let me be clear about this
this tsr has no more than 20 hours on it - i bought it on ebay - i' havn't used it, even though i bought it 7 months ago ( i have 3 other tape machines) but the guy i bought it from said he hardly used it and i believe him. o.k. now just to be clear about this. When i run the tape for 4 mins, i have to clean the daylights out of the heads and tape path I mean the Q-tips are a dark colored maroon -now your right theres less material left behind after several passes but i cant even record a decent track ( it's muddy and low signal on all tracks) i'm getting frustrated i bought 3 machines on ebay and none of them worked out of the box ( and i paid good money for them)" Ive been in recording studios for 30 years and i bought my first sound on sound machine in "77" and i dont ever remember this kind of
problem im gonna spend more time cleaning than recording
thanks
tommy