After a few weeks off we're visiting this monster in the living room again. We shotgunned all of the ICs and sockets and the transport seems to be rock solid in all speeds. Now we're having trouble trying to get our tape recorder to record.

Audio passes through when the channel is on Input ...

I'mma ride this pony.

Cleaning every single pin of every single molex connector and Cinch Jones connector with alcohol, then Caig DeOxit, then Caig PreservIt makes shit work better. The takup reel now takes up tape.

Tell me more about this. Did you take out each Molex connection and swab it with alcohol? How did you ...

Thanks, danielruder, for the Chris Mara tip. I've now got a manual on the way for my JH-110A-8 and an answer to the weird naming of my two newest machines. The second label on each of them, JH-110T, is for their upgraded transports. So the audio cards for them are all different but the transport ...

I've worked with Chris Mara a few times. Didn't know he was an MCI guy too. I'll give him a call in the morning. In the meantime, I may have made my "problem" either better or worse. To supplement my almost-functioning JH-110A-8 I acquired tonight two new 2-track machines. They both have two ...

Found the blinky switches and replaced all of the red opamp sockets with new good ones. Still don't have a service manual. Does anyone in Minneapolis or Chicago have one I could borrow for a week tops? I'd be happy to pay shipping both ways and even kick you a few bucks. I'd love to quit swearing at ...

I'm the proud new poppa of an MCI JH110A 1" 8-track. My friend and I bought it from a television station engineer who has had it in his basement for a few years.

Where it was:
Cosmetically pretty clean
FF & RW work "fine"
PLAY feeds tape but the takeup reel doesn't pick it up. Just pukes it ...

For those of you in bands doing the free digital download with vinyl purchase thing, who/how has the infrastructure set up? I'm on the brink of doing this (vinyl is being manufactured right now) but I don't know if I want to pay a web developer to write the database from scratch or if there's a ...

Checking your best friend into a 30-day treatment program and your girlfriend's dad passing away both on the same day. Oh, and it is your 25th birthday.

Last week sucked.

At this point I don't think you get work engineering by being offered an engineering job. You get work engineering by establishing relationships with musicians that want you to record them. That's a big difference. It isn't like walking into McDonalds and selling hamburgers to folks who just want ...