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Just found out that taking the outs from the 238 through the patch bay into the mixer on the 388 is just as buzzy, with both balanced and unbalanced cables... If that helps any.

After recording a bunch of folks on my 388, I finally convinced a skuddy bar-punk band to record directly to cassette, through my Toft and onto the 238. Yes! It was a blast and a learning experience for sure, but it all sounds pretty cool and gross in the right ways. I DO have an ish'.... It...

I clean heads and demagnetize like a friggin' champ, man! I haven't tried cleaning the jacks... I'm using the XLR outs on the back. When i unplugged the cable from the back of the machine, the rumples stopped so i assumed it wasn't the cable. I can Dexoit and scrape off the pins in the jack i...

Hello! I've been the proud owner of a Tascam 388 for the past few years, and over the last year or so have watched almost all of my work move completely from the computer to my gorgeous all-in-one 1/4" 8 track. It's started making some muffled but noticeable rumble/rustle noises from the main...

I posted this same message on the Tape Op boards. I apologize for anyone who reads both... which is probably most of you! Anyway: it came from the radio | The Blendours I didn't record this, nor did I play on it, but it's my friends and I think it's really great music! This album and all their...

Thanks, Sweetbeats! That was the reply I was hoping for. I'll find a free night, and call my buddy over... And work on finding a service manual.

Really? No one knows what solder joints to check or anything? There's no hospitals around here, only my workbench and soldering iron downstairs...

My buddy said he cleaned them and they didn't look bad to my eyes. Seemed curious that both tracks 2 and 6 would have issues, especially since they're both sharing a buss. Do I have my terms right on this? Although, it's obviously ALMOST working, if I can get the VU's to respond when tracks 2...

After gushing about my 488 mkII to my buddy forever and ever, he finally got one. It won't record to tracks 2 and 6 on the tape though! Let me elaborate: *I've played a tape in the machine that has sound on all 8 tracks. All 8 play back fine, through the tape cues as well as the channels on the...

Oh ho ho yes! I finally dug back into this and 1000 grit sandpapered the wheel... got some smeary greasyness off and hopefully roughed it up a little, AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!! I can play, fast forward, and rewind!!! There's some bad connections here and there in the mixer section, but that...

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Something else! So, if I hold up both stoppers, hit rewind, and keep turning the right wheel by hand, it doesn't stop rewinding! Man, I really need to take the motor out and get a closer look at it, but it's attached to both of the reel tables and I don't know how to get those off the shaft in...

I noticed that there's these little rubber stoppers that push on the reels, i'm assuming to help it stop on a dime. Are these supposed to both move up automatically? Only the one on the left reel seems to lift up, but even when i hold them both away from the reels during a rewind, it sitll does...

The rubber feels pretty 'normal' to me. Not sticky, but not glossy. There's another video that I took before post #12 but didn't share... I talk too much in it and listening to that much of my own voice makes me not want to share it with others ;) Anyway, here it is. Take a look!

Is there something specific I should use to clean the idler wheel, or just some mildly soapy warm water and a rinse?

After putting it all together, it worked a LITTLE better! But not a whole lot. Without a tape in, I can get it to play and fastforward, but rewinding works for about 3 seconds and just stops, like someone hit the stop button. With a tape in, it can play (though I haven't tried it with...

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Had some more time to look at things today. I took the back off: The transport is under the boards on the left side. I couldn't remove anything to get at it, so i took out the two screws in the middle of the lower board that hold the transport down from the back. I flipped the machine back over...

Here's an exceptionally low quality video with terrible camera work, but at least you can see what it is/isn't doing. I could swear that yesterday the takeup spool would lurch forward a tiny bit when I'd hit play but almost immediately slow to a stop as quickly as it started. Now, it doesn't...

This is my first time taking a part a tape recorder with any intention of putting it back together. Is the transport something you can normally unscrew and lift up from the front, or will I need to be looking at the underside of the machine? Yeah, I know, I could just look myself, but I'm...