Tascam DA40 DAT No Record Plays fine. Part 2 of a unit I started on 2 years ago

[@ricfair9919]

WOW I thought you were stuck on this repair. Great to see it repaired and working. Nicely made unit. Great video. Thinking about buying one...

[@Prattvw91]

I just bought one of these Tascam DA-40 units at a thrift store for $20 and it needed a tiny belt under the circuit board for the mechanism I found the smallest belt from a pack of belts that I had, but it was still a little big. So I cut a section out of the belt and superglued the ends together and the eject mechanism goes in and out now. Now I just need a DAT tape! I ordered one on eBay so I’ll do further testing once I get the tape!

[@drteeth7054]

Even watching Dave work on something as complex as this very satisfying. Dave, as you do not have a schematic, let your cat have a look at the 'board and do a CAT-scan!

[@markgallagher0000]

your an inspiring wizard,unreal how your mind works it out,good job.wish you lived near me,Bulgaria is along walk,cheers mk

[@paulb4uk]

Quality unit I almost bought a Sony day recorder from our local charity shop it was £40 UK but got out off but cost of tapes and that it uses a head drum a bit like a VCR .I do have a £19 eBay special 3 head Sony deck to repair needs caps belts and some soldering to the motor connector hoping to get it going ,I bought a cheap Sony deck for 99p previous and all components are on the front panel not even sure it is worth the cost of a belt but I guess I will fix it , another superb repair by yourself.

[@12voltvids]

Yes head drum like a VCR but with 90' wrap. VCR used 180 and 8mm camera 210' which causes much higher head wear. I have a couple hundred dat tapes myself. These machines are incredibly difficult to troubleshoot

[@glenngoodale1709]

One of your top videos ..... good teaching

[@markanderson350]

Great job. Seems the thicker the chip, the more likely they crack the solder. That is a cool machine!

[@dantx4545]

Another great video! I don't get the thumbs down this is a very detailed and well spoken video Thanks Dave!

[@markmarkofkane8167]

There are those that get their kicks putting down others. It's sad. Those are the thumbs down people.

[@12voltvids]

I was going to say the same think. The same type that make prank phone calls and play recordings over and over. I had one of those that was spoofing my number. Unfortunately he got a few digits wrong and was actually calling someone else and making my public number show on the phone display. I got a call from an angry guy asking me what my problem was for calling him. I explained that it was some mentally disturbed person that things he was calling my cell, but was off by a few digits, and was making my business number appear on his display, and to just block the number and he would not get any more calls from this idiot.

[@richardhz-oi8px]

Double cat in this intro, so cute!

[@12voltvids]

The cat may some day become a jump scare!

[@AThreeDogNight]

Nice repair Dave, thank you. Also had a cat who thought that she was a dog, strange cat indeed.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

This seems to be a common problem with alot of electronics. Been watching alot of videos from another repair guy and in his field there are alot of cracked through hole joints. Nice to find it so fast.

[@12voltvids]

Flat pack cracking is very common too. It is the lead free shit solder.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@12voltvids Yep sure is. As if premature death is better for the environment than properly disposed lead.

[@12voltvids]

@@rimmersbryggeri Got to keep the economy going right. I watched a disturbing documentary on KZbin about electronic recycling and how it is really done. Shipped to India where young men mostly take apart and separate components. Use blow torches to remove components from circuit boards with no protective equipment. Breathing all that smoke form burning plastic, fiberglass and flame retardants on the pcboards. Is this really better for the environment? It is worth watching as it will make you sick when you see the conditions these people work in. No they don't dispose of your lead either they just dump it on the ground. Remember much of the stuff they are tearing down still has lead, cadmium, magnesium and dozens of other hazardous substances in them that if that work was done here the workers would be in full hazmat suits.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@12voltvids They have crafty guys over there that are prepared to repair stuff though so we could just hope that's what is being done. Judging by what I find in the electronics dump here in sweden most stuff is thrown away way before it's time and can be fixed with a cheap iron some caps and juicy lead solder and live on for another generation.

