notbillcosby
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After recording a bunch of folks on my 388, I finally convinced a skuddy bar-punk band to record directly to cassette, through my Toft and onto the 238. Yes! It was a blast and a learning experience for sure, but it all sounds pretty cool and gross in the right ways. I DO have an ish'....
It buzzes on playback. If I put the tape in my 488 there's no buzz, so I know it's my setup and not signal that was printed to tape. It's a buzzy buzz, not a hissy buzz. It sounds like a grounding issue of some sort. When I mute channels, it gets quieter as each channel disappears. I can get the buzz to mostly quit if i unplug the cables from the line-ins a little bit, but this is a janky way of doing it that seems like it doesn't even ENTIRELY fix it, and if the cable is just barely in the wrong spot i get weirdo signal loss or nothing at all. More than that, I just want to FIX it so I don't have to half-ass my setup.
The outs of the 238 are going through an RCA-to-1/4" (unbalanced totally) snake that runs into a patch bay, normaled to the line-ins on my Toft. I've tried putting an RCA adapter on the end of a balanced cable to see if that made any difference, but it didn't. I've tried plugging the 238 into the same power conditioner that the Toft is on, and that also made no difference. The buzz ONLY happens when playing back- if the tape is stopped my speakers are silent.
I know there's a billion variables that this could probably be, but I hoped someone could go, "Oh, duh, the Toft inputs will always buzz with a cassette multitracker, you stooge." or something. I'd love to make it so the only extra crap noise coming off of this cassette was tape hiss!
It buzzes on playback. If I put the tape in my 488 there's no buzz, so I know it's my setup and not signal that was printed to tape. It's a buzzy buzz, not a hissy buzz. It sounds like a grounding issue of some sort. When I mute channels, it gets quieter as each channel disappears. I can get the buzz to mostly quit if i unplug the cables from the line-ins a little bit, but this is a janky way of doing it that seems like it doesn't even ENTIRELY fix it, and if the cable is just barely in the wrong spot i get weirdo signal loss or nothing at all. More than that, I just want to FIX it so I don't have to half-ass my setup.
The outs of the 238 are going through an RCA-to-1/4" (unbalanced totally) snake that runs into a patch bay, normaled to the line-ins on my Toft. I've tried putting an RCA adapter on the end of a balanced cable to see if that made any difference, but it didn't. I've tried plugging the 238 into the same power conditioner that the Toft is on, and that also made no difference. The buzz ONLY happens when playing back- if the tape is stopped my speakers are silent.
I know there's a billion variables that this could probably be, but I hoped someone could go, "Oh, duh, the Toft inputs will always buzz with a cassette multitracker, you stooge." or something. I'd love to make it so the only extra crap noise coming off of this cassette was tape hiss!
