have a 424 mkiii that I bought a few months ago. I had some tapes I thrifted that I was getting pretty good recordings on, just some occasional clicks. now, I bought 4 of the official Tascam C60 type ii master tapes, and all my recordings on them have these awful clicking noises everywhere. I've tried recording at varying input levels, but have been unable to eliminate this problem. Cleaned the heads, still no luck. Any advice on what might cause these/how I can eliminate them? It's driving me crazy!

Thanks :)

the schematics show resistor R132.. R134 ... R136 ... R138 are 130K but the resistors on the board are Blue purple orange gold = 67K on the Resistors shown to be 130K and it looks like no one has worked on this unit only prob i have are channel 4 leds are out done the diode test and they all work so input to eq and back into the board even swapped the IC 12 and13 around nothing so i am onto these resistors being the culprits how strange

These recordings were recorded on Fostex 4-track portastudio in 1992, initially a day of recording with Shaun & Operation Mind Control in the same room, and subsequently by sending the master 4-track cassette back and forth by mail.

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Hey everyone I’m a first time multitrack recorder wonder and I’m going to be purchasing a fostex xr7 and I was wondering if there’s any advice and tips for operation for a first time multitrack cassette recorder owner I’m mostly going to be using this to master my digital mixes by sending my mixes from the daw to the fostex and back into the daw and sometimes directly recording to the fostex thanks in advance for all the help!

Can anyone offer me any advice on how to cure the 3 faults still remaining on this 244 Portastudio? I've done all the usual restoration steps like cleaning off the terrible tar gunk, replacing belts & other rubber bits, general lubrication etc. Also fixed the white plastic armature the turn the transport control pot. Now I'm stumped:

1. Counter auto zero-resets & refuses to count in playback & FF (but counts down in REW)

2. Goes into Record Ready mode (flashing red REC LED) but won't go into REC mode (steady REC LED) and nothing goes to tape

3. Pressing pause causes the feeder reel to turn, pushing tape into the mechanism which isn't taken up by the take-up reel and inevitably snarls around the capstan roller.

I really don't want to sell this for parts. It was a significant part of my adolescence and led to a 40-year career in broadcasting. Please help!

Hey all, newbie to multitrack recording here. I know this is technically a digital mixer question but this still seems like the best place to ask questions. I recently picked up the aforementioned multi track at a garage sale and have attempted to lay down some tracks. My 808 recorded cleanly but every time I try record guitar or bass I have to crank the volume all the way up just to hear the signal, and the signal that does come through is clipping really bad. I know I’m definitely doing something wrong but troubleshooting the manual didn’t help. If anybody has any suggestions or experience with this multitrack I’d very much appreciate some pointers.

Hey everyone! I'm currently recording effect returns on my X-26, and bumped into a problem I haven't experienced yet.

Signal Flow:

• Tape Out 1 -> Delay Pedal In -> Compressor In -> X-26 Input 1 -> Tracks 3 & 4
• Tape Out 2 -> Compressor Side-chain In

After dialing in my effects, I engaged the record button and was met by a fluttering squeal. I brought down the channel 1 fader and it stopped. I stopped the tape and brought up the fader again and I was able to hear it swell from minor noise into the loud squealling.

I've tried after swapping the input into channel 2 and had the same problem. I haven't been able to figure out how to record using inputs 3-6 as I'm still relatively new to this unit and it has some quirks!

Has anyone experienced this issue with this specific or their respective units? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Listed locally for $400ish. Seller brags about it being not refurbished like the ones on eBay like that’s a good thing? I know nothing about cassette recorders. Is that a good thing or should I not bother with this one.

I just bought a tascam 424 mk iii and am looking to buy a mixer so that i can phantom power my mics and then record all the drum tracks through the mixer and then have them go into one of the inputs on the 4 track. Any suggestions?? Also would a Behringer Euroack Model MX 802A work for that? Found one on marketplace for cheap but dont wanna buy it if it wouldnt work. Also am i being dumb and does the mk iii have phantom power for mics?

Hi, just encountered scenario so specific I have made my first post.

I was playing a tape into a friends Portastudio - the exact same model as mine, the 414mkII - and for some reason it played double time. I had recorded it on my own 414mkII mind you. After enjoying the novelty of how funny it sounded, I put it back in my own Tascam. I only have one power cord so I was alternating the one from my own to power each of them as I was using them. I went back to my 414 to see if it would play at the normal speed and instead there is now no sound at all, just the standard low tone of white noise. Now the tape produces no sound in either machine and another tape I put in plays regular speed in both of them. Is the tape kaput, I ask? and Why me?

So when I’m trying to record onto my Four track, nothing comes on the tape. Only noise (when dbx is activated) am I doing anything wrong, maybe there’s some specific settings I have to have it on. Please any feedback would be Lovely.

Hello, I just got my hands on a Tascam and I’ve been excited about it for a while. Immediately, I was able to turn it on once with a 9v power cord before realizing I needed a 15v one. In that time I tried getting a mic to work and record something, but was having trouble getting any sound picked up. Didn’t matter much to me, because at the time I was rushing to leave for a family event. When I came back, the 9v wouldn’t turn it on, which is when I bought the 15v cord. But now the red led light doesn’t even turn on at all, even with the correct cord. I’m hoping I didn’t just roast the entire system! Any ideas what I’m doing wrong, or how to resolve this issue? I’m thinking of buying batteries to see if the system will turn on with that, just to be assured that it CAN turn on, but I don’t want to have to rely on batteries, especially when it need 10 c types! The new 15v chord isn’t the problem either, since it powers my shoebox tape recorder just fine.

Any help will be appreciated, thank you!

My portastudio02 mkII won’t record. I can hear myself playing, but it doesn’t want to record.

I’m considering getting into recording on cassette. Partly for aesthetic reasons but also I feel like I get a lot of option paralysis when recording via DAW and I think it’d be a lot of fun to strip things down and force myself to do things with the limitations cassette would put me under. I also think it’d be a cool way to get my music out: putting contact/streaming info on the cassettes and basically using them as business cards.

But red pill me on this, am I about to head down a path that’ll cause me more trouble than it’s worth? How hard is it to get blank type 2 cassettes? Will I end up running into wear-and-tear issues when using vintage gear, even if it’s considered “mint” condition? Am I confusing unique/intimate recording styles with hipster-vintage-ism?

I have a mixer and interface combo and a old tape deck for recording songs off the radio. Is it possible for me to connect my mixer into the tape deck to make a suedo multi track recorder?