engage play with no cassette?

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Hi all,

I am trying to use my Tascam 112R mk11 to make a tape loop effect.

the cassette housing i am using is just the bottom half. so no top of the cassette or the spools. because of this the tascam will not engage play.

i have tried pressing in (as best i can) the spool motors and the tape sensor springs at the top but i am missing something?

does anyone have a clue? done it before?

does this even make sense (i dont know the terminology of the parts)?

Thanks.

Ellis
 
This is just going to be mechanical.
I did a lot of things to cassettes decades ago.
Look closely at mechanical sensors coming to the cassette.
You can buy cassette tape loops. Also, how to make one is all over youtube.
 
Is there a sensor on the take up spool? Been a long time, but I'm pretty sure you can put it into record pause by prodding the little sensor lever at the top, but if the take up spool races, it triggers stop assuming the tape is broken.
 
Hi all,

I am trying to use my Tascam 112R mk11 to make a tape loop effect.

the cassette housing i am using is just the bottom half. so no top of the cassette or the spools. because of this the tascam will not engage play.

i have tried pressing in (as best i can) the spool motors and the tape sensor springs at the top but i am missing something?

does anyone have a clue? done it before?

does this even make sense (i dont know the terminology of the parts)?

Thanks.

Ellis
There is a little button at the back of the cassette tray that was intended to protect a cassette tape from being accidentally recorded over. The cassette has a little plastic tab, that if you break it out will prevent the recorder from going into record mode. Just press that button while engaging the record mode and the transport will engage.
 
Thanks for your replies. i couldn't get it to work. so i ended up putting the loop into a full cassette body for the test.

i was hoping to use it as a guitar effect. i wanted to slightly obscure the erase head so that the signal was partly erased on each pass. i failed at this. it made some nice noise though.
 
There is a little button at the back of the cassette tray that was intended to protect a cassette tape from being accidentally recorded over. The cassette has a little plastic tab, that if you break it out will prevent the recorder from going into record mode. Just press that button while engaging the record mode and the transport will engage.
I used to put selotape over those holes in the rear of the cassette body.
 
I used to put selotape over those holes in the rear of the cassette body.
Me too, but when you want to engage the transport without a tape inserted you need to manually press that hidden button while engaging the transport at the same time.
 
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