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Hi everyone, with the help of Sweetbeats, my 388 is running great! I'm trying to locate an original manual. These seem really hard to find and I'm willing to pay a decent amount for an original. I'm just floating it out to the universe in case you have one or know someone that does. I realize...

Could be...That's a really interesting story. It's also why I'm fascinated with vintage electronics. I think it's great that we can trace all this down and get things working like new. My buddy keeps a decent inventory of caps in stock. We matched everything with original specs except the 25v...

Well Sweetbeats nailed it again! I recapped the power supply card and the 388 is silent. I cranked the apm and there is no noise...zero...none! Thanks for the diagnosis and appreciate your time on this forum. Brian

I'll jump in with a suggestion I haven't seen yet...Mixcraft. It is windows based, fairly inexpensive, easy to use, has great instruments with it and upgrades are cheap. I've been with them since version 5 and they are on version 9 now. Great community of users there too. Good luck!

Quick follow up, I had a noisy eq pot that needed a few more shots of contact cleaner. While i had the bottom off, I did remove the capstan, clean the shaft and used the turbine oil Sweetbeats recommended just as described in this thread. Not only did I clean the shaft and the bore (they didn't...

I hope that's all it takes! I'm in my 50s and was lucky enough to have a dad that was into recording when I was a teenager. He bought a 388 new and in 1985 I was the coolest kid in my circle of band friends. I never got rid of those tapes and have enjoyed hearing all the stuff we recorded over...

Perfect! My buddy with the oscilloscope will be more familiar with this process. I'll forward him your message and we'll get to work on this. I'd like to recap as much as we can get to just to get things back to when it was built and avoid chasing any problems because of a dried out capacitor...

Sweetbeats, that description makes perfect sense. Thank you for the detailed description! I have a buddy that can bring an oscilloscope to check the power supply. If we find find a failure in the DC power supply, is there a fix? or is the best/only option to replace the power supply? I don't...

Hi, I own a 388 and, even though my capstan is not squealing, I appreciate learning the proper way to remove, clean and lubricate this part of the machine. Everyone's patience (nod to Sweetbeats) is greatly appreciated while helping babecityrecords work through this. I'm about to order the oil...

Hi all, first time asking a question here. I've recently acquired a 388 and have been going through the deck cleaning and demagnetizing heads, cleaning pots and switches etc. I have what seems to be an intermittent hum that sounds similar to a ground loop hum. It gets louder with raising the...