[@FeCr3]

A very interesting repair session again!

[@zx8401ztv]

Smashing repair :-D Lucky that you applied pressure and the fault changed, i'ts not always obvious with some chips, the shadows can trick the eye. I've had to use a needle to wobble pins on some chips. Tiny cracks in the pcb can be a bloody nightmare to find as well :-(.

[@12voltvids]

I know this only too well. In this case pressing on the chip restored operation. It was literally the first one I tried after confirming that the AD converter was working, and therefore the clock was running.

[@skwergs]

Dave... I do have a Service Manual for the DA40... perhaps it's too late... but happy to send it over... at least for your archives... ;)

[@danmackintosh6325]

Haha brilliant cats, one of ours also likes to play fetch. Strangely he too chews plastic such as audio/video tape and plastic wrappers etc... At least he's more or less out of his wire biting habits though, that one was just dangerous. Nice fix too (the repair always becomes secondary to the cats I find, otherwise they get jealous!) good spot on the cracked solder. Like zx8401 said, sometimes a needle or toothpick is what I've used to root out a loose pin on those flatpack chips, either that or just using a blade tip and drag-soldering to reflow the whole thing. (I tend to think if one or two have cracked, the whole thing could use stress-relieving)

[@12voltvids]

I did re solder the entire chip. I use a fine tip point, and just touch up each pin. I know drag soldering works, but I have had bridges that way. When I learned I did it with a conical ultra fine tip and plenty of flux.

[@danmackintosh6325]

Yep, if I'd been focussed on the repair not the cats I'd have noticed the first time round!

[@OldMatesBackyardTech]

G'day, found this channel and gotta say I love it. Spent the past few days since subscribing watching heaps of your videos. I had two sony pro-audio rack-mount DAT systems of which both are stuffed. Would rather have the TASCAM systems over the sony any day

[@nickfatsis9607]

That little belt looks the same as the DA-30Mkii, the transport looks similar.

[@abc-ni9uw]

I watched this video upside down orientation. I enjoyed it

[@jerryspann8713]

I'm just about 3 minutes into the video, and my guess is a dead section on the power supply. Maybe bad solder connections. Something to do with the voltage regulator. Just a guess. I will continue to watch and see.

[@12voltvids]

Not even close. Power supply is fine.

[@cedarstuff]

Great machine, brilliant video, thanks!

[@antraciet]

Great repair!

[@12voltvids]

Thanks. I am pretty happy right now.

[@Prattvw91]

Finally got a DAT tape for my DA-40 and a very strange issue is happening. I can only hear music play when i turn the jog forward to >>1. also makes sounds jogging to faster speeds, but if you let play as normal, no sound. Record input works and monitors. Display completely works. I Dunno.

[@12voltvids]

Could be worn heads. Ber too high mute audio. Could be bad caps in head preamp. I would start with the preamp caps.

[@toddanonymous5295]

This is the first I have heard of a CAT machine ( Cat Audio Tape ). Or maybe the poor cat has an iron deficiency :)

[@ltshering]

really enjoyed sir ,

[@timbeck7436]

Schematic, shematic...LoL. Your trouble shooting and following the signal path were spot. Nice job.

[@MarceloJavierMazaLuparia]

you think your cat has issues? Mine likes to chew the rubber handles of my tools. Specially my wire cutter and screwdrivers. And the rubber foam of my knickers and sandals... Crazy cat.

[@Bswong74]

My DA-40 if I make recording looks normally in display indicator with auto Id, track and time following from cd number. But in playback no sound. I do few times manually cleaning and tape cleaning, but same with no sound / no playback indicator display. Would you please help me solve this problem, thanks.

[@therealjammit]

I've had pretty good luck using o-rings from the hardware store as belts.

