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newbiedj posted 4 years, 8 months ago...
i recently got a 4 track its an older one made sometime before i was born. when i first got it it had a little problem and the tape heads(i guess thats what they are called) would retract so you couldn't play/record or take the tape out.. but all i needed to do was spin this little wheel and add some wd-40 to it and it started working again (i guess the grease dried
now my 4-track is doing something weird to the recordings it kinda sounds like if i was messing with the pitch knob the whole time i recorded it or played it. but the pitch knob is dead center.
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c-rok posted 4 years, 8 months ago...
you have resistance somewhere in a moving object...could be tape bunching up in the tape reel, could be the tape spindles or wheels that the tape runs across
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newbiedj posted 4 years, 8 months ago...
well its kind of weird now.
it seems to be only doing it sometimes.
its a cassette recorder if that makes any difference... but what should i look at to try to repair this? -
c-rok posted 4 years, 8 months ago...
try a new tape..and clean dirty wheels inside with a q tip and some rubbing alchohol...
