The Best Ever Tascam 4-Track

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The Best Ever Tascam 4-Track?


The 40-4 was the best TASCAM 4 track. I had one and it lasted all of 8 weeks until I got my 80-8. But, it was a great 8 weeks (back in 1979)
 
MCI2424 said:
The Best Ever Tascam 4-Track?


The 40-4 was the best TASCAM 4 track. I had one and it lasted all of 8 weeks until I got my 80-8. But, it was a great 8 weeks (back in 1979)
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The OP was asking about cassette 4-tracks. The 40-4 is a R2R isn't it?
 
tried cleaning? my 1st track also sounded muddy and strange last week...after cleaning it's perfect asgain:eek:

DelPhenda said:
Hi,

I bought a 488 MKII on Ebay for a song. It looks great and appears to function very well...except for one major problem: Track 1 does not produce any decent recording. All I get from Track 1, in the headphones upon playback, is a very crackly nasty version of my recording; totally unusable. The rest of the Tracks appear to function normally.

I am very satisfied with the Ebay seller as he was very clear that it was "sold as is" and was very open to communications via email. It was also a mere $180 including mail! It is still a brilliant piece of equipment but rather than an 8 Track, it is currently a 7 Track. Does anyone have a clue what might be wrong? Is this a common problem? Does anyone know of any Tascam repair techies in the Boston Massachusetts area?

Thanks a bunch...this homerecording.com has already been extremely useful to me. I hope that, one day, I will be able to reciprocate.

Del Phenda
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488 Mkii

Thank you for responding Pehjot,

I have cleaned the heads many times and inspected them as well. They appear to be perfectly clean and free of scratches, dents, wear and misalignments.

Since posting my question, I have spoken with an excellent Tascam engineer (at Aztech Electronics, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts), who talked me through the obvious possible problems, as mentioned above.

I have now left the machine in his workshop. He says that if the problem is with the heads then the machine is not worth fixing, as the heads cost several hundred dollars to replace.

Do you or anyone know where I can get "refurbished" heads? Just in case. It might be good if we could find refurbished parts anyway, for anyone's problematic machines.

Del
 
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