[@12voltvids]

I have done that as well, but not on one of these. Tried that, too much tension

[@karlkirven8174]

Please do more videos on Tascam Dat mashines DA 60 , DA 30 mkll

[@yuritovbin8953]

The rightmost ribbon cable may not be sitting properly.

[@royalemuzikproductionz]

Hi there nice video. I’ve just paid for one on eBay . How do you verify how much more time is on the drum for recording life as per what you said. Cheers

[@electroniquepassion]

Thank

[@isettech]

Dat was the baby knifed by the industry with serial copy protection which made it worthless for studio editing and the filter for the copy protection was not transparent. Add on the per tape cost with royalties and this was passed on by almost everyone. When I was station engineer for a radio station, they bought and installed one in the main studio, but never had more than one tape to fit it, so it was never used. A good audio interface and DAW on a PC quickly replaced this dead baby. Winamp for random access playback not only whipped the lama's A@@, it whipped the DAT in the studio. For the younger generation, Winamp was the mainstream predecessor to iTunes as the PC player of choice. Napster was only popular because of the file transfer function. It was OK as a player but not welcome in a radio station due to copyright issues and low quality files.

[@12voltvids]

Low quality? Dat is uncompressed and serial copy is not an issue with professional decks such as the tascam. Dat was the industry standard for recording studios for 20 years. Winamp wasn't all that. Buggy as hell. I built a radio station automation system based on zararadio. I use that at home to play my music files. Bulletproof. I have had engineering gigs over the years. Built a community radio station based on zararadio. Everything on a laptop basically. Output of the PC into transmitter. Microphones into mixer into computer. Operator can talk over, cue tracks, dump in commercials, even go full auto with no operator with full remote satellite news punch in at preset times. And thay is with the free version. I like it because I can set the limiter and it will mix everything and keep the levels constant which is great when running it for background music. Dat did have a good run, and now it is a collectors format like reel to reel.

[@isettech]

@@12voltvids The professional models were expensive and difficult to buy. Only larger studios purchased them. Many radio stations had them but didn't use them as the blank tapes were very expensive. The station I worked for had One even though they had 3 studios, and the tapes they owned was One. It was literally never used. Not sure if it was the model that supported non serial copy protection as they didn't use it and only had the one machine. They used PC's and a network server for the sponsor messages and station ID along with Carts. News was still produced on Reel to Reel. Cleaned the reel to reel and cart machines twice a week and never touched the DAT.

[@12voltvids]

@@isettech Tapes were not that expensive. Computer DAT tapes worked great and they were relatively inexpensive. I bought a box of 10 tapes for 30.00

[@wdavem]

I wonder if the audio tapes were expensive because of a license fee!? I remember seeing more then one or two older looking ones in a radio station in 2007. I can't recall if they were broadcasting off of them but they were still running carts. Things like the DAT implementation of serial copy protection (also analog video protection on computer outputs) have prevented me from running my own dam material on my own equipment for production so I know how ridiculous that is.

[@12voltvids]

@@wdavem Dat tapes were not that expensive. VHS video tapes were 50.00 in 1979 and still 40 in 1982. 2 hour dat tapes were 8 bucks. These are metal tapes. A metal 90 minute cassette tape cost about the same. When I first got recordable cd in the mid 90s a 2x burner was 1300.00 and blank disks 20 each and the burn failure rate was 40%. Serial copy was never an issue. For those that couldn't have it, there were professional versions like this that has no serial copy. That was on the consumer decks only.

