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i bought a pinch roller rubber earlier today, i’m intending on replacing the whole rubber. i may take it up to a dude in nothern maryland to take a look. as for the capstan motor, i did that yesterday to see whether or not the motor is still wobbling while playing, and it definitely fought back...

yeah, the pinch roller is very smooth and has little to no grip when i touch it. is it supposed to be slightly sticky? also, i don’t have 99% alcohol (i should probably get some since i’m now in analog world lol), but when i get some and want to clean it, how do you suggest i get inside there...

could this be a problem with the pinch roller? only rubber component i haven’t replaced.

video heres a video of the problem. if you need an inside look, please let me know

nvm….. undid a connection and put another one in the wrong place. put it all back together, worked better than most times for a moment, now it’s just like how it was to begin with. has the pitch pot gone bad?

i was able to replace all the idler tires, put it back together, but now when i press play, it only plays for 3 seconds before the heads go back down and it stops playing. also, the tape count is going backwards extremely extremely slowly.

nope. how it started: loud squeaking, then after a few days eventually it’s first pitch drop. then it was fine after for a day or two, until it started getting noticably wobbly and then an hour or two later the speed just became completely unreliable. i took the back off, replaced the 2 belts...

update 2: replaced 1 of the idler tires, have no clue how you get to the other one. still speed issues.

like to revive this thread to give an update: replaced the 2 most easily accessible belts. the head belt and capstan motor belt. still haven’t gone inside to get the other 2 rubber bands. but when me and my dad went inside, we found that the capstan motor squeaks like hell and also wobbles when...

update: so… about 19-18 hours later this morning, the pitch is working right now. i’m digitizing ASAP but…. maybe there won’t be as much stress in getting this stuff fixed as i thought??

every cassette has the same issue. now tell me, i’m thinking of recording vocals over the slowed down instrumental because the slowest setting is the only setting with consistent pitch, and i recorded it at max speed so it doesn’t seem unbearably slow and pitched down. am i at greater risk of...

update: the pitch control basically doesn’t recognize where i am. i’ll set up highest possible, and it’ll lag, and then after a little electronic twitch sound paired with a mechanical “brrr” from the transport, it goes up in pitch a little. on the lowest speed, it’s consistent. anything above...

also when i look up “tascam 244 pitch variation” or “pitch errors”, i don’t see anyone asking about why their unit is changing the pitch on playback. maybe it’s too obvious what the issue is to warrant a thread LOL

my tascam 244 was working fine for weeks, until i started hearing some squeaking from the transport. it didn’t effect anything for another several weeks, until very recently while doing a take of vocals, the pitch just completely dropped and went wuhhhhhh. i was freaked the eff out, and put in a...

essentially. i’m using it as the final place that these tracks will live on. i don’t care about individually isolating anything after it’s onto the computer, all the mixing is being done on the 244. basically, the computer is a mirror. i want reflect the mix on the 244 to the computer, and...

hey all. i’m just about done with my tape project, and i really really appreciate the stereo image of having 2 guitars and a bounced bass and drum track all in different places. but i really really want double tracked vocals, which i just can’t with only 1 remaining track. am i able to fill up...

and here’s actually the raw tape (imagine if the recording was in “cue” mode as opposed to remix mode) audio of that demo and you can hear what the mixer has done to the recording. raw tape

hey all. i’m piecing together what things are gonna look like once i begin the “buying” part of my reel-to-reel set up. i want a tascam 38 reel to reel, and that is decided. but mixer wise, i’m wondering if i want to wait out for an affordable m30, m35, or teac model 5, or if i should look into...

you give very detailed responses that not only answer my questions but direct me towards better things that could suit my needs. i wanna thank you for that because it’s pretty obvious that i’m a newbie at this stuff so someone like you really helps me a lot. with the desk: HA i’d like to see...

i was looking at eventually having both the m-30 and fostex a8 at my disposal. i’m pretty sure the fostex needs a desk. i’ve heard songs made by those 2 machines paired together and it sounds noticeably better than the same artist using a 244 on the same record, it had more fidelity and of...