Oi, that’s my record collection you are talking about there!
I remember going to a bake off at Duvet’s place in the early days of the Wam. His daughter was about 14 at the time. She looked at the box of records I had brought and said “Oh records - do you only listen to dead people?”
my long stood unused eac x10 has sprung into life - sounds great on a bit of classical but the hiss is unbearable - any clues fells? might have to wait for neil diamond to arrive to test out if its the tape but it looks in excellent condition and play fine so suspect its my missing something obvious that a newbie to R2R is missing hence posting on here
plugged it direct into my CD input of the Thomas Mayer amp - does it need a head amp of some kind? volume isn’t too bad its the hissssss that is not right
really liking the sound it makes though so keen to persevere and invest in more tape now I have finally got it up and running
Cleaning is easy enough, cotton buds and IPA, demagging you need something like this:
Plug it in, offer it up to the heads, press the trigger, keep it pressed down as you remove it to at least arms length from the machine, release the trigger.
it might the same here - my aim was to use it for classical as vinyl often isn’t quiet enough (ironically) so hopefully the hiss is the tape or demag/headclean
I saw a 15 ips tape on ebay I really wanted the other day (Dick Gaughan) so I can see why folks end up with several machines