sync problem! cubase/ts1/trs8

[sixtiesman]

I wonder if there are any experts out there who could shed a little light on us?

Tascam TRS-8 tape deck. Nice!

The box in question is a Philip Rees TS1. We striped a tape (track 8) on the eight track tape deck. Then we connected the box to cubase and programed some drums. After some time it was possible to set the tape deck in motion and the drums would play from cubase!!!!! Great!!

Next we recorded some guitar onto track one of the TRS8, feeding the drum track from cubase to the headphones of the guitar player.

On playback the two things are out of sync!!!!!
The drums and guitar are together at the start then they drift apart.

Impossible I would have thought.......

 

[ssscientist]

My first impulse was to say that the guitar player is monitoring off the wrong head, but then I remembered the Tascam multi-tracks from that era have a 2 head design.

The way I read your post you are using the tape deck as the master. Try it the other way around with the computer as the master. And you need to allow a few blank bars at the top of the song for SMPTE lock-up to occur...

Post again if neither of these solves the problem.