[@cubinn149]

Awsome deck

[@cubinn149]

Aww kitty came to visit

[@alexispieltin9379]

Nice video and another great job! These TASCAM machines look really pro with all these SCMS options and counter modes, but DAT always share the same base schematic. Enter a good detective and with the help of "the hand of God", no long mystery there! For many "pro" brands, documentations are scarce, and that's even worst with DAT, as the production period was limited. It can help to have a look in the general public counterpart brand, but I doubt TEAC has produced more than 2 or 3 models. And this is not a general rule, as components or boards you find in a Revox are not necessary exact copies of their Studer pro versions (looking only the same!). These DATs can share a tape transport mechanism but use different electronics... I suppose next step is you're at the supply board solders before selling it, cause even with the low head count, it's colour is somehow indicating a large number of ON time, and the next thing to fail are generally regulators or high power transistors solders. A quick look at the main electrolytics (value, ESR), replacing a few audio caps (generally not necessary on these quality machines), and this DAT will certainly become the next dream of an audio fan or collector. Some scratches could possibly be attenuated, but I bet these won't scare the lucky next owner. Perhaps your cat has to be considered a connoisseur, that devours analog supports instead of digital ones. I hope you don't have too many precious 15ips masters to protect from it's feline appetite for good sound! Or maybe we have to document for a new cat behavior. You've already seen the one that thinks he's a dog, maybe the next thinks he's a reel'to'reel tape deck (or shredder😒). Anyway, you can try citrus essential oil to avoid any further damages or spent tape (cats hate citrus smells).

[@12voltvids]

Well DAT was around for about 20 years, so there were lots of them produced. The vast majority of them were professional bulletproof decks like this one. Designed for hard use by professionals. These ones are actually quite well built, even though some like Sony. Sony had some good mechanisms and also some garbage ones.

[@Koverasx]

Hi 12voltsvid, I have a Yamaha DTR2 with the same problem I think. When it loads cassette, after 5 seconds it returns it. Microswitch which recognize cassette is Ok, belts look ok. What do you think about it? Where could be a problem?

[@Luke-san]

What a cool machine! Damn, those scratches on the top of that front. Shouldn't it be worth doing a rattle can spray?

[@coreyoilar6260]

Great video! I have the same problem but opposite. Mine will record, but it won't play anything unless I hold the seek dial in the forward position to at least 1x, then I can hear it and everything appears normal, but without holding the seek dial forward, it won't play any audio even though the tape is moving normally. I opened it up and cleaned the heads, but that's about all I could find. Everything else is clean. I blew down the inside with compressed air anyway, but it didn't really need it. Any thoughts?

[@12voltvids]

Caps in the head preamp. Signal should be distorted and CRC data is not being decoded correctly. When you're in search mode it turns off the air correction and muting that's why you hear sound.

[@Synthematix]

Fun things to fix and play about with, but do i miss all this mechanical stuff and spaghetti wiring, hell no.

[@Michael-w8v]

Whoa. That is pretty rare.

[@bones007able]

Don't tell me... the lead free solder ? I would never attempt to resolder these small SMT type chips... I would have solder bridges galore...

[@H2Oredfirefox]

I know it sounds stupid but I've always wondered what that stuff is for

[@12voltvids]

What DAT? Digital audio tape was originally brought to market to replace the cassette tape. To improve the sound quality to CD quality or better. (Dat can record 44.1 and 48khz sample rate where as CD is 44.1). Dat was first developed in early 80s but was delayed to get to market for a few years while the record companies battled to keep it off the market as they were concerned with piracy. The manufactures were planning on having car and Walkman models to completely replace analog cassette as cassettes sound like crap. Philip's introduced dcc at about the same time, again held up in the courts for same reason. The Philips used a tape the same size as compact cassette (dcc stood for digital compact cassette) and some thought it would be the format winner because the deck could also play analog cassettes but not record analog. Dcc used compression similar to mp3 fixed at 128k so the sound was not as good. That format failed miserably. Dat was adopted by audiophiles and other high end users. It was also adopted by musicians for home studios and major recording studios to mix the master 2 channel tapes and the 2 channel safety copies which made their way to the CD pressing plants for transcription to CD. Radio and TV stations also adopted dat for production and automation. This all came to an end in 2007 when production of dat recorders ended. Now they are collected by audiophiles and "dat heads" whom are folks with huge collections of dat bootlegs. Because there were many very small dat portables there are many concert bootlegs floating around of high quality and these people copy and trade these copies. Because they are all digital the 100th generation dub is the same as the original. So there are still people that collect these. Dinosaurs. I use mine for archinving. I get musicians and vocalists that bring me their bring me tapes they did in the studio to get transferred to USB or CD because most of the studios have now pulled their dat stuff and they have tapes that have not been archived.

