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I've been looking for a way of measuring w&f without having to buy a meter. It seems a bit tricky but I've just found this link: how to? simple wow/flutter measurement - diyAudio I have just used Audacity to analyse a 1000 Hz tone recorded on my Tascam 244 after fitting a new pinch roller...

Does anyone know what sort of tool I need to open up the inspection cover for the heads and pinch roller? It would be useful to save having to to take the machine apart again. Dr Zee shows a strange tool in his pics which I can't find anywhere...

I just thought I'd post a fairly trivial but interesting thing about the dbx on the 244. A long time ago I modified my machine so I could switch the dbx out on track 1 to use it for tape sync - the dbx made it unreliable I found. A few days ago I found I could no longer record on track 1...

Open up the back and there is a column of 4 cross headed bias trimmers roughly in the centre towards the front. Channel 1 is nearer the front then 2 3 and 4. These are separate from the banks of trimmers to the left and above used for record level playback level and eq. Will post a PIC next...

I am hoping to get an old master tape recorded using Dolby A and I'm told it will sound terrible played back without the proper decoding. I wonder if anyone knows more about this? I have a cassette recorder with Dolby S - maybe a copy of the master made on this machine with NR switched off and...

Please excuse me if this is a silly question but I have been thinking how 3 head machines have a better frequency response because they do not have a compromised record/replay head but have a head designed for optimum record and one for optimum replay. I think I remember that a narrow gap...

I have a '60's Shure Unidyne III I inherited from my brother. He did some pretty decent recordings with it and I had it working ok but recently it is sounding very shrill with hardly any bass response. I wonder if anyone has had a similar problem and knows how to fix it? I've tried it in both...

I bought another 244 from eBay - for spares really, as I need a few control knobs, but I can't resist trying to get it to work. It was in pretty bad shape - the belts and idler tyres had turned to liquid. I have two problems left really - one is that the head stack motor only turns very slowly...

I found out a few days back that the input on channel 3 on one of my 244's isn't working. However much I increase the gain trim there is no sound getting through. Slight increase in hiss though as normal. I took the jumper out of channel 3 and can feed a line signal in and control it with the...

One of the main slider pots on my 244 stopped working a few years back - no crackles or warning, just no effect and no sound on remix or recording. The same has happened to another one - so only 2 of them work. Any ideas how to fix this? I've tried cleaning them and no effect. I'm not used to...

I have just bought another 244 from eBay which has I seem to have got working pretty well, but the control buttons have broken off and just lie loose. It is useable but a bit awkward - especially operating the cassette door. Does anyone know how to fix these? It would be no good glueing them to...

I have just bought another 244 from eBay which has I seem to have got working pretty well, but the control buttons have broken off and just lie loose. It is useable but a bit awkward - especially operating the cassette door. Does anyone know how to fix these? It would be no good glueing them to...

Please excuse me if this is a silly question or has been covered before but I am at a loss as to how to solve this problem. I have digitised old 4 track recordings I made on my Tascam 244 - recording all 4 tracks from the direct tape output into a 4 channel sound card. I used Cubase and Nuendo...

Does anyone know if the hard drive is a standard replaceable type? Also, its not clear how th level meters are calibrated - anyone know how the segments relate to dB?