Hi everyone!
I found this forum because I am experiencing a problem with my Tascam Portastudio 424. Please forgive me any mistakes in my English, for I live in the Netherlands and English is not my native language.
My problem is this: when recording anything on my portastudio - for instance on track 1 and2, or on track 3 and 4 - the track indicators show that all is going well. Incoming levels seem to bee okay. But if I than play what I have just recorded, one track has a much lower output level than the other. Also the track indicators show different output levels.
The recording and playing heads are clean as can be. Changing the input tracks does not help.
Does anyone have an idea what can be wrong? My recorder is several years old and I suspect that the recording head is broken, or is slowly getting worse. But that's only my suspicion.
I would like to know if anyone has experienced this problem before and if so, what was done to overcome the problem, before I take my recorder to a specialist and probably have to pay a lot of money.
Hope to hear from you and many thanks beforehand.
Greetings from Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Hans Faaij.
I found this forum because I am experiencing a problem with my Tascam Portastudio 424. Please forgive me any mistakes in my English, for I live in the Netherlands and English is not my native language.
My problem is this: when recording anything on my portastudio - for instance on track 1 and2, or on track 3 and 4 - the track indicators show that all is going well. Incoming levels seem to bee okay. But if I than play what I have just recorded, one track has a much lower output level than the other. Also the track indicators show different output levels.
The recording and playing heads are clean as can be. Changing the input tracks does not help.
Does anyone have an idea what can be wrong? My recorder is several years old and I suspect that the recording head is broken, or is slowly getting worse. But that's only my suspicion.
I would like to know if anyone has experienced this problem before and if so, what was done to overcome the problem, before I take my recorder to a specialist and probably have to pay a lot of money.
Hope to hear from you and many thanks beforehand.
Greetings from Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Hans Faaij.