Recent content by gwargantua

Thanks for all the replys. I haven't been able to check this thread for a while. They started blocking this site where I work, along with ALL "music" sites. How nice... I'm going to have a look at the relays this weekend. The day after I got the waivering to go a away, by leaving it on all...

I managed to find a thread that recomended leaving the unit on over night to help free some potentially sticky relays. I did so and the waivering dissappeared on all the affected tracks. However, channel 5 still has no signal on the repro output. I'm plan to pull the card and look at the...

My Tascam 38 is exhibiting the following behavior: I recorded a tone to all of the first 4 tracks in "sync" mode. I played the tracks back in "sync" mode and channels 1 and 3 fade in and out from time to time. When I switch to "repro" mode, all 4 channels have steady signal. I repeated the...

There are also dbx-150 2-channel units that work with the 38, etc. You'd need 4 of them. That's what I have for my 38. I'm not sure if they are any better or worse than the dx-4d units though.

I haven't heard a Nomad, but I don't doubt they sound great. Do they really sound much better than HiMD PCM without compression (16bit/44.1khz)? What conditions, material, and (other) equipment did you use to make the comparison? I'm more interested in a technical comparison as opposed to...

"...Minidisc is in its death throes. Im glad to see it die. Expensive media, compression, and even with HI-MD you still have to switch media... HD recorders and flash recorders are stomping the life out of MD. In my opinion, something like the Nomad Jukebox 3 or even the Maudio microtracker is...

Does anyone know if there is a stand alone box for single ended noise reduction that could be used effectively in combination with a 2-track reel-to-reel? Note, this would not be a DBX box/system, which must also be un-encoded to work correctly. I was thinking more like a Dolby C stand alone...

Thanks, I hope so too. I guess anything is possible, I did mix up RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 is "striping" and RAID 1 is "mirroring". I don't believe mirrored RAID is writes data twice persay. Each hard drive is on its own bus/channel under the RAID controller, which appears as a single hard...

I didn't get to the hardware store to find washers, but I couldn't wait and elected to reassemble the unit anyway. Before doing so, I checked the tension arm spring and found it was still attached. I cleaned the area where it pivots which had some dust or slight corrosion caked around it and...

Seems to be solved...for now I don't think it has anything to do with RAID. As I stated in the original post, I had exactly the same problems in another set up and it was non-RAID. Also note, there are 2 flavors of RAID, RAID0 and RAID1. RAID 0 is mirroring, or placing exactly the same data...

Thank you very much for ALL of your comments and advice. Last night I disassembled my 38 and indeed found bad rubber washers on both the brake and head/load solenoids. The latter was in the worst condition and no longer even resembled a washer, just ring of sticky black goo. I removed the...

Got a Univox 50W amp, all sold state, 12" speaker, reverb and tremlo from the Goodwill. Needed new fuse holder, power cord, pots cleaned, knobs. Sounds pretty good with a decent preamp/pedal in front of it. Not bad for $10.

I've been working on my Tascam 38 for a while now attempting to get it working. I bought it a couple years ago and had it shipped to me. However it's only been in recent months that I"ve got around to actually testing/working on it. I've been having some problems but I've been able to repair...

I did the same thing with a bunch of important (to me) recordings I had on cassettes. Dubbed them down to mini disc for safe keeping, easy as pie and no more worries about them "getting eaten". Mini disc still has a rabid following, though mostly abroad, mostly because people who jumped on...

I've been around and around with this same problem for a long time now. It seems to go away, then it's back. I dub mini disc recordings from an entire disc in one pass using N-track and the 24/96. I continually get hicups or little bits of missing sound in the recordings. Not the "clicks"...