hansgauffin
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Hi there, just recently bought a Tascam 388 for 350$.
The overall cosmetics is really good but there´s a few things that bothering me. First of all, channel 8 seems quite dead.
I tried to put my microphone to channel 1 and reassign it to all the channels and activates the rec buttons for channel 1-8 and puts the pan controls to center position, i talked in the mic. and looked at the VU-meters, all the channel showed the same input levels except channel 8 that did nt move at all, or just slightly.
I have managed anyway to get signal to the channel but at high levels the sound is distorted, and I really have to push the rec. levels at maximum to even get there..
Is there somethong I can do about it??
Track 3 also distorts when recording to it´s inputs, but you can record tracks on it by using other inputs and reassign them to track 3.
And another problem,,, When I tried the access jacks on of the sockets fell off:
I put the socket away thinking I´d fix it later and went ahead on another channel instead, same thing there, the socket fell off when I plugged the cable into it!! A few minutes later I sat with 6 sockets in my hands, all from the access jacks and one from the input on track 5... I tried to put these things together but I had a really hard time, and did not succeed. Any tips on how this should be done. The inputs works anyway even if loose and put in place together with the cable, but I have to fix it sometime anyway.
If this is TOO hard to fix, can I buy a patchbay and connect every access snd/rtn from the studio 8 into the patchbay and always have them connected this way. Then I wont worry about them being loose????
Sorry if the questions is kind of stupid, but I am not really technical and also new to analog recording, but what the hack, if you don´t ask then you don´t learn..
Have a nice day, and thanx for the quick responses
The overall cosmetics is really good but there´s a few things that bothering me. First of all, channel 8 seems quite dead.
I tried to put my microphone to channel 1 and reassign it to all the channels and activates the rec buttons for channel 1-8 and puts the pan controls to center position, i talked in the mic. and looked at the VU-meters, all the channel showed the same input levels except channel 8 that did nt move at all, or just slightly.
I have managed anyway to get signal to the channel but at high levels the sound is distorted, and I really have to push the rec. levels at maximum to even get there..
Is there somethong I can do about it??
Track 3 also distorts when recording to it´s inputs, but you can record tracks on it by using other inputs and reassign them to track 3.
And another problem,,, When I tried the access jacks on of the sockets fell off:
I put the socket away thinking I´d fix it later and went ahead on another channel instead, same thing there, the socket fell off when I plugged the cable into it!! A few minutes later I sat with 6 sockets in my hands, all from the access jacks and one from the input on track 5... I tried to put these things together but I had a really hard time, and did not succeed. Any tips on how this should be done. The inputs works anyway even if loose and put in place together with the cable, but I have to fix it sometime anyway.
If this is TOO hard to fix, can I buy a patchbay and connect every access snd/rtn from the studio 8 into the patchbay and always have them connected this way. Then I wont worry about them being loose????
Sorry if the questions is kind of stupid, but I am not really technical and also new to analog recording, but what the hack, if you don´t ask then you don´t learn..
Have a nice day, and thanx for the quick responses