[@H2Oredfirefox]

@@12voltvids Sorry I meant the flux I was always wondering wot-it actually does that liquid that you put onto the chip itself before your soldering

[@12voltvids]

@@H2Oredfirefox Rosin flux cleans the leads of the components and makes the solder stick to the pins. It also helps reduce solder bridging. It is not conductive or corrosive so other then for aesthetics there is no reason to wash it off. Some "know it all's" and there are plenty here on youtube will argue this, but the fact is that it isn't necessary to remove it. The only real reason to do so is so you can inspect the work under a magnifying glass. That is the only reason I cleaned it off here was so I could inspect, not to keep the trolls in check because the trolls will thumb down my videos no matter what.

[@paulmon4077]

Hi, thanks so much for this video (I watch all of them!!). I was hoping you could bring this one back to your workbench again and finally repair it. I love this deck, I have 2 of them (also repaired them). I have the service manual for the DA-40, with all the schematics, if you want I can email it to you. Let me know.

[@12voltvids]

That would be great. Always good to have manuals.

[@2000shutdown]

@@12voltvids Hi, i wonder if you can send it to me also? BR Peter

[@zofo500]

Really nice work. What was the tune you ejected at the beginning of this.

[@12voltvids]

Which one? Time please and I will try to recall as there was a few different pieces played.

[@zofo500]

6:28 thank you

[@12voltvids]

@@zofo500 That would be Mindi Abair track is Lucy's. Yes I do have a very large library of music.

[@zofo500]

@@12voltvids

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

I have the pdf manual for this model. Let me know if you need it and I will upload it.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Like your MGM lion, :) Sounds cute how your cat plays fetch. Enjoy your videos. I would like a DAT deck. Maybe someday. From eBay maybe. Edit again: I noticed the crystals. Those are the clocks, right?

[@12voltvids]

Yes the crystals are for the clocks. Since it can operate at 48, 44.1 and 32khz there are 3 crystals. That sets the sampling frequency for the A/D converter, as these units have a very good A/D converter. I looked it up and it was something like 64x over sampled. Everybody likes the cat. She initially made an appearance on I think it was part 2 of my 6L6 tube amp build, but has made it into the opening on many videos because everyone likes it. I probably have more footage of her being chatty that could find their way into future logos. I am trying to get shots of the other cats doing the same so I can mix it up. I have 4.

[@JacGoudsmit]

Everytime I see you repair a DAT recorder I want to go to eBay to buy one because they're just so sexy and they sound so good. But then I realize I have nothing that I want to record on it and no place to set it up ;-)

[@12voltvids]

DAT recorders are more for the hard core DAT heads out there. They have collections of DAT tapes, many very rare bootlegs ect that they want to listen to, or preserve. That is who is buying these things these days. Also people in the archive business want them so they can play clients tapes. Since DAT was used in the recording industry for so many years, there are plenty of master tapes or safety copies floating around in musicians homes ect. I get on average 2 to 3 DAT tapes a month to transfer to CD. Many musicians had this done by their studio when DAT was still the standard, but any left it too long and when they contact their studio where they did the work they find out that they are now tapeless, and go looking online for transfer facilities. I guarantee when I list this thing it will get snapped up pretty quick.

[@JacGoudsmit]

@@12voltvids I'm more of a DCC head than a DAT head but I don't have a large collection of DCC tapes, I'm mostly interested in the technology and making things work for others that DO have a collection. The great thing about DAT is that there are still so many recorders out there. DCC is getting pretty rare and there were less than 100 types of recorders in total, from probably about 6 manufacturers. So I'm kind of jealous of DAT heads too :-)

[@MrMaxeemum]

Where do you find your service manuals?

