My go-to DAT machine is a DA-30 MKII, but there are a lot of changes to that model. I've also repaired a couple of DA-45HR decks recently. It would have been interesting to see the FM envelope and the data level stability once you had done the repair, but I quite understand wanting to leave well alone once it was working!
Hey 12volts love ur work man specially repair of vcr i dont get more reply from u but ur video really help me so much.. lots of love from India ♥️ stay blessed
@@gregoryframpton6695 Belts done long ago, also a tip on tapes. Solution for some drop outs, on old DAT tapes, fast forward and rewind before playing or transfer to another format. I bought my DA for 100 bucks. Can't believe what people are asking for cassette and DAT decks on Ebay. 200 bucks for a cassette deck that doesn't function !
Thanks for the awesome vids bro,it is truly valuable. I have just purchased aTascam DA-30 MKII. at an auction here in Hamilton Ontario Canada. this beauty doesnt have a scratch, truly in mint condition. placed a tape in the cartridge and yes... got error #1. probably sat around for years and I will call this a discovery in Touble shooting for sure. Thanks bud Ive subscribed because its a smart thing to do!!
@@12voltvids yes you are correct. Got the cover off, flipped over the deck and bingo!! The belt has expanded in size and is rendered useless. I have already ordered a replacement...thanks for you vids... Keep it up!!!
Super clean unit and well taken care of. GREAT video I was getting worried towards the end. Hope it goes to a good home. Yes they are still high priced.
Excellent job and glad you tracked down the cause of the popping. I watched the first video and actually posted a question with my DA-30 unit where it is tearing the tape. Mine seems to be a mechanical problem, but I would value your opinion on it. Great job and worth the wait for your positive result. Thanks and all the best. Phil NYC Area
I still have one to this day, the only problem I have had is the loading tray O ring perished. Easy to replace. The reason I still have mine is the same, legacy recordings from my studio days. Around 300 DAT tapes with it. Well Done for finding that fault. I'll keep this in mind if it ever happens to mine.
A lot of TASCAM decks are used by recording studios, performing arts theaters, auditoriums, school districts, television stations, universities, and other facilities. Decks like this are typically not for home use. Looks like a piece of higher end equipment.
These were professional studio decks. No copy protection. I use a da40 myself which is much better as it supports both speeds and 3 sample rates. This one single speed. I have found a home for it but still have to negioare a price. He wants it for a song.
@@12voltvids What is ironic about the copy protection on CDs is how easily it can be circumvented today. Most computer CD drives available to home users do not pay any attention to the Serial Copy Management System. CDs can also be ripped an burned with iTunes, Windows Media Player, or other programs. But back then the no copy protection required purchase of professional grade equipment.
I have a DA-60 that sometimes works perfect, and sometimes doesn't play sound. I always see the time and track IDs correctly (so it's clearly reading the tape), but nothing on dB meters and no sound coming out. Sometimes power cycling a few times gets it to start working properly, sometimes not. Happy to pay for your time if you can help get to the bottom of this!
I have a cosmetically nice Kenwood DX-7030 with no remote and several unopened DAT tapes still in the wrappers. I figured these were boat anchors and was going to recycle it. Probably cost more to ship it than it is worth. When CDR's came out I never seen the reason to have it fixed.
Excellent video dave :-D, it would work, it had no choice lol. But what a pain in the butt that was, bloody capacitors yet again!. I was thinking about static on the head drum or faulty earthing on one end of the ch1/ch2 screened cables to the preamp module. I was thinking vcr faults as the deck has a similar head drum system. But no, i was thinking out of my arse :-D I hope the camera problem is a bum card or slightly incompatable brand. Make sure they know that you want it repaired and not swapped for a different model.
Very much like all your videos on DAT machines, because I want to buy 1, but, your videos scare the hell out of me how temperamental these things are. My favorite Line..............It worked last time I used it. As I was told looking to buy a DA30 but was not able to hear because of seller meet in public place, so I declined, just got a bad feeling, needless to say is ad on CL was gone the next day.
Hello I have one of these units. Same gummed up junk in the transport. Cleaned it all out and it worked great however it will not fast rewind or fast forward. I took the take up reel assembly out of the unit and put it back. Now its all messed up. Cant seem to get it working properly. Any tricks on that take up reel assembly? Great video by the way!!
always wanted a DAT when i was young but couldn't afford it. i was a bid audiophile back then, had to have the latest and greatest. even had a full digital walkman with the digital push button tape controls instead of the normal mechanical ones
That's channel 1 or head A on your scope Dave? what about a error rate read of 0% on head A, but 90% on head B or channel 2? what is the channel 2 used for?
