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Hi there,
I recently found myself with an old Tascam (one in the title of course
), but I've had a rather odd problem.
The recorder worked fine with the person who owned it before me, and it mainly works fine for me to, I switch it on, it goes on, the mic works, I can record etc. Weirdly enough though, no matter what I do, it just will not play back my recording.
I know first off that it has recorded, as I tried recording onto a cassette and playing it back on a tape player successfully. I also tried using another cassette which was not recorded on the tascam, which again, played on the tape player, but not the tascam.
I then thought it may have been a problem with the headphones, but it was not, as monitoring worked - I could hear myself speak through the microphone.
I then found these forums, which diagnosed what appeared to be the same problem as a blown playback amp, but this is the weird part - correct me if I'm wrong, but if the playback amp was blown, would I not be able to hear an audible "click" sound when ever I pressed play? As I can in fact hear that click in my headphones.
I'd appreciate if someone could possibly diagnose what's wrong? And also if possible, how I could fix it, as I'd love to be able to record analog - there's just that extra "something" compared to recording digitally for me.
I recently found myself with an old Tascam (one in the title of course
), but I've had a rather odd problem.The recorder worked fine with the person who owned it before me, and it mainly works fine for me to, I switch it on, it goes on, the mic works, I can record etc. Weirdly enough though, no matter what I do, it just will not play back my recording.
I know first off that it has recorded, as I tried recording onto a cassette and playing it back on a tape player successfully. I also tried using another cassette which was not recorded on the tascam, which again, played on the tape player, but not the tascam.
I then thought it may have been a problem with the headphones, but it was not, as monitoring worked - I could hear myself speak through the microphone.
I then found these forums, which diagnosed what appeared to be the same problem as a blown playback amp, but this is the weird part - correct me if I'm wrong, but if the playback amp was blown, would I not be able to hear an audible "click" sound when ever I pressed play? As I can in fact hear that click in my headphones.
I'd appreciate if someone could possibly diagnose what's wrong? And also if possible, how I could fix it, as I'd love to be able to record analog - there's just that extra "something" compared to recording digitally for me.
Do a little research on the 424 (the original one) and I think you want be disappointed. But if you are like me, you are determined to fix that Porta 02 right 
