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Yeah, that's a solid move, too, fb. Thanks!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Cory, his family, and his home!

Hi, I'm wondering if there's something basic (or not so basic) I'm missing here. As the title says, I'm hearing playback with no issue at all, but haven't successfully recorded a single note. Here's what I do: I arm the track to record, red light starts blinking. I hit REC/PLAY, red light turns...

I wouldn't pay more than $140 or so for one of these with this issue. The scary part of course, is all the other stuff that might also be wrong once you have it up and running and testing.

Thanks fb! I did try that already but had no luck. I should probably give it another go before moving on to something else. I've at least learned which cable corresponds to track 2: red (I think)!

As the title says... I'm testing a Porta One and if I record over a pre recorded cassette, tracks 1, 3, 4 fully erase, and only playback my test recording. But track 2 retains maybe 40% of its original recording. I've also tested it with my own recordings on the Porta One and the same thing...

Thanks for the info, hautbois! If you look at post #6, you'll see that it was an issue of the idler tire not having enough contact with the take up reel. I worked out a solution, and it's still going strong!

Fixed, with a caveat! I removed the idler tire/arm assembly (by lifting that little white plastic pin/cap thing to the left of the tire) ,cleaned, lubed, and then...kinda improvised a fix. I took off the tire from the wheel, spooled a bit of thread around the wheel and put the tire back on...

Here's the point of (non) friction between the idler tire and the take up reel. Quick googling shows that someone is selling tires for the Porta One, and a bunch of other machines, but not this one! A youtuber made a new one out of a couple rubber plumbing washers, for the 244. I love the...

Thanks Sweetbeats! Here's what I see when I remove the black reel plate from the transport assembly. Is that idler tire troublesome? I can't tell just by looking at it. I cleaned and relubricated what I can see, *while keeping this whole thing intact*. Mainly because I haven't figured out how to...

I've just found a deal on three machines: 2 Porta Two's and 1 Porta One. Of course, none of them are fully functional, but the hope is that eventually, one of them will work, so I'm messing around with the Porta Two that is the most promising of the group. The only thing in the way of this...

YouTube This youtuber is great, and like them, I also particularly love the sound of overdriving a four track.

I currently have an audio interface with only two inputs, embarrassing, I know. After some not insignificant time pricing out four input interfaces, and after rereading your comment, maybe now I want one with SIX! Gah, this was all so simple when I imagined it a couple months ago! I'd play the...

That's awesome to hear, Strangefella. To update my situation...I never had to swap out the capacitors! Phew. I assume there was some weird power issue due to a funny power strip. Can that happen? No clue! But what happened was: other stuff in my room started acting funny right around the same...

I found these links helpful: SOLVED: Tascam MF-P01 recorder - hearing nothing during pl - Fixya Tascam Porta02mkii repair - no playback? - Gearslutz

I'm pretty new at this stuff, but one thing I would check is if there is actually sound being recorded onto the tape. Do you have another cassette player? If so, you can play your 'recorded' cassette on that to see if you're definitively recording audio on the Portastudio. If you are, then...

Haha, totally agree with "finished is better than perfect" And, yeah, I'd be the only one making me obsess over the details! I'll give the individual-track-output a shot.

Thanks for your perspective, grimtraveller! My worry is that sending out all the tracks individually will add to the amount of fussing and fretting over each one when I'm working on them digitally. These are tunes that I'd rather be done with quickly. Maybe I'm showing how inexperienced I am...

Thanks for the info, sweetbeats! I'll continue to narrow my search to Teac/Tascam "high speed" with dbx. As far as output to digital...I don't hate the idea of sending my live mix from stereo outs into stereo ins. I understand that really limits what I can do with the files once I'm working on...

Hello! This here's my first post after a few months of lurking on this wonderful forum. I'm embarrassed to be so needy right off the bat, but also feel like I'm in good company! Here's the situation: I have a bunch (50+) of old four track tapes that were recorded 15-20 years ago with a Tascam...