Hello great video where do I get a motor for one of these? Rf130 ch Is what it says on the motor but then there’s different RPMs and I don’t know which one is the right one. Thanks
uneasy feeling... So much old electro/mechanical fiddly (and sticky) stuff waiting to fail. That metal guide still seemed to have a slight drag at the very end of its travel. 31:53 Love your scope (I'm just not confident trusting results from the digital scopes). Agree - a service manual would be nice! Did you test ESR on those removed caps? Hope you got it and will have NO MORE TROUBLES after the sale. Great video (as always).
@@tekvax01 I got this one for a song, literally. Was donated by a viewer. Same guy that sent me my Panasonic ct101 1.5" color CRT TV which I ended up buying. Basically cost me about 150 in shipping charges and tax as customs would not believe it was gifted and assessed tax on it.
good day! Thank you for the very detailed videos on the repair of equipment. At your direction, I lubricated and cleaned the tascam da-30. unloading, refueling, it works super. And here's the most unpleasant thing ... when you press play, there is no sound, but when you press the rewind button to play while playing, the sound appears. Please, what could it be? Thanks!
@@12voltvids the tape opers use to give the newbies a cold freon shower, so got completely soaked, and then 10 mins later dry as a bone... I got my share of cold pants surprises when entering the VTR machine room.... seemed all harmless fun at the time!
@@tekvax01 I remember those. Or the cold spray. That was one to wake you up. (spray some cold spray (or the contents of an inverted can of dust off) into a plastic cap, and then dump the contents onto an unsuspecting victim. Wakes them up really quick. Good place was to dump down someone's back when they were falling asleep on the job.
Not an apple fanboy. No Apple products here anymore. I had an ipod3 and was happy. Then they changed the connector and made my expensive dock station speaker system obsolete. They upgraded os that will not run and iTunes won't talk to old os, so I can't update music. None of the streaming apps run becauase they require newer os. Not supported. Sonos is another company i will never own any product from. Another one is tesla. Now you may say, well i can't afford a Tesla. Actually i could. I could walk in and drop cash and buy one today, but it would be the last car I would buy. Other cars i would never own, Mercedes, BMW, and jokeswagon / Audi. 2 of those brands from past bad experience.
@@12voltvids I hear you. I do own Apple products, however not their new iMacs or MacBook pro's. The company makes stupid decisions, such as remove all of the important ports, and charge you a premium for dongles. Their prices are outrageous. If Apple was a bakery, they would charge 30 dollars for loaf of bread and say "the dough is an extra 15 dollars". Whats worse, is other company's follow what Apple do. I a Dell XP 13" laptop from 2012, has enough ports on it to do my work. The company I work for has upgraded the laptops to new Dell's, and guess what??? Ports are gone and now I have to lug around a dongle!!! Samsung followed Apple and removed the headphone jack out of the S series phones. It doesn't make sense. And yes I agree with you on Tesla. I'd rather buy an electric car made by a company that has made cars for decades such as GM, Nissan etc. They know a thing or six about manufacturing cars correctly. Love your videos, and I hope the Teac portable DAT unit I gave you a few years back is still chugging along. Take care.
Why would anyone replace a tantalum capacitor by an electro? Tants are much more stable with temperature, lower ESR, the capacity does not depend on the frequency, they last forever... In fact many HP lab material such as precision frequency counters, multimeters and signal generators they all use tantalum caps...
I have a can of the MG Chemicals Safety Wash II. It has the 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane, but it has no lubricant, just a cleaner. Says test on plastics before use. Just bought it a month ago on Amazon here in the states. Got it to clean off some circuit boards that have been saturated with D5 Deoxit cleaner that are attracting dust. Have you tried that product?
@@12voltvids I just found 1/4 of a can of flux remover aerosol in my storage room. Chemtronics Inc. Hauppauge, N.Y. 11787 Copyright 1980. Active ingredient: 97% Freon TMS reg TM DuPont 3% CO2. I think that is the bad nasty stuff right there. Used to clean circuit boards under a big vented hood with that stuff for a place I worked in the early 80's.
@@zulumax1 that's great cleaner. You can use it just not sell it now. Any already produced can be used. It's only harmful to the ozone but since the ban the ozone is recovering nicely.
Okay... having NOT watched the video yet... audio popping on playback... Hmmm, I'm gonna guess a word clock sync issue... Those things were beasts to get working again... We had a bunch of them at work, use to eat tapes all the time!!
Are you interested 2 repair a JVC super VHS HR-S5970 the tape jammed because something is broken but the VHS itself isnt death... I love him its my baby...
The 33 was more expensive. Has a 20.6mp sensor. So it takes really good stills too. The 53 they dropped the sensor to 16mp and the even newer ax43 drops it to 8.9mp.
