Hi all,
I'm having a problem with tape speed being too fast from my Tascam 688 portastudio.
In this video, the first part shows the music how it's supposed to sound (From my digital workstation), and the second part shows how it sounds from the tape. It's about 2x faster.
You can see me fiddling around with the pitch control to show the difference, and I kept the tape door open so you can see how the heads are working. When I recorded the track, I did not manipulate the pitch control or speed in any way.
I tried other recorded tapes as well, and all had the same speed problem (about 2x fast). They are all Maxell XLII tapes.
As a background to what lead up to this: When I first recorded this track (last summer), all was fine with the speed. Now, after a long winter of disuse, I decided I wanted to start using the portastudio again and noticed this speed issue.
As a background on the machine itself, I purchased it last summer from a very good seller who took care of it immaculately, it was barely used and in like new condition, still had the box and all. It's worked perfectly up till now.
I've read on some forums that it might be a circuit issue, or a capstan issue, but I would truly appreciate some specific insight from anyone on this case, and what I should do to fix it!
I admit I am relatively new to this, so I'd really hope its just some dumb oversight on my part! (I am willing to take more videos or photos to show anyone to get a better idea of what is going on.)
Sincerely,
GAC
I'm having a problem with tape speed being too fast from my Tascam 688 portastudio.
In this video, the first part shows the music how it's supposed to sound (From my digital workstation), and the second part shows how it sounds from the tape. It's about 2x faster.
You can see me fiddling around with the pitch control to show the difference, and I kept the tape door open so you can see how the heads are working. When I recorded the track, I did not manipulate the pitch control or speed in any way.
I tried other recorded tapes as well, and all had the same speed problem (about 2x fast). They are all Maxell XLII tapes.
As a background to what lead up to this: When I first recorded this track (last summer), all was fine with the speed. Now, after a long winter of disuse, I decided I wanted to start using the portastudio again and noticed this speed issue.
As a background on the machine itself, I purchased it last summer from a very good seller who took care of it immaculately, it was barely used and in like new condition, still had the box and all. It's worked perfectly up till now.
I've read on some forums that it might be a circuit issue, or a capstan issue, but I would truly appreciate some specific insight from anyone on this case, and what I should do to fix it!
I admit I am relatively new to this, so I'd really hope its just some dumb oversight on my part! (I am willing to take more videos or photos to show anyone to get a better idea of what is going on.)
Sincerely,
GAC