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RE: teac/tascam 44

That's a shotgun/overkill approach which may or may not fix the problem.

Secondly, I would never, ever, never, intentionally put crayon wax on my tape deck heads!! At the very least, that results in thoroughly cleaning all of the following tape path components. The record or playback head is either "in whack" or "out of whack". "Out of whack" may have happened recently, or hundreds of hours ago, or the head isn't nailed down in position and it's happened slowly over a period of time as the head slowly moved.

In any of those scenarios, a visual check along with a test tape check will reveal the current status. No need to put wax on anything.

It DOES make sense to check the head alignment. Pulling the heads for re-lapping and replacing playback amp capacitors doesn't. It could be as simple as a gain or attenuation adjustment in a playback amp card.

Find the problem first, then fix IT.

:)



Edits: 03/20/14

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