[@12voltvids]

I Google. I don't fall for the pay 25 bucks for one though. If I can't find one free I work without one. That may however cause me to abandon the repair. Like this one. If I hadn't found that connection and it had been a failed component I wouldn't have been able to track that down without a schematic so I probably would have walked away and put this away as a pats spare for my other deck, but I got lucky and found the problem so now I have 2 working da40 but will very likely sell this because they go for quite a bit. I just saw one sell on Ebay for 650 Canadian so I know what people are willing to pay, and tjhs one has 237 hours on it now. I will probably put another 5 or 6 hours on it testing and then sell it. 237 hours on drum is nothing. They are good for a minimum of 2000, probably closer to 3000 before head wear becomes an issue. Manual recommends changing at 2000 to maintain the highest quality recording. I have a Panasonic sv 3700 with 5400 hours on the heads and they still play fine but the excessive error light comes on, so they go for a long time.

[@247smith]

Hey 12voltvids I am still trying to figure out what is going on with this da-30 mkii. Wanna have some fun? maybe I could send to you. do you accept a by mail service request? The top board of this Tascam upon closer look appears that someone tried to fix it..and I haven't done anything but remove the board to have a good look at it. Don't know KZbin policies but could I contact you somehow? let me know

[@cubinn149]

Thats funny i had similar problem with my sony ja30es with display sometimes going off it was cracked joints on the ic chip was on the display board

[@prateekbhatia958]

#12voltvids Hi i am from India and i have a national g21 vcr it is not taking CTL puls vcr is like new nothing has worn out. ACTL head is fine but not taking ctl puls what to do please reply

[@stphinkle]

I heard Tascam is a division of Gibson Guitar Company.

[@12voltvids]

Tascam is the professional division of Teac. Notice that the boards say Teac all over them. Gibson held the majority of shares in Teac, but they are run as an independent business, so it is business as usual for teac/tascam.

[@gbowne1]

Add the remote, should be worth a little more

[@12voltvids]

Don't have the remote for either unit.

[@gbowne1]

I had a DA88 that quit. Fixed it with parts from another dead one. Have had plenty of other DAT's in the studio. Panasonic and Sony mostly as well as Minidisc. the remotes turn up on ebay often.

[@12voltvids]

@@gbowne1 As far as DAT decks go I have 2 Tascam DA40, a panasonic sv3700, Sony 75ES and a Sony 680, a TCDD3 sony portable and a Teac DA-p20 portable. 7 DAT machines, 7 Reel to Reel, 4 cassette decks, a couple of turntables. Too much stuff. This DA40 likely will be sold, but I will not give it away. Most of the DAT machines being sold are in need of service and have many, many hours on the drum. My Panasonic 3700 is such a machine, the heads are almost totally worn out, and it has many read errors. Still plays SP tapes fine, but LP is a problem due to the head wear. The 2 Tascam DA40 deck I have one has 239 hours on it and this one 230, but it will likely have a few more when I unload it, because I will extensively test it for 10 - 20 hours of record and play. This one has been totally serviced. When I got it the caps in the preamp were showing signs of trouble so they were replaced. Has a new belt that will be good for awhile, and the electrical fault repaired. So this one should be good for many years. The trouble with DAT is because they no longer make them or spare parts finding a really good one is becoming difficult because many of these professional decks were used in broadcast and have thousands of hours on them. Many radio stations automated to DAT in the mid 80's and through the 90's and ran them the 2000s before hard drive based automation took over. Sure larger stations went to hard drive based first but many mid size and small market stations remained with DAT or reel to reel based. I visited radio station KISM in Bellingham in the mid 80s and made a video of their reel to reel automation (it's on my channel). DAT made more sense when the reel to reel units started wearing out because a single tape would have 2 hours of music, all randomly accessible with fast cueing. They could put all their commercials for the entire days programming on a single tape, so basically 3 of 4 playback machines could handle everything. Back in around 2000 I was working at a premise where a 50KW AM stereo transmitter was located. I took some pictures on my old phone of the inside of the transmitter room but havent been able to find them, but if I do I will share them. They had a solid state 50Kw motorola transmitter which was a rack of a bunch of PA modules, and a big ass tuning network, and an audio processing rack. It had a couple of T1 studio link phone lines a, audio processor with 2 VU meters and the Motorola CQuam exciter. There was also a little mixer, microphone, cassette deck, and a Tascam DA20 DAT player, with a tape cued up ready to go on the air should the studio link fail (dead air detector woud trigger it.) The microphone, mixer and cassette deck presumably so that if there was an emergency, such as an earthquake that took the studio out, someone could go to the transmitter site, and go on the air live. It was pretty cool to get to go in there. Back in those days cell phones has no video capability.

