I fixed a machine for a customer years ago; "like you could not find fault". Finally I had him bring his own tapes in, and sure enough that was the issue.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
I suspect a tape but will extensively test this because it is a long way home.
@svenschwingel8632
2 жыл бұрын
Those Maxell DDS HS-4 tapes were ridiculously good. I have some 20+ year old things lying around that can still do recordings with extremely low raw error rates on my Sony machines. Maxell was always known for their very rigid tapes back in the glory days of compact cassette. When a TDK tape was played on a somewhat dirty pinch roller, it showed railroading in no time. But not Maxell ... it took way more to damage them.
@digitaladdiction8612
2 жыл бұрын
I also have one of those TASCAM's but I don't have a power adapter. It's so sticky once you pick it up you can't put it down. I had no idea you could use a computer backup DATA tape as a DAT Audio tape. That's pretty cool!
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Yes i have one too, and it's teac cousin. All sticky. I covered mine with packing tape and the other one used alcohol to remove it.
@gyrgrls
2 жыл бұрын
I have a real hangup over dropouts. Makes me want to beat the drum every time.
@kyoudaiken
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe the mechanism got thwacked in shipping and got thwacked for unthwacking again in shipping to you. :D
@svenschwingel8632
2 жыл бұрын
I bought a couple of used JVC DAT tapes that would only rewind on the PCM-2700 but not my other machines. If the hubs have too much resistance and the inner glide foil has lost its lube layer, there's not much you can do. Maybe your customer should have sent you the non-rewinding tapes just to be sure.
@hmarc417
2 жыл бұрын
Oh and your common-terry is easy to listen to ... where others I cant listen to for more then 5 min...at a time. THANK YOU also easy to follow along with as i fix my equipment....
@gyrgrls
2 жыл бұрын
Some of the best common-terry I have ever heard was from a man of the cloth. His questions would emanate from the poll pit.
@franciscojimenez8089
2 жыл бұрын
hello I have a portable radio am stereo and fm stereo model a1 it does not give stereophony in fm in am stereo mode only one channel is heard what problem can you have
@zx8401ztv
2 жыл бұрын
Yep it's one of those annoying faults, it will play up once you send it back to the owner. I've had that with transceiver repairs. i'm always supprised how well dat works.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
This one will be extensively tested for a minimum of 1 week to see if i can re-create the fault. It aparantly only happened on rewind. So tapes being ff then Rew end to end will be done. Probably put 100 full cycles on it before sending back.
@gabrieleorioli1760
2 жыл бұрын
Help, I misaligned the tape transport on my Panasonic MiniDV camcorder (my one and only). Should I be looking for a new one or can it be saved without the service thingy that panasonic wants in the service manual? Sorry for spamming here but I am stumped and I trust you have the right knowledge. Cheers from Italy.😀
@dlarge6502
2 жыл бұрын
I also record off the radio, although talk radio stations. Unfortunately my digital radio I record from records to SD card, which would be fine if it actually bothered to log the date and time of the recording! It merely logs the time in the filename thus if I am not on the ball and remember to empty the card at the end of the day I can easily lose track of what the recording date was. If it were a tape I would at least have an indication of what recordings were made before other recordings on later days, but instead being an sd card with a filesystem everything is ordered by its file name, mixing up the recordings out of sequence. I might loop a minidisc recorder into the audio output. I have a flash based PCM recorder that will do a proper job with file dates etc but that thing eats batteries and is awkward and fiddly to operate. I use that for field recordings mostly.
@catman58
2 жыл бұрын
which one would be able to record more frequencies
@tacofortgens3471
6 ай бұрын
On all dat tapes, just less running time due to faster rexording and playbacl speed. Up to 48khz instead of 44.1khz
@Dr.-Smart
2 жыл бұрын
if u hate it that much maybe go back to video cameras ;) , i enjoyed those videos
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
I wasn't referring to DAT. I was referring to any device that works perfectly on the bench. While wasting time on something that gas decided to work means I can't be fixing something else. I do have a big camera that could use service some day.
