Hi everyone !
I just purchased a Tascam 688 midistudio cassette multitrack recorder (used) and unpacked it today and played around, I only have beginner knowledge of this sort of signal routing so I mostly stuck to the manual to test everything out and had some trouble getting the machine to engage the tape to record or play for some reason, was wondering if anyone has any idea why this might be the case ?
I put in a 90-minute high bias tape (I know you're supposed to use shorter ones but I was just testing it out !) and tried hitting play and then hitting play & record but both times the tape heads engaged the tape and then immediately disengaged. Fast-forward and Rewind seemed to work. Anyone had any experience with this happening ?
For reference, the tape cover is actually missing off the unit, not sure if this is connected but seems possible ?
Thank you guys so much for any help you can give, I'm very excited to see if I can get this thing running ! Hope everyone is having a good week. : - )
I just purchased a Tascam 688 midistudio cassette multitrack recorder (used) and unpacked it today and played around, I only have beginner knowledge of this sort of signal routing so I mostly stuck to the manual to test everything out and had some trouble getting the machine to engage the tape to record or play for some reason, was wondering if anyone has any idea why this might be the case ?
I put in a 90-minute high bias tape (I know you're supposed to use shorter ones but I was just testing it out !) and tried hitting play and then hitting play & record but both times the tape heads engaged the tape and then immediately disengaged. Fast-forward and Rewind seemed to work. Anyone had any experience with this happening ?
For reference, the tape cover is actually missing off the unit, not sure if this is connected but seems possible ?
Thank you guys so much for any help you can give, I'm very excited to see if I can get this thing running ! Hope everyone is having a good week. : - )