[@stphinkle]

The serial copy management system is now useless. Any PC or Macintosh computer can be used to rip a CD at full quality now to a WAV or FLAC file. Computer drives are also immune to SCMS when it comes to copying CDs as well.

[@12voltvids]

We are not talking about computers. We are talking about DAT tape, and all consumer models had SCMS. The professional models did not.

[@stphinkle]

What I find interesting is that consumer models of DAT drives and CD recorders had SCMS and professional models did not. That made sense from a music industry control of things because the likely buyers of professional models were recording studios, Tv stations, performing arts theaters, movie companies, universities, and school districts. This essentially left the production and mass duplication to select entities and people with a lot of money to spend being an effective copy control. However when the whole MP3 player, copying music to computers and CD Burning at the consumer level took off the ability to protect music content diminished. Now most of the music today is distributed via ITunes, Spotify, Pandora, KZbin, and similar streaming and download services. The same is true for copying things. It is almost like the line between professional and non-professional in terms of devices is getting narrower.

[@12voltvids]

@@stphinkle Consumer models had it because the record companies fought the release of them and went to court to keep dat off the market for consumers. They already had it for studio use. The only way they could sell them was with serial copy managment.

[@catsbyondrepair]

Copy protection is not any good these days you Have a computer you can beat it

[@12voltvids]

@@catsbyondrepair It never stopped anyone hell bent on copying anything. All it did was stop the casual copy by connecting 2 vcrs together. I built a copy guard stripper as soon as the system appeared.

[@ignacioperez8358]

GO TO HIFI ENGINE HAS YOUR SERVICE MANUAL PLEASE CHECK WITH THEM

[@janchristianursuaaguilar7434]

I hate scms tape decks consumer were being ripped off why?

[@12voltvids]

Scms, serial copy management system was a proposal by the manufacturers that was accepted by the recording industry to lift the ban on the sale of the units. Prior to scms the record companies had court orders in place that banned the sale of consumer dat.

[@janchristianursuaaguilar7434]

@@12voltvids that's pretty much a scam tactic to me and smear campaign that can ruin innovation than prevent piracy. Thanks dave.

[@12voltvids]

@@janchristianursuaaguilar7434 The recording industry was worried and considering what happened when mp3 and recordable CD hit it was justified. The entire industry was almost totally wiped out. Used to be a record store in every mall, and huge shops like tower records. Just here we had a&b sound, sam the record man, Kelly's, virgin, and several small stores. Now there is very few around. People don't buy physical media anymore. With iTunes and Google music a fraction of the profits have returned, but piracy took a huge bite out of sales. Who was hurt by this. Mostly it was the artists themself. Today they make most of their money touring and selling merchandise. So yes the record companies were concerned about a device that could make perfect copies. Analog recording devices could not. Incidentally the exact same thing was placed in digital video recorders and DVD recorders. This is what killed DVD recorders. I have several and sure they will record the analog output of my cable box just fine on the regular channels but I can not record from the premium channels like HBO or the rental movies. Those are blocked with a digital signature in the video signal. All blue ray players made since 2012 have a chip inside that if they detect a special inaudable tone in the sound track they will not play. This tone is played in the movie theater to stop people from camcorder recording movies and turning out discs. I have a few bootleg blueray movies that were downloaded. They play fine on my 2008 blueray player. My newer one starts to play and about 30 seconds in, when the tone kicked in at the theater where someone recorded it, a message comes up that says the content I am playing is intended only for a commercial player, not s consumer and playback stops.