@danmackintosh6325
2 жыл бұрын
okay, given the symptom described & having seen up to 3 minutes so far I believe your acronym to be No Fault Found... maybe it was a ghost...
@catman58
2 жыл бұрын
should ask him to send the tapes that he was trying to use
@Capturing-Memories
2 жыл бұрын
Some are clueless to make a distinction between a faulty tape and a faulty deck, He most likely has one of those dry moldy tapes that the spools are stuck. I would still charge those people for their stupidity.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Can't say what the problem is / was. I don't think he is that clueless. He has more than one deck as I have seveived 5 or 6 for him over the past year. Before shipping this back i will be running a minimum of 100 tapes through it end to end and if it does fault there will be a follow up. I have already informed him i will be testing it for probably a week. I'll bring in in the house and wind and rewind tapes all day to make sure it isn't some strange intermittent. Remember these are quite mechanical so something may have gotten stuck and it freed up being tossed around in the mail. These things happen and it is always frustrating when the fault can not be replicated, especially when a tape could cause trouble.
@allanrichardson9081
2 жыл бұрын
Are these the “byte addressible” tapes with the tape and both reels driven by an endless loop stretched over a wheel on the rear of the cartridge, driven by the capstan? If not, those are even worse! Iomega sold those for PC backup in the ‘90s and the cartridges had a habit of despooling the tape while rewinding, even on the FIRST use! Without their special tools, they were almost impossible to respool, so all you could do was mail them back for a new tape, and they cost about $45 (a couple of Cs in today’s money), so only a commercial data center could afford to have spares to use while waiting for the tape to be returned. Biggest ripoff of low budget customers ever! Four hours to write a backup, and the tape despooled while rewinding; no way to run the four hour verification, and if it didn’t despool on those first two passes, how could you trust it not to despool when you needed to restore something?
@crashbandicoot4everr
2 жыл бұрын
I think you're talking about the QIC data cartridge tape which is a different format.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Dat used a capstan and pinch roller. You are thinking if those self tensioning QIC linear tapes. I still have a few but no drive to use them on. 35 years ago I backed my computer up with one. 40 megs, then 80 Meg's. Then I got a 2 gig dat computer drive. (Thus all the tapes I use for audio now)
@750kv8
2 жыл бұрын
I think your drive must have been faulty, it was supposed to detect tape end before despooling (if you are talking about the QIC format that is), there are holes near both ends of the tape that optical sensors can detect. However, I'm not sure how the developers of the format were 'OK' with no clamps and leaders on the spindles, that seems silly to me. But probably with a belt drive in the cartridge like that (that was pretty ingenious IMO) they won't have been a good idea.
@technixbul
2 жыл бұрын
Can you put a tape from regular compact cassette to DAT cassette and record on it? Is it possible? I mean it appears to me that width of the tape is the same.
@dlarge6502
2 жыл бұрын
No the tape is narrower (in dat)
@nickfatsis9607
2 жыл бұрын
@@dlarge6502 both DAT and Compact Cassette tape are 3.81mm wide, it's the formulation of analogue tape that won't work very well in DAT, you might be able to use DAT tape in a Metal position 4 Compact Cassette and record in a cassette deck.
@randymoyer5351
2 жыл бұрын
have him send a few of his Tapes then Try it, prolly is the tapes they use in Machine are Bad or sticking to heads?
@hmarc417
2 жыл бұрын
Tape ,,,hard drive ,,,,come see come saw... Either way it is still time consuming and laborious.... lol 24 hours files from Pandora.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
I log a 3 hour tape and i can scan through it and copy the 5 or 6 tracks I want in a 3 hour tape in about 30 minutes. Now you will say just download it. Well if i knew the tune I would but most stuff I don't know the title. When i hear something I like i record it and then look up the track.
@tacofortgens3471
Ай бұрын
Long term storage hardive, dvd/bluray
@catman58
2 жыл бұрын
you think these tapes are better than reel-to-reel tapes
@coyote_den
2 жыл бұрын
CCBFM Came Clear By F*cking Magic
@amatorev
2 жыл бұрын
the sound quality is the same as that of Hi8, video8?
