Not sure if it's us or the machine.
Here's an idea of what we're experiencing. After completing our mechanical restoration of his Conion C-100F my son and I decided to put deck 1 through it's paces. When recording from a crystal clear aux source to a regular type 1 tape we have no problems. The recording sounds clear, evenly balanced and distortion free.
When recording to a chrome tape with the setting on chrome the left channel is non responsive or dead during playback. Left VU reflects this.
Tonight we tried recording on a new metal tape for the first time. With Tape 1 set to metal the sound quality during playback sucks. Sounds muffled and unclear. There will be a 3-4 second stretch where it sounds great here and there and then it goes right back to crap. When playing a metal tape on the normal setting it sounds much stronger but is still muffled with distortion.
We've always left the rec level button set on auto. Have never tried manual as I'm not sure what the numbers on the rec level knob indicate or how it should be set.
Checked the basic stuff like the felt pads on the tapes and cleaned and demagnetized the heads and capstan again with no improvement.
Any tips, help or suggestions is most welcome!
Here's an idea of what we're experiencing. After completing our mechanical restoration of his Conion C-100F my son and I decided to put deck 1 through it's paces. When recording from a crystal clear aux source to a regular type 1 tape we have no problems. The recording sounds clear, evenly balanced and distortion free.
When recording to a chrome tape with the setting on chrome the left channel is non responsive or dead during playback. Left VU reflects this.
Tonight we tried recording on a new metal tape for the first time. With Tape 1 set to metal the sound quality during playback sucks. Sounds muffled and unclear. There will be a 3-4 second stretch where it sounds great here and there and then it goes right back to crap. When playing a metal tape on the normal setting it sounds much stronger but is still muffled with distortion.
We've always left the rec level button set on auto. Have never tried manual as I'm not sure what the numbers on the rec level knob indicate or how it should be set.
Checked the basic stuff like the felt pads on the tapes and cleaned and demagnetized the heads and capstan again with no improvement.
Any tips, help or suggestions is most welcome!