[@janchristianursuaaguilar7434]

@@12voltvids the only way for physical media to last forever is to ban all forms of copy protection. here in the philippines, were still using analog tv until 2023 that's why i still record tv programs via tv phone. i think the record labels and artist have fear that consumer rights kicking in and they are money minded that's pretty much an over-exaggeration.

[@12voltvids]

@@janchristianursuaaguilar7434 Lets just say we agree to disagree. If people only copied the record they bought for personal use, to say listen to in their car, or on their portable device there would not be an issue. But they don't, they share with their friends and they share with their friends ect. In the analog world this was not as big an issue because every copy degraded the sound so that after a few generations it was sounding pretty bad. Digital changed all that. A 1 or 0 is always a 1 or 0 regardless of if it is the first generation or the 1000000 copy. Artists are paid for every copy they sell or every legitimate download. This is how they make a living. They live off what it called royalties. Every time a song is played on the radio or streaming service they get paid. It isn't much per play, but it adds up. I know many people in the music industry, and a few glose friends made a living in the music business. One was a studio pianist / keyboardist, another was in award winning rock band and another was the guitarist in another famous band. Even though their fame days was back in the 60's and 70's they still get a cheque every month. My old neighbor was a session man. He went in and played piano, Hammond organ and Harpsichord for bands that needed those instruments and didn't have a member to play, or their member wasn't good enough for the producer to the got on the phone. My neighbour had a session fee. He was paid a flat fee to play on the record, but his contract also got him compensation for every copy of the record that was sold. Unlike the "stars" of the band his contract did not give him royalties for radio play, just physical media sales. Of course this was before digital, the man has been dead since the mid 80s. Drank too much and his liver gave out. So understand that copy protection was not designed to screw with your right to make a copy to use in your car or media player of the day (mini disk) You were always permitted to make a single copy off the original. For that matter you could make 1000 copies off that CD. What you couldn't do was make a compilation tape, or minidisk and then make a copy of that copy in the digital domain. You could make a copy of that disk or tape by using the analog outputs / inputs. Nothing was stopping you from doing that. That analog copy could then be digital copied once again. It was designed to stop people making a perfect copy over and over from copies. So it really didn't stop much, it was more to appease the courts and record companies. If you have ever made a copy using the analog outputs and inputs you will understand that the copy is virtually identical to the original, and even if you did this 50 times you probably would not be able to tell the difference.

[@ignacioperez8358]

I like to buy this one from you Let me know if you would sell it to me.

[@ApolosaCakau]

You bought this deck for $20!? 😮

[@12voltvids]

Yup. Bought 2 of them for 20 bucks each.

[@jamesveach6918]

$30 for belt you must be buying your belts at the wrong place I buy 35 at a time different types and they only cost me $6 a bag and they're good belt

[@12voltvids]

This unit used a very specific size belt that is not available anywhere. And it wasn't the cost of the belt that made it 30.00 it was the fucking shipping and broker charges that drove the price up because the shipper put a declared value on the package. Had they checked commercial sample like everyone else it would have saved the broker charge.

[@davidgriffin79]

If you record at a lower level you're not using optimum bit depth. The noise floor is a function of the bit depth, which for 16 bit audio is -96.3dB before dither. If you then normalise that recording in post production you will raise the noise floor. On speakers probably no big deal, but through headphones could be audible.

[@sreesonjitray5109]

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[@cubinn149]

Oh those whiny music artists and their copyrights its not like your selling their music by having it in a repair video you know it might encourage people to buy the music from them or from online music service