Re: [ARSCLIST] Need help with a Revox A77 [?] in Chicago

[Paul Tyler <ptyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dumb answer #1:  I clean them after  every hour or two
of playing time.

Dumb answer #2:  I don't know, but alignment is  the
kind of smart word I was looking for..

Dumb answer#3: I was very careful 25 years ago to
splice  on white and yellow leader with the markings
on the outside so I wouldn't ever make that dumb
istake.

Thanks.

--- David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dumb question #1: Have you cleaned the heads?
> 
> Dumb question #2: Did Herr Gefixmann replace the
> heads? May be just an 
> alignmnent problem.
> 
> Dumb question #3: Any chance that the tapes (or some
> of them) are being 
> threaded with the oxide out instead of in?
> 
> dl
> 
> Paul Tyler wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm hoping someone can help an electronic
> ignoramus.  Here's the story.  I have a hundred and
> fifty open reel tapes I recorded twenty five years
> ago that I've been trying to digitize.  Most are
> field recordings I made on a Nagra on loan from the
> American Folklife Center or on a Revox B77 (I'm
> unsure of the exact model number) owned by a then
> brand new public radio station in Fort Wayne.  The
> restof the tapes are the 26 one-hour radio shows I
> produced using my field recordings.  After that gig
> ran it's course, I was left with the tapes and no
> machine.  The original field recordings are in the
> Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University,
> and what I have are earliest copies dubbed on the
> ATM's Ampex decks.
> > 
> > Fast forward twenty years and I bought a Revox A77
> on eBay and started dubbing my field tapes in my
> spare time.  Somewhere along the way my preschool
> daughter filched a light bulb out the Revox--I don't
> know what you call it but it was for a light
> activated shutoff.  I took the Revox to 20th Century
> Stereo on the north side.  The elderly
> European-accented proprietor ended doing $300 worth
> of repairs and adjustments.  This was two years ago,
> and I'm just now getting back to dubbing my tapes.  
> > 
> > But they don't sound the same.  I don't have the
> technical vocabulary to describe the sound
> difference.  The clarity is gone.  It sounds like my
> recordings have gone through some sort of filter
> that distances the sound.  Another description:  
> > the loss of clarity sounds like what happens when
> you dub cassettes on cheap portable decks from 1980.
> > 
> > Can anybody offer any help?   Like what kind of
> words I should use if I take it back to the old
> German guy.  Or do you know any other good repairman
> (or woman) in the Chicago area I could consult. 
> > 
> > Thank you
> > Paul Tyler
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> > 
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