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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari mx5050 reel adjusting discs

« on: August 13, 2010, 07:17:27 PM »

Thanks anyway doc. By the way I love this forum.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari mx5050 reel adjusting discs

« on: August 13, 2010, 12:07:24 PM »

The reels I have are brand new and out of the box and don't appear to be warped, (although they are quantegy so they may be a little old). This is definitely some kind of spacing issue. I think I am going to go down to the rubber/plastic store a little later and see I can find something to make it work temporarily. I am recording on 7" reels right now so I can wait for a proper solution, I just want to eventually be able to record on the 10.5's. Doc, do you have any of these spacers I can buy? Thanks again guys, I really appreciate it.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari mx5050 reel adjusting discs

« on: August 13, 2010, 11:38:12 AM »

Thanks Doc, that is what I was going to try and do. I have another question. The manual says that the spacers go in between the reel and the turntable. Last night I made a spacer that was maybe a tad thick but not too much and it shored things up but now I have some pretty solid tape rubbing going on because the reel is not quite in alignment with the heads. There actually seems to be a good amount of space that I need to shim out there. Is this normal?

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari mx5050 reel adjusting discs

« on: August 13, 2010, 10:43:20 AM »

Thanks for the info guys it is much appreciated. I tried looking for some on ebay and I am thinking that I didn't phrase my search right because I came back with no results. Do you know what the actual technical name for these are? My manual calls them reel adjusting discs. Thanks again.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Otari mx5050 reel adjusting discs

« on: August 13, 2010, 01:12:23 AM »

Does anywhere know where I can get reel adjusting discs (shims) for 10.5" metal reels on my otari mx 5050? If not is there something else that would work? I usually use 7" reels but just got some 10.5" ones and they have a little over an 1/8" of space that needs to be shored up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari mx 50/50 4 track wiring question

« on: July 29, 2010, 01:52:42 PM »

Thanks to another post on here I was able to fix my own problem. I was soldered all the hot wires to the 3 tip on the snake and now everything is up and running beautifully. Thanks everyone.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Otari mx 50/50 4 track wiring question

« on: July 27, 2010, 05:48:56 PM »

Hey Everyone,

I am new here but I have some questions that I am hoping to sort out. I bought my otari mx 50/50 four track a while back and it works great, but I was looking to cut down on all my crazy wiring. Since I have two other DAW machines I work with. I had decided to wire everything through my patch bay so I could easily patch my preamps to different machines and patch different outputs to different mixer channels. Everything works great except I had not hooked the otari up yet. I bought a relatively cheap unbalanced xlr to mono trs 8 channel snake and replaced 4 of the female xlr ends with male ends so I could have a clean direct lines of ins and outs. When I tested them through the otari all kinds of crazy stuff was going on. I would get one input channel going and then as soon as I plugged in anay other snake connection it would die. Also, my female ends going straight into mixer channels was distorted and didn't accurately represent the channels they were supposed (I would hear channel 1 on 4, etc.)

I already know that it is better to go with high quality stuff, but my main question is, in a snake made by a company like pyle or hosa, are the wires all grounded together somewhere inside?
I bought it thinking they would all be independent of each other, but cannot figure out why they affect each other.

Also, could this be because of the the 3 tip hot soldering configuration?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.