leddy
Well-known member
Hi folks.
I noticed on my Tascam 22 on very quiet passages that I was hearing something that sounds like static at pretty low frequencies. Like moving around in a leather chair kind of noise. Pretty far in the background, but audible enough to annoy me.
I tested a couple of things:
I plugged in headphones and cranked the volume. With no tape loaded (and holding up the tension arm) I hit play and also record and listened. No noise.
Then I loaded a tape that I did not record on that machine (an MRL test tape). Cranked the volume; no noise.
Loaded another tape. With nothing coming in the line-in, I hit record. There's the noise.
So it appears it's coming from my machine during record.
Any ideas? Tomorrow I will clean & demag, etc, though I do that fairly often so I doubt that's the issue.
Thanks.
I noticed on my Tascam 22 on very quiet passages that I was hearing something that sounds like static at pretty low frequencies. Like moving around in a leather chair kind of noise. Pretty far in the background, but audible enough to annoy me.
I tested a couple of things:
I plugged in headphones and cranked the volume. With no tape loaded (and holding up the tension arm) I hit play and also record and listened. No noise.
Then I loaded a tape that I did not record on that machine (an MRL test tape). Cranked the volume; no noise.
Loaded another tape. With nothing coming in the line-in, I hit record. There's the noise.
So it appears it's coming from my machine during record.
Any ideas? Tomorrow I will clean & demag, etc, though I do that fairly often so I doubt that's the issue.
Thanks.