He said he's scoped it, and is going to start checking caps but after that he's at a loss. Subject: FS: Complete Tascam 38 1/2' Reel to Reel + DBX units, cables, etc.

Do it gently as to not harm your pride and joy.Step 2: After cover removal, find the section of 7 trim pots (see photos below). Channel 4 however has no meter activity nor audio. Take off top cover of 388, behind the VU meters and above the in's and out's. All other channels have meter activity and I can hear and record audio to tape. Neither line in or mic in record to tape. Ive been troubleshooting before I posted here and I’m fairly certain it’s a malfunction in the machine. It could also happen that I might power it on one day and it was suddenly fixed, temporarily of course.Ĭurrently, Ive got it in the shop of a very competent repair tech in my area who has owned one of these machines before, and he said hes spent about 6 hours on it and is losing hope of finding the problem and is only going to spend another couple hours before he gives up. Teac Tascam Reel - 16 images - vintage audio exchange, teac vintage reel to reel, united home audio hq tape deck heavily modified and upgraded tascam, teac tascam 80 8 teac tascam reel tape recorders the museum of. My tascam 388 doesn’t record onto track 4. But the problem wasn't always there, say for instance if I moved it or it was jarred just a bit, the Left side may come back for a while, then disappear again. Let’s clean tape heads on the Tascam 388, fix the channel 1 fader, and discover what everyone besides me already knows: recording hot levels to tape is cool. Meaning that the recorded audio was on tape but not able to be panned Left at all without the signal disappearing. Not long after I bought it, I noticed that the Left channels were not audible unless panned to center.

I have a Tascam 388 that Ive had for a couple of years now.

Tascam 388 channel not recording