bachelorb
Cowboy Chord Virtuoso
Well, the ol Covid-19 has chased me into the house. My wife is on immuno-suppresents, so we are not going anywhere.....and I have a couple of projects in the room I would like to get to.
1. A Tascam 244 Portastudio and a
2. Tascam 134 Syncaset
First one up? the 244.
Backstory- Back when my wife and I were traveling around the country. I got a little crazy on eBay and bought a couple of 244's. I was going for the take two and make one theme. I fixed up the ratty looking one without having to take any components off the good looking one. I sold the ratty looking one and was about to set to the task of fixing the nice looking one up when a fella on here who calls himself RFR introduced me to the concept of portable rack mount systems.... mind and budget blown........
The 244 got shelved.....and still would be except.
We had to get off the road when my wife fell ill.... dialysis, a new house, and a new kidney later, she is ready to go again. Since we bought the house, I had room for more stuff....big stuff... (including my Tascam 312 board). Now I'm thinking about downsizing again. The 244 would be about right, plus I could keep some of my other fun stuff (reverb, compressor, etc) <end of backstory>
I'm going to document all this to hopefully help some people in the future, and to ask for help along the way.
So today I started to look at the 244. These are the problems that I can find right now.
1. BUSS L/TRK 1 Meter doesn't work
2. Through the headphones, I hear a hum that goes away when I touch the back panel. I hooked monitors to the line out and do not have the hum problem.
3. Nothing is recording to the tape player (this may be me though, its been probably 4 years since I fiddled with a 244 and so far I've only been flippin switches). I'm going to read the manual this afternoon.
4. Noisy Tape Deck
.....soooooooo..... here we go.........
1. A Tascam 244 Portastudio and a
2. Tascam 134 Syncaset
First one up? the 244.
Backstory- Back when my wife and I were traveling around the country. I got a little crazy on eBay and bought a couple of 244's. I was going for the take two and make one theme. I fixed up the ratty looking one without having to take any components off the good looking one. I sold the ratty looking one and was about to set to the task of fixing the nice looking one up when a fella on here who calls himself RFR introduced me to the concept of portable rack mount systems.... mind and budget blown........
The 244 got shelved.....and still would be except.
We had to get off the road when my wife fell ill.... dialysis, a new house, and a new kidney later, she is ready to go again. Since we bought the house, I had room for more stuff....big stuff... (including my Tascam 312 board). Now I'm thinking about downsizing again. The 244 would be about right, plus I could keep some of my other fun stuff (reverb, compressor, etc) <end of backstory>
I'm going to document all this to hopefully help some people in the future, and to ask for help along the way.
So today I started to look at the 244. These are the problems that I can find right now.
1. BUSS L/TRK 1 Meter doesn't work
2. Through the headphones, I hear a hum that goes away when I touch the back panel. I hooked monitors to the line out and do not have the hum problem.
3. Nothing is recording to the tape player (this may be me though, its been probably 4 years since I fiddled with a 244 and so far I've only been flippin switches). I'm going to read the manual this afternoon.
4. Noisy Tape Deck
.....soooooooo..... here we go.........
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