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I think I said that about digital in my above post. The thing is, these kids for the most part grew up with CD's only. Cassettes are something interesting because they didn't experience them. Add that with the fact that every plug-in company on earth has been pumping out virtual tape machines...

All the problems you bring up are due to having an unmaintained machine to play the cassette in. I agree that it's more problematic to use the format exclusively, but that's not what's going on with kids who are bringing it back. I grew up with 'em and didn't really care one way or the other...

There isn't any places selling that model's belts as a kit, but I'm pretty sure you can order the individual belts you need from this place... Audio Cassette Parts You've already done the required measurements so just look up the belts and hopefully they have what you need. Good luck.

Yeah, they're lines that appear across the width of the tape, evenly spread out across the entire thing. I love TDK's, one of my favorite tapes are the TDK Pro SM's but from what the dudes over at T-heads say, the railroading issue causes uneven response or something like that, and gets worse...

Have you noticed what's "railroading" with older TDK type II's? I heard about it a while back over at Tapeheads and checked out a SA 60 I have from the early 80's and sure enough, it had the tracks all on the tape. I've read that it affects older TDK's from 80-90 or something like that. Pretty...

I read something about this a while back on an old thread where someone was bypassing the dbx on their 244. I never used it when I was using 4-tracks primarily back in the day because I turned it on once after recording something and hated what I heard (I didn't realize you had to record with it...

Right on brother! I can relate. Not to the living in the RV thing, although NYC has been in a collective bad mood these days, but that's another issue for another website. I too rediscovered how much I love using the old Tascam and Fostex machines of my youth (I'm mid 30's) after a long absence...

Awesome! I never even noticed that when I had that model back in 2012 (granted I didn't have an interface to run tracks into). Kinda wish I didn't sell it for $75 now.

Damn, I was hoping I was wrong on that. Don't put any more work into it dude. You'll end up spending another $15 on a belt and either make it worse or maybe not being able to return it. If you had some prior experience with repairs then maybe it'd be something to try, but you don't want to dig...

Try cleaning the heads in the tape well with 91% isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip.

Yeah, I've read that 488 thread on how to do that, somewhere in here at some point. I wonder if the OP has an interface with 4 inputs? Let us know if that's something you might want to do at some point because I'd like an excuse to learn how to do that myself.

I found this on the DR Zee site. It's pertaining to the R8 model, but describes the same problem I'm having with the "chirping" sound. The R8 has a plastic capstan wheel which I'm not sure the Model 80 has (the Model 80 has copper and metal reel pulleys where the R8 has plastic) but when I...

The 424 MKII, and III have the 4 tape outs but unfortunately the 424 doesn't. I learned this the hard way back in 2011 when I bought what was supposed to be a MKII from eBay and ended up receiving the first 424 instead. I didn't pay enough attention, and honestly didn't really even know the...

Cool. Unfortunately, the 424 doesn't have 4 tape outs, which means it doesn't have 4 individual outputs for every track. If it did, you could hook each one up to an input on yr interface (assuming you have an interface w/ 4 inputs) and capture each track to a track in Pro Tools or Logic or...

Man, those are both pretty basic. I guess the X-18H is newer so that's a plus. Other than that, there's not much to say about those. They're both pretty similar, a couple inputs, a trim and pan knob and some faders. If you want to get a 4-track I'd recommend the Tascam 414 or one of the 424's in...

Yeah, I'll check 'em when I take 'em out. Ordered a new set today. I'll let you guys know what happens. I used it again earlier, and it started to squeal after running for 15 minutes or so. I listened carefully and it seems like it's coming from the right reel. I'm not sure why it only starts up...

Huh, I never thought of that. Maybe. I'm ordering a belt set tomorrow and I'm going to try to adjust the RW somehow.

I'm not 100% sure, I opened it up and they seemed okay but maybe there's an issue. I may as well buy a new set from Marrs Belts when they are up and running again. It can't hurt. If I'm going to go in there and take things apart I may as well put new ones in. The belts are flat, and pretty much...

Yeah, I should check that. I was thinking that it had something to do with the strength of the RW because it only has trouble when I'm at the start of a fresh tape tape to about a quarter through, then it works fine. I've asked this question on a couple different forums and have been looking...

Hey guys, So I've been recording with my Fostex Model 80 for the last couple months in preparation for my upcoming album, and it's been awesome. I track to tape (sometimes use a click and put down main guitar, bass, vocals, and keyboard/synth tracks) and then run everything into Logic for...