Shadow_7
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My dad gave up his old reel to reel tape players in the hopes of digitizing his old 8" x 1/4" reels of tape. So I've got a Sony TC-155 and TC-355. I've got the TC-155 running, but the tape is playing about 10x's too fast. Any ideal on how to calm it's nerves to normal speed?
The the sticker on the adjustable power pin is free floating. So I'm guessing at this point what position is 110v. It runs from 100v to 240v on that between six possible combinations. Most of the settings seem to work, but all that do run fast. With a three speed switch which gives me the option to make it run even faster. I guess they're supposed to be one to four hour tapes, but are running through in about ten minutes.
I don't mind recording at warp speed, but slowing it down yields less than ideal results. The tape wobble alone from that speed generates a sort of UFO sound when slowed down. And it's near impossible to tell what the original content was. Walking bass or steele drums, who knows. Hopefully someone has more info to help me utilize this machine. Roughly 35 years old I suppose. I should probably get new belts, but I'm just making due for now. I really don't want to rent or go buy similar machines to accomplish this one time task of archiving roughly 50x 3 hour tapes x 2 sided. Although I'm not really sure how long the tapes last until I reach some form of normalcy. I do know they were meant for long flights on an airplane and should probably last more than ten minutes.
The the sticker on the adjustable power pin is free floating. So I'm guessing at this point what position is 110v. It runs from 100v to 240v on that between six possible combinations. Most of the settings seem to work, but all that do run fast. With a three speed switch which gives me the option to make it run even faster. I guess they're supposed to be one to four hour tapes, but are running through in about ten minutes.
I don't mind recording at warp speed, but slowing it down yields less than ideal results. The tape wobble alone from that speed generates a sort of UFO sound when slowed down. And it's near impossible to tell what the original content was. Walking bass or steele drums, who knows. Hopefully someone has more info to help me utilize this machine. Roughly 35 years old I suppose. I should probably get new belts, but I'm just making due for now. I really don't want to rent or go buy similar machines to accomplish this one time task of archiving roughly 50x 3 hour tapes x 2 sided. Although I'm not really sure how long the tapes last until I reach some form of normalcy. I do know they were meant for long flights on an airplane and should probably last more than ten minutes.