| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1867.1 | | WEFXEM::COTE | Volume Support Specs. make it loud? | Wed Jan 18 1989 12:24 | 6 |
| If it doesn't happen in the same place, for the same length of time,
every time, the problem is your boom-box.
Check your speaker connections.
Edd
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| 1867.2 | | DISCVR::HAJI | | Wed Jan 18 1989 15:28 | 7 |
| re.1
I notice it when I listen to it thru headphone on my walkman. It
happens the same place every time, which indicates it has been recorded
that way. I am going to listen to my master thru headphone tonight
and see if it is coming out that way from the 4-track recorder
Hamid
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| 1867.3 | tape | DFLAT::DICKSON | Plan data flows first | Wed Jan 18 1989 17:07 | 1 |
| Could be a dropout. Do you use best-quality tape?
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| 1867.4 | | SALSA::MOELLER | Commie Martyrs High, class'o'67 | Wed Jan 18 1989 19:09 | 7 |
| Could be something as silly as a glazed rubber pinch roller in the
stereo deck. When it gets glazed and slick, the tape can squirm
in its path, dropping out one channel.
Try cleaning the head, capstan(s) and pinch roller(s).
karl
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| 1867.5 | | DISCVR::HAJI | | Thu Jan 19 1989 10:21 | 9 |
| I listened to the master tape thru the MT-100 monitor headphone
and there was no missing on the monitor. Then I tried it thru the
stereo out into the boombox and couldn't detect a miss either.
That is telling me it is the boombox recorder that messes up. I
clean the head and capstans regularly. This problem is not consistent
enough for me to catch it. It comes and goes. I am using a sears
tape cleaning head kit ($4-5) which is a tape with a bottle of cleaner
in it. Any suggestions on better cleaner?
Hamid
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| 1867.6 | Paranoia strikes deep..... | TYFYS::MOLLER | Halloween the 13th on Elm Street #7 | Thu Jan 19 1989 12:07 | 21 |
| As a side note, a while back I bought a box of Fuji 46 minute CrOx
tapes (I usually buy 10 at a time, since I never seem to know when I'll
need another tape). As it turned out all but 2 of the tapes had some
random problems with the tapes on the outer edges, usually somewhere in
the middle of the tape. This caused quit a panic when I first noticed
it, because I thought that my Porta-studio was somehow destroying
tapes. I must have cleaned and inspected the heads 100 times & always,
the next tape that I used had the same problem somewhere down the line,
always one either track 1 or 4 (A or D). Usually it was just a few
seconds of drop out, however, if you stopped the tape & pulled the
cassette out, you would see this very consistant horrible mark on the
tape. But... None of my other tapes had this problem. The clue that it
was the tapes, and not the Porta-studio came when the tapes exhibited
the same sort of problem on my regular cassette deck. I stopped using
the Fuji tapes & switched to Sony UX 90's (about the same price from
the Membership Warehouse I buy my tapes from) - the problem went away
and has never re-occurred (this happened to me around 3 years ago). I
still occasionally get drop outs, but nothing like what these bad tapes
were doing.
Jens
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| 1867.7 | | NAC::SCHUCHARD | PC Arcade | Fri Jan 20 1989 10:44 | 13 |
|
perhaps this is obvious, but...
i've always assumed dropouts were caused by either defective
tape or too much crud on the heads which then mucks the tape.
it also occurs most frequently (for me) in the middle of the
tape and always after too many recordings (i destroy many mixes
i'm afraid).
anyone disagree?
bob
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| 1867.8 | Can you guess what kind of 4-track I'm considering buying? 8^) | MAIL::EATOND | | Fri Jul 20 1990 13:17 | 4 |
| Has this issue (.0) been solved?
Dan
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