rocknroller
Active Member
Have this reel play but it won't record the audio in record mode, though does erase what is previously on the tape. Meters shows audio (when viewing source) The record head has 2 two wire pairs going to it. There is audio on one wire of each pair. I don't know what the other wire of each pair is used for and the service manual (a tc-377 model which apparently has the same innards) was no help to me. Seems unlikely that the record head itself went bad on both channels. More likely it's not being properly "turned on" (guessing in some fashion via the other two wires that go to it) though I'm not clear what to look for. Thoughts/things to check?