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
I ate and video 8 was an analog FM recording. So was VHS hi-fi and beta hifi. The audio signal modulated and FM carrier that was recorded on the tape no different than how an FM carrier is fed to a transmitter and broadcast over the air to be picked up by your FM radio. Believe it or not that FM signal can be recorded on tape which is exactly what is done in a VCR and FM carrier that's actually in the a.m. radio band is presented to the video head and instead of being broadcast over the air is recorded on tape. If you took that signal and amplified it and put it to an antenna it would radiate just like any broadcast transmitter and could be received on a radio that has FM reception. Digital audio tape on the other hand is a digital signal the incoming audio is digitized as a 16-bit digital signal that is quantized at either 32 kilohertz 44.1 kilohertz or 48 khz. 8 mm and hi8 video did have an optional PCM digital soundtrack that could be added to an existing tape. It was quantized as 8-bit compounded digital audio at 32 khz. So what they did was the incoming signal was compressed to half of its original amplitude digitized into 8-bit quantization and recorded on tape. On playback that 8-bit signal was converted back to analog and then expanded. They used dbx companding for that soundtrack. So no I ate and 8 mm and VHS and even the PCM soundtrack on 8mm does not sound that's good as digital audio tape.
@amatorev
2 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids interesting ! that is, the sound of video 8, Hi8 sounds as warm as on an audio cassette and if so what is the best sound of video8, Hi8 or a simple audio cassette that we listen to music?
@markmarkofkane8167
2 жыл бұрын
What's NFF? I missed it if you mentioned it. Edit: never mind. :)
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
No fault found.
@enricoself2256
2 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids not sure why but the acronym we use at work is NTF no trouble found ...
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
@@enricoself2256 FOK is the one we use at work now. Found OK.
@markanderson350
2 жыл бұрын
You need more stuff to break. An extension cord is not exciting enough.
@gavincurtis
2 жыл бұрын
That tape preload is like the “instant on” of the early tube TV sets. Shortens the life of everything for instant action. Neat if they made that preload feature selectable option.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Tape needs to be loaded so timecode can be read. Can't read time code if tape is unloaded. Time code, index signals ect. It is a 90' wrap which doesn't put that much stress on tape unlike VCR which was 180 and 210 for 8mm. Vhsc 270'
@750kv8
2 жыл бұрын
On VHS and other analog tape formats its was probably silly.
@MikinessAnalog
2 жыл бұрын
I really can not stand those mechanisms made for impatient people LOL, the ones that preload tape for the sole purpose of "instant play". (audio & video) It dirties the heads faster and as you said, it causes more tape wear.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Has to stay loaded to read time code on tape
@MikinessAnalog
2 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids Logical, leads me to think the same is also true for the "control" track on VCRs.
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
@@MikinessAnalog Control track was used to sync the heads. 1 pulse at the start of the 'a' field. More advanced video recorders 8mm, hi8, digital 8 and DV did not use a control track and neither did dat. They have tracking signals recorded by the rotating heads.
@sweaous5738
2 жыл бұрын
Hello mr, i was wondering if u deleted the vid where you teach us how to replace a group of caps on a old camcorder motherboard cuz I can't find it anymore?? Plz help
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
No i haven't taken down any videos.
@drsysop
2 жыл бұрын
I forgot are DATs are one sided or can you flip them like cassettes?
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Single side like a video tape
@tacofortgens3471
6 ай бұрын
@@12voltvids philips video2000 was both sides like regular cassette tapes
@12voltvids
6 ай бұрын
@@tacofortgens3471 and it looked like crap
@tacofortgens3471
3 ай бұрын
@@12voltvids true that..
@Raptor50aus
2 жыл бұрын
NFF comes with a $50 charge :)
@12voltvids
2 жыл бұрын
Good luck collecting.
@zulkarnin
2 жыл бұрын
This machine uses tascam transport, that have the most durable heads, this machine needs a total recap in order to work properly.
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