@@tekvax01 I know and i was poking fun back at ya. Does that brand even exist anymore ? I wouldn't know one brand from another. Everyone i knew growing up (relatives and family friends) that smoked are long dead. Those that didn't lived into the 90s and one will be turning 100 this summer.
@@tekvax01 Neither have I but my dad did and it cut his quality of life big time in his later years. Walk to the driveway and he was huffing and puffing, and still had a coffin nail in his mouth.
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That bloody tap-dancer on those heads keep them coming
Cooool repair. Great to watch the troubleshooting!
My go-to DAT machine is a DA-30 MKII, but there are a lot of changes to that model. I've also repaired a couple of DA-45HR decks recently.
It would have been interesting to see the FM envelope and the data level stability once you had done the repair, but I quite understand wanting to leave well alone once it was working!
The 30 mkII is a totally different unit, as is the 40, which you can even put the CD Text on for tapes that were headed for replication.
Hey 12volts love ur work man specially repair of vcr i dont get more reply from u but ur video really help me so much.. lots of love from India ♥️ stay blessed
A prime example of infinite patience when working on electronics. I have ordered new belts for my DA - 30 MK II and this video will help me out !
Me as well !!
@@gregoryframpton6695 Belts done long ago, also a tip on tapes. Solution for some drop outs, on old DAT tapes, fast forward and rewind before playing or transfer to another format. I bought my DA for 100 bucks. Can't believe what people are asking for cassette and DAT decks on Ebay. 200 bucks for a cassette deck that doesn't function !
@@cars654 thanks for the advice.
Yes, tapes are getting pricey.
Glad I have this classic unit.
Cheers!!
Thanks for the awesome vids bro,it is truly valuable.
I have just purchased aTascam DA-30 MKII. at an auction here in Hamilton Ontario Canada.
this beauty doesnt have a scratch, truly in mint condition.
placed a tape in the cartridge and yes... got error #1.
probably sat around for years and I will call this a discovery in Touble shooting for sure.
Thanks bud
Ive subscribed because its a smart thing to do!!
Tiny loading belt needs replacing. It's easy to change. Just did a da30 mk2.
@@12voltvids yes you are correct.
Got the cover off, flipped over the deck and bingo!! The belt has expanded in size and is rendered useless.
I have already ordered a replacement...thanks for you vids...
Keep it up!!!
Super clean unit and well taken care of. GREAT video I was getting worried towards the end. Hope it goes to a good home. Yes they are still high priced.
It's clean because it came out if a non smokers studio.
Excellent job and glad you tracked down the cause of the popping. I watched the first video and actually posted a question with my DA-30 unit where it is tearing the tape. Mine seems to be a mechanical problem, but I would value your opinion on it. Great job and worth the wait for your positive result. Thanks and all the best.
Phil
NYC Area
Caps, the gift that keeps on giving... :-(
I still have one to this day, the only problem I have had is the loading tray O ring perished. Easy to replace.
The reason I still have mine is the same, legacy recordings from my studio days.
Around 300 DAT tapes with it.
Well Done for finding that fault. I'll keep this in mind if it ever happens to mine.
Thanks for your learn on repair .
Good job now i know where to look when i get the transport un gummy if i have the same problem
Loved this one, I really don't know how you keep your patience on ones like these.
Welcome from Hungary😊
A lot of TASCAM decks are used by recording studios, performing arts theaters, auditoriums, school districts, television stations, universities, and other facilities. Decks like this are typically not for home use. Looks like a piece of higher end equipment.
Quality stuff!
These were professional studio decks. No copy protection. I use a da40 myself which is much better as it supports both speeds and 3 sample rates. This one single speed. I have found a home for it but still have to negioare a price. He wants it for a song.
@@12voltvids What is ironic about the copy protection on CDs is how easily it can be circumvented today. Most computer CD drives available to home users do not pay any attention to the Serial Copy Management System. CDs can also be ripped an burned with iTunes, Windows Media Player, or other programs. But back then the no copy protection required purchase of professional grade equipment.
Dat machines are super cool never owned one but a friend had one very good sound i was impressed
Uses in the recording industry pretty much exclusively from the mid 80s to early 2000s untill hard drive session recording took over.
Live and learn, odd fault though.
I have a DA-60 that sometimes works perfect, and sometimes doesn't play sound. I always see the time and track IDs correctly (so it's clearly reading the tape), but nothing on dB meters and no sound coming out.
Sometimes power cycling a few times gets it to start working properly, sometimes not.
Happy to pay for your time if you can help get to the bottom of this!
Those gaps in the envelope are the guard bands between audio data and subcode.
That's what I figured. There is time code, and user bits sub code as was as ATF (tracking) which are recorded on each side of the audio payload.
I had to clean that little modeswitch on the right side of the mech, i'm not using it to often, one or two times a year 👍
I have a cosmetically nice Kenwood DX-7030 with