I will once I get some time, but yes, I'm only able to get the correct audio when lifting the pinch roller mechanism up to the tape. Otherwise it is all distorted audio.
Bumping this as this is the issue I currently have with my new-to-me Technics M63.
video below...turn on sound
https://i.imgur.com/7XCxj0v.mp4
I have no real experience in fixing anything like this, so I'm mostly going in blind, but I have been watching a lot of various Youtube repair videos.
Hello all...it's been a while since I posted.
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced / Axis : Bold As Love
Barclay – 80 581/582, ~1975
French two-fer
Are You Experienced is Mono
Artwork is by Moebius
Pressed at C.I.D.I.S.
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Factory – FACT 10 40, 1979/2019
40th Anniversary - Ruby Red vinyl
Repress of 2015 Remaster (which was cut from the 2007 remasters)
Cut by Frank Arkwright
Pressed at Optimal
Gordon Lightfoot – Sit Down Young Stranger
Reprise Records – RS 6392, 1970
First cover / Original Title - was later renamed "If You Could Read My Mind"
Cut at Artisan
Pressed at Columbia, Santa Maria
The Electric Prunes – The Electric Prunes
Reprise Records – R 6248, 1967
Mono
Misprint on rear sleeve with incorrect tracklist order
Pressed at Columbia, Santa Maria
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Month Celebration Copy
Atlantic – PR 165, 1971
Promo-only Compilation
Cut by George Piros at Atlantic
Pressed at Presswell
Howard Shore – The Silence Of The Lambs (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Mondo – Mond-141, 1991/2019
Yellow And Black Swirl With White Splatter - "Moth" variant
Pressed at GZ
Got this about 7 years ago at a Goodwill for a buck...still sealed. I opened it a year later. Glad that it wasn't warped at all.
Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty – Chronicle - The 20 Greatest Hits
Fantasy – CCR-2, 1976/1980's
1980's reissue
Cut by George Horn
Pressed at...
Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
Columbia – C2S 841, 1966
This is an original pressing with the Claudia Cardinale photo in the gatefold, which was removed in later pressings.
Pressed at Columbia, Pitman
Bauhaus – The Sky's Gone Out
Beggars Banquet – BEGA 42, 1982
Original UK pressing - with bonus album "Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape"
Pressed at WEA Records, West Drayton