Moonroom72
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Hi, this is my first post on here, and any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
I just got a Yamaha MT8XII off eBay - everything seems to work perfectly fine on it, other than one thing: It will not record audio!
I plugged a synth into each of the 8 channels one at a time, routed everything just as it instructs in the manual, was getting signal prior and subsequent to recording, but nothing was actually put onto the tape.
Well, that's not true actually, when I maxed the headphones I could hear a very faint, very distorted and crumbly imprint of what I recorded. It wasn't even loud enough for one of the signal bars on the screen to light up. However when setting up the tracks, I had the signal bars going just about up to the very top. It was a strong signal, routed through the corresponding group and brought up to full level via the group volume knob, as instructed in the manual. So I had the signal assigned properly, had the track armed to record (blinking circle around the track number on the screen), and had the circle stop blinking and become solid when I hit the record/pause button. Even while recording, the signal bars were lighting up, but upon playback, only that tiny tiny crumbly signal remained on the tape.
I checked listening to it through the different mix options - the cue and monitor mix and all of that, tried flipping the input button on the track from mic/line to tape and every possible option to hear the recorded sound properly - it just wasn't there.
Any idea what might be going on? I cleaned the heads, have not demagnetized them though I don't imagine that would really solve this problem, but I do plan on trying.
Any suggestions would be great, as well as any recommendations for a source of replacement parts if I do indeed need to replace something.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm just somehow operating this thing wrong and nothing needs to be fixed...
I just got a Yamaha MT8XII off eBay - everything seems to work perfectly fine on it, other than one thing: It will not record audio!
I plugged a synth into each of the 8 channels one at a time, routed everything just as it instructs in the manual, was getting signal prior and subsequent to recording, but nothing was actually put onto the tape.
Well, that's not true actually, when I maxed the headphones I could hear a very faint, very distorted and crumbly imprint of what I recorded. It wasn't even loud enough for one of the signal bars on the screen to light up. However when setting up the tracks, I had the signal bars going just about up to the very top. It was a strong signal, routed through the corresponding group and brought up to full level via the group volume knob, as instructed in the manual. So I had the signal assigned properly, had the track armed to record (blinking circle around the track number on the screen), and had the circle stop blinking and become solid when I hit the record/pause button. Even while recording, the signal bars were lighting up, but upon playback, only that tiny tiny crumbly signal remained on the tape.
I checked listening to it through the different mix options - the cue and monitor mix and all of that, tried flipping the input button on the track from mic/line to tape and every possible option to hear the recorded sound properly - it just wasn't there.
Any idea what might be going on? I cleaned the heads, have not demagnetized them though I don't imagine that would really solve this problem, but I do plan on trying.
Any suggestions would be great, as well as any recommendations for a source of replacement parts if I do indeed need to replace something.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm just somehow operating this thing wrong and nothing needs to be fixed...
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