Hi,
Newbie here. I recently purchased a TASCAM 244 in working condition. Made some recordings and everything was fine until yesterday.
I wanted to record a stereo track from my computer into the tascam, so, I set the left channel output of my computer's sound card to the input of channel 1 in the tascam and panned hard left, I did the same for the right channel of the sound card, connected to channel 2 of the tascam and panned hard right. Set all 4 channels in the TASCAM to MIC/Line and engaged the 4 ch recording modus in the TASCAM (I did this because I was using an used tape and wanted to erase all four channels in the tape). When I was done recording and wanted to listen to my recording, I engaged all 4 channels to TAPE and the monitor bus to REMIX, and channel 1 was only a kind of low noise (left side), no recording at all, but channel 2 was ok (right side). I decided to test the same process with another used tape, and the result was the same, channel 1 gone, while channel 2 was ok. I did the same with 4 used tapes and the result was the same. So, the tapes are not the problem. I decided then to perform the same test but for channel 3 and 4 (channel 3 panned to the left and channel 4 to the right), this time channel 3 was ok, but channel 4 was gone (noise present). I decided then to test the monitor bus engaging the switch to CUE and started to increase the level of channel 1 and 2 of the CUE monitor system and both channels were present. So, I just don't get it, is like the TAPE/REMIX system is faulty, but the CUE system is not, but I have to use the TAPE/REMIX system in order to transfer what I recorded back to the computer, so I am here scratching my head, because I used the same process for 5 stereo tracks (from the computer to a stereo pair channels in the TASCAM and from the LINE OUT of TASCAM back to the computer) and it worked fine, until the sixth song. Does somebody here in this forum experienced the same for this TASCAM 244 unit? I will appreciate any help in this matter. Cheers!
Newbie here. I recently purchased a TASCAM 244 in working condition. Made some recordings and everything was fine until yesterday.
I wanted to record a stereo track from my computer into the tascam, so, I set the left channel output of my computer's sound card to the input of channel 1 in the tascam and panned hard left, I did the same for the right channel of the sound card, connected to channel 2 of the tascam and panned hard right. Set all 4 channels in the TASCAM to MIC/Line and engaged the 4 ch recording modus in the TASCAM (I did this because I was using an used tape and wanted to erase all four channels in the tape). When I was done recording and wanted to listen to my recording, I engaged all 4 channels to TAPE and the monitor bus to REMIX, and channel 1 was only a kind of low noise (left side), no recording at all, but channel 2 was ok (right side). I decided to test the same process with another used tape, and the result was the same, channel 1 gone, while channel 2 was ok. I did the same with 4 used tapes and the result was the same. So, the tapes are not the problem. I decided then to perform the same test but for channel 3 and 4 (channel 3 panned to the left and channel 4 to the right), this time channel 3 was ok, but channel 4 was gone (noise present). I decided then to test the monitor bus engaging the switch to CUE and started to increase the level of channel 1 and 2 of the CUE monitor system and both channels were present. So, I just don't get it, is like the TAPE/REMIX system is faulty, but the CUE system is not, but I have to use the TAPE/REMIX system in order to transfer what I recorded back to the computer, so I am here scratching my head, because I used the same process for 5 stereo tracks (from the computer to a stereo pair channels in the TASCAM and from the LINE OUT of TASCAM back to the computer) and it worked fine, until the sixth song. Does somebody here in this forum experienced the same for this TASCAM 244 unit? I will appreciate any help in this matter. Cheers!
