After my uncle passed away, one of the many items I received was his trusty Sony TC-377 reel-to-reel deck and about a four foot tall stack of tapes.
Today I finally got the time to pull it out and try it and after figuring out what each knob did I hooked up my cd player, grabbed a blank reel of tape and did a test recording using Gershon Kingsley's Music to moog by CD.
When the cd ended I rewound the tape, re-threaded it and turned the knob to play.
Almost as soon as the music started to play I noticed that it was playing back slower than normal. I then also noticed that the right channel was silent.
First thing I did was remove the reel, clean the heads and record a 20 second clip I knew was stereo. When I played it back it was still slow but the right channel was STILL silent.
I switched off the left channel and cranked up the amp to hear if anything was coming from the right. It was faint, but it was there...Or I was just getting stray noise from the left.
Then my amp overloaded and kicked out. I forgot that there was a leakage problem and going too high would kick the amp out and reset itself (I need to retune the radio).
Anyways, excluding the amp issues, What's going on?
I don't dare want to open the player up due to all the mechanical parts inside just screaming to be knocked out of adjustment and visually the heads look okay.
Today I finally got the time to pull it out and try it and after figuring out what each knob did I hooked up my cd player, grabbed a blank reel of tape and did a test recording using Gershon Kingsley's Music to moog by CD.
When the cd ended I rewound the tape, re-threaded it and turned the knob to play.
Almost as soon as the music started to play I noticed that it was playing back slower than normal. I then also noticed that the right channel was silent.
First thing I did was remove the reel, clean the heads and record a 20 second clip I knew was stereo. When I played it back it was still slow but the right channel was STILL silent.
I switched off the left channel and cranked up the amp to hear if anything was coming from the right. It was faint, but it was there...Or I was just getting stray noise from the left.
Then my amp overloaded and kicked out. I forgot that there was a leakage problem and going too high would kick the amp out and reset itself (I need to retune the radio).
Anyways, excluding the amp issues, What's going on?
I don't dare want to open the player up due to all the mechanical parts inside just screaming to be knocked out of adjustment and visually the heads look okay.
<----Computer says I need more beer.
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