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I want to hook up my Nady phantom power unit/AKG 220 set-up into my TASCAM 106 or 3440 TEAC. Got female XLR end and have my own 1/4" cable and I want to solder them together. I found an online diagram, but I'm new to some of the terms and like "balanced" and "unbalanced". (link...

I'm a newbie, so please feel free to pile on. My TASCAM 106 is hissing on channels 3 and 4 when input switches are on "ATT" and "LINE", but are fine on "MIC". The hiss gets lower on "LINE" than "ATT", and are slightly different between channels 3 and 4. But everything gets quiet when I...

It was the 3440. I say "was" because when I cleaned the crap off the heads, it quit. Was the oxide jumping the track portions of the heads? Could be. It was from an old TASCAM tape that was bad from the friend I bought the stuff from. He bought me another new reel and it does fine. I'll look...

New guy here, I just took my recording stuff outa mothballs and it seemed to be working well. I played my two reels some and then left it for a few weeks. Today, I cleaned the heads with alcohol, played an old tape (that was breaking down, squeaking like mad, and depositing gunk on the heads...