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mmay519
09-27-2008, 04:21 PM
Hi, Everyone--

We had alot of rain in central PA today, so no soccer, lawnwork, etc.: time for taping!

Or so I thought! I began taping Edison recordings off the Internet, and about an hour into things, my Pioneer CT-W603RS starts squealing on the record side, and then "grinds" to a halt. Okay, so I thought, all right, I'll try another machine, an Onkyo TA-RW313 I purchased used three weeks ago. This deck worked fine until about two hours ago: side A (which I usually use for fast-forwarding/rewinding the tape before recording) also came to a dead stop, and the record side, which sounded fine earlier today, sounded worse than some of the Edison cylinders I was taping! The sound has a high-pitched whine, and the music could be heard in the background, as if far away.

My "good" tape deck is a Sony TCK-400S, and I use dual decks for listening and to save wear-and-tear on the Sony. I don't always have the dual decks connected to my stereo, so I thought it would be easier to use one of those to tape from the computer, located in another room.

Does this happen to anyone else?! Does it sound like I need some new belts for my equipment?

Have a nice evening!

Mike

Scorpion8
09-27-2008, 04:28 PM
We had alot of rain in central PA today, so no soccer, lawnwork, etc.: time for taping!

Where you at in Central PA?

mmay519
09-27-2008, 06:17 PM
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Mike

Web Police
09-27-2008, 07:08 PM
Were you using the same tape in both decks? Or is it just a horrible coincidence? :-?

Acoustic
09-27-2008, 07:16 PM
That is weird. When was the last time you cleaned the tape path on those decks? Also I was wondering the same thing.. was it was the same tape in both?

mmay519
09-27-2008, 07:17 PM
A horrible coincidence in this case: I was using a Sony CD-it 74 in the Pioneer, and a Maxell XLII in the Onkyo. I did test each of these tapes in the sony, and had no playback/winding/rewinding issues. The last tape recorded on the Onkyo sounded bad on the Sony deck, too.

Mike

mmay519
09-27-2008, 07:26 PM
That is weird. When was the last time you cleaned the tape path on those decks?

The Pioneer I cleaned last night, in that I hoped to have some time today to do some taping. I purchased the Onkyo three weeks ago, I cleaned the heads and transport after I got it home. I've only used it two or three times since.

Mike

retrokeeper
09-27-2008, 07:26 PM
Time for a re-belting??At least that's what I've been doing lately,still have a Pioneer dubbing deck that needs "deck II" new main drive and take up reel belts installed. Rob