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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Revox G38 line in amplifier bypass mod?

« on: June 01, 2015, 07:38:33 AM »

hI Charles, THANKS FOR GETTING BACK TO ME, oops sorry, caps lock!
I think I sent you an EMail a while back regarding your article, I would love to read it. I shall PM you my EMail address.

At present I am using the diode input which seems to have tamed things down a bit, the Revox needs a lot of work, one track (1) seems to have some low down mechanical noise, I really gave the heads a good clean which seems to have helped but not totally eliminated it.
I also have a lot of tape hiss.
When I got it the switches and pots were really dirty which gave me all sorts of problems, I also think the motors could be doing with a rebuild, the capstan motor is noisy, its not squealing out fore help but its got a quiet rumble, I don't think they left the factory like this.
And the tape counter doesn't work.
But apart from all this its a lovely machine and worth putting a little effort into to get it back up to spec.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Greening the Revox G36 Article

« on: June 01, 2015, 07:26:04 AM »

Hi Charles, you don't still have this article do you?

Rob.

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Revox G38 line in amplifier bypass mod?

« on: April 29, 2015, 07:48:37 AM »

Hi, I have a Revox g36. When I record from my HiFi through any input (radio/diode) it would seem the input is too loud and I need to turn the levels way down, something about the Revox needing 50 Mv and line out from my amp being closer to one volt? I don't know if I've got that right but you get the idea?

Anyhow I keep reading about a bypass mod on the input amplifier so something like that but I have no idea how to go about it. I did find a step by step but I think it was for the older f36, cant remember now but I cant find the web page again anyway.

Has anyone ever done this modification?