Jaak said this forum could be used for any and all music making and analog related stuff, so I’ll post this here in hopes someone has a fix.
I purchased a PortaStudio MF-P01 last week from my local Bookmans(do you guys have these around?). The audio entering the device comes through normally, and records onto the tape like it should. But when I attempt to play back the tape audio it isn’t retrieving it from the tape. If I put the recorded tape into my other deck and check that the audio has been recorded it’s there, so I know it’s the tape playback function on the head that’s not working.
Any kind of guidance on what might be going wrong or how I could fix/replace the record/playback head would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to anyone that responds, and thank you Jaak for allowing this forum to be for other things related to music.