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"Art for art's sake"- Lennon was a POS.

Tape tensions not being set correctly- with a Tentelometer would cause tape slack. How much offset are you talking about? Check out the MS-16 manual.The Tentelometer is called the "Tension Analizer. "

Most VOM type meters- most Flukes included- will not respond accurately above 100HZ, and also most will not read true RMS like a analog VTVM. I send a PM about the 85-16 manual. I have a original. The Capstan PLL was a PITA to troubleshoot.

Is that 10K the Control room pot? I will need pictures of the faders and knobs you need. I have a two big coffee cans full of fader knobs.

The VU meter lamps run off of A/C. A/C line voltage sagging, like when a refrigerator, Air conditioner unit turns on?

Anything by Kevin Gilbert. A largely unknown musician to the general public, but well know in the Industry, died too soon. One half of Toy Matinee, with Giraffe, and four albums-The Shaming of the True, Thud, Nuts, and Bolts- mostly all posthumously.

Hello Malcolm. I see you found me. I would go $100 plus $10 shipping for the transport panel. I also have a 52 manual, a 58 manual, and 58/MS-16 record play cards if you are interested.

Do you have the manual?

The only balanced I/O on the 388 is the mic inputs and the stereo buss outputs- all on XLR connectors. Everything else is unbalanced.

Send me pics of what you need. I may have some.

What model of recorder are you using? Need more info.

I meant "antenna" as a un-terminated cable that acting like an antenna. Pull the cable from the patchbay and short the tip to sleeve with a wire/needle nose pliers etc. Noise goes away? What else is connected to the patchbay?

So the unbalanced 1/4' are going to a patch bay- unterminated- as in antenna? What happens when you disconnect from the patchbay first, 2nd test. when you short the cable going to the buss input with a low value- say 100 ohm resistor?

You have to use a "mix down" scene. Think of the 688 as two items, a 10 X 8 mixer and a 8 track recorder. the Group outs are the output of the mixer, and the Group inputs are the inputs to the tape recorder. You have to understand how the scenes work. If your 688 as the original scenes in them a...

Since Gibson bought Teac in 2013, their whole Factory Service Dept. in L.A.- ask me how I know- was let go and Service was given to a company next door to the Montebello address.They bill themselves as "L.A. Factory Service". They do not service to component level- board swappers. The Product...

Yeah, I forgot about the 70 series machines. I haven't done any research, but as I said, Japan said the track spacing was different. We used to get some questionable responses from Teac Japan that we figured were evasion tactics filtered through management, because sometimes we would ask...

The 80-8 was a Teac product built in the 70s'- first 8 track 1/2" machine AFAIK. That was back when there were two different part numbers for the Sync and Repo heads- the part numbers were actually hand written on the top of the heads. The 38/48/58 all use the same PN for both Sync and Repo...

TSR-8 will work as long as the tape was not recorded on a 80-8, a predecessor of the 38/48/58/TSR-8. Track spacing is different so you would have crosstalk and/or reduced levels on some tracks.

You have to use the monitor section if you want to monitor PI/PO.

Meters read in playback? Does the monitor section work?