Ernest Cortez
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I cant believe I just joined this forum... I'm late.
So I got a tascam 388 for 130 and it wasn't working at all. It turns out it needed new fuses and a new belt. Now it powers on, the lights work, it transports and records fine.... sortof. I can hear through the mixer and record with varying success. The mixer sounds perfect in the monitor but everything's super quiet when I listen back. I don't get why that is.
I cleaned the heads already and the problem persisted.
Now I'm thinking maybe I need to degauss it?
And something else just hit me... maybe one of the heads is out of allignment? I really don't know.
I'm relatively new to this. I've fixed up some reel to reels in the past, but this one might be a bit more than I can handle.
Okay this was an essay. Thanks so much to anybody who responds!
So I got a tascam 388 for 130 and it wasn't working at all. It turns out it needed new fuses and a new belt. Now it powers on, the lights work, it transports and records fine.... sortof. I can hear through the mixer and record with varying success. The mixer sounds perfect in the monitor but everything's super quiet when I listen back. I don't get why that is.
I cleaned the heads already and the problem persisted.
Now I'm thinking maybe I need to degauss it?
And something else just hit me... maybe one of the heads is out of allignment? I really don't know.
I'm relatively new to this. I've fixed up some reel to reels in the past, but this one might be a bit more than I can handle.
Okay this was an essay. Thanks so much to anybody who responds!