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Hey
I bought a vintage tube tape echo on e-bay. It arrived yesterday. I
brought it home and it just sounded awesome. For a bout an hour.
Then I started to notice the sound kindof getting flangey/chorusy.
Then the echo started sounding like "bluuurp." Finally it stopped
echoing entirely. I checked and everything still seemed threaded
correctly, the capstain (sp? you know the spinny thing next to the
rubber roller) was still spinning but the tape itself was no longer
advancing.
I'm something of a newbie when it comes to tape delays (I haven't
owned one in twenty years). What do I need to do? Replace the tape?
Clean the heads? Throw chicken bones and invoke voodon spirits?
Whatcha think?
Yours,
Larry Chandler
clean the heads and everything the tape touches with 99% denatured
alcohol (not the pinch roller though, use fantastic or 409 on this ),
and change the tape. It sounds like the tape is sticking. If this
doesn't solve the problem, you should get it serviced by an
experienced repair guy - It's an old piece so you'll have to get it
serviced sooner or later.
--- In , "surfnoir2003"
<lmchandler@c...> wrote:
> Hey
>
> I bought a vintage tube tape echo on e-bay. It arrived yesterday. I
> brought it home and it just sounded awesome. For a bout an hour.
>
> Then I started to notice the sound kindof getting flangey/chorusy.
> Then the echo started sounding like "bluuurp." Finally it stopped
> echoing entirely. I checked and everything still seemed threaded
> correctly, the capstain (sp? you know the spinny thing next to the
> rubber roller) was still spinning but the tape itself was no longer
> advancing.
>
> I'm something of a newbie when it comes to tape delays (I haven't
> owned one in twenty years). What do I need to do? Replace the tape?
> Clean the heads? Throw chicken bones and invoke voodon spirits?
>
> Whatcha think?
>
> Yours,
> Larry Chandler
I would start off with a fresh tape and clean heads. Who knows when either has
been done.
