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Tape Tech / Re: revox b77mkII

« on: September 17, 2009, 12:16:52 PM »

Hi, here's already some more information:

The recording is straight from the computer through motu interface to the tapemachine.
You don't hear the noise when monitoring, so that probably means, the line amps are not the issue...
the noise is exactly the same on both channels and there's no pops or buzzes.
the noise is more clear when silent parts of a song are recorded and it stays there but you pay less attention to it on the harder parts. It's like the noise is added as soon as a recording is started, and it's always at the same volume, it's a basic noise that comes on the tape as soon as I start recording. I'm going to do a test and record the noise itself, also a basic drumloop maybe, so you can hear the kind of noise.

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Tape Tech / revox b77mkII

« on: September 16, 2009, 01:28:08 PM »

Hi guys,

I know the revox is not really a pro machine, rather consumer semi-pro...
But I have this strange problem which to me seems like something that can be fixed.

There is an issue with noise... it's simple white noise kinda, the important thing is that it's not present when the tape itself is played, it's present as soon as the recording starts.

So as far as my brain can understand all this :-), the playback head etc, are all functioning fine.
This would be on the recording part, maybe noisy amps, recording head ? I have no idea where to start. Also this machine hasn't got a lot of places to tweak anything, as far as I can see, there's no bias control, etc...

Any help would be of course, greatly appreciated, I tried on other general forums but without a lot of luck, this seems like the forum of the "connoiseurs" lol :-)

Kindest regards,

Billy