Hey nice video ur so fun to watch. I just recently found one of these off the street. Never worked with tape before, I mostly work in the box. Is there a way to record liek whatever you want to the tape and then run that signal out so you get the tape saturation, that’s really what I’m trying to use it for, do you do that?would you be able to make a video on how to do something liek that. Especially with like getting the sound recorded into your DAW. Or if you know where I might be able to go to find information liek that .Any information helps
Oh awesome this video confirms my suspicions - I have a Hitachi TRQ-701S, and it looks like the AX-50 does indeed share the actual transport/mechanism design with it (along with the Realistic 999B, Hitachi TRQ-730D and TRQ-750D)! So if you ever need to service it again and still have it on hand, the service manuals for any of those models would probably work for the mechanical parts (though the electronics aren't shared). Anyway, the problem was that rubber wheel that you cleaned up. The little arm that keeps falling down is the auto-stop mechanism, if the machine runs out of tape the arm will drop down and cut power to the machine - but your rubber wheel didn't have enough grip, so the big reel on the right wasn't taking up the slack, making the arm fall down and cut power. The arm was behaving exactly as it should, cleaning the idler wheel is what fixed it.
Hey nice video ur so fun to watch. I just recently found one of these off the street. Never worked with tape before, I mostly work in the box. Is there a way to record liek whatever you want to the tape and then run that signal out so you get the tape saturation, that’s really what I’m trying to use it for, do you do that?would you be able to make a video on how to do something liek that. Especially with like getting the sound recorded into your DAW. Or if you know where I might be able to go to find information liek that .Any information helps
Oh awesome this video confirms my suspicions - I have a Hitachi TRQ-701S, and it looks like the AX-50 does indeed share the actual transport/mechanism design with it (along with the Realistic 999B, Hitachi TRQ-730D and TRQ-750D)! So if you ever need to service it again and still have it on hand, the service manuals for any of those models would probably work for the mechanical parts (though the electronics aren't shared).
Anyway, the problem was that rubber wheel that you cleaned up. The little arm that keeps falling down is the auto-stop mechanism, if the machine runs out of tape the arm will drop down and cut power to the machine - but your rubber wheel didn't have enough grip, so the big reel on the right wasn't taking up the slack, making the arm fall down and cut power. The arm was behaving exactly as it should, cleaning the idler wheel is what fixed it.
Hey, whatcha got on tape? Music? I also have a r2r, a pioneer...