This cassette-based 4 tracker portastudio was in a bit of rough shape as it originated as a donor for another repair, the plastic head ‘sleeper’ (which mounts the heads and also holds a strong spring to maintain pressure when playing) had broken. More so the transport was all gummed up and hardly moved, the main […]
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No sooner was one 414 about to be going out of the door, another was coming in! The customer of the Tascam 414 LED metering noise problem on the previous fix, had a friend with a 414 having the exact same problem, so brought it along to receive the same fix. Confirmed the same symptoms
Another Tascam 414 comes through the door as the previous one goes out! Read More »
Another customer recommendation brought this unit in to see if an odd problem could be resolved – a ‘flubbing’ sound that occurs when armed for recording and levels above -10dB on meters. The unit was pristine, inside and out – looks like it had hardly been used. At first the issue couldn’t be replicated –
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This cassette deck was stored in an attic for many years. Unfortunately no longer worked when tried, couldn’t open door etc. Saw pinch roller at the bottom of the box and luckily the retaining pin was floating around inside the unit. A quick look at the mechanism confirmed worst fears – the belts had reverted
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Here’s a Fostex X-15 4-track cassette deck in for repair – owner had tried swapping some parts over from a donor machine to fix an issue with the head block plastic breaking (known issue with the X-15 portastudio), and got in a bit of a mess, no playback etc. First thing noticed, the four record
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Customer had recently obtained this excellent Sony Walkman but had slipping belts. At first thought this wasn’t going to be an easy fix, as had another walkman in the past which would have needed about 30 wires desoldered from unmarked locations to gain access! However this one we had a service manual available if needed,
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