been around and around with this same problem for a long time now. It seems to go away, then it's back. I dub mini disc recordings from an entire disc in one pass using N-track and the 24/96. I continually get hicups or little bits of missing sound in the recordings. Not the "clicks"...

I think mini disk should be thought of as a replacement for cassette tape. It has all the same advantages and disadvantages relative to respective eras of their predominence. When the format was introduced, cassettes were still the consumer level recording media of choice. If you've owned and...

It's a great way to make a home-brew reverb effect. Run an effects send to an amp feeding a single speaker. Place the speaker in the bathroom somewhere and mic it from a fair distance. Bamo- reverb "effect". All kinds of possible variations using speaker and mic type/placement, volume, eq...

After doing lots of research on this subject I use S-721H. This IS the stuff to use for cleaning heads, transport, pinch rollers etc.: http://www.usrecordingmedia.com/profs7headgu.html

I'm finally getting to play with the Tascam 38 I bought over 2 years ago, the let sit...long story...wife...kids...no time...sigh...but I digress. I've just hooked it up and it's having a few "issues". Hoping someone can at least get me pointed in the right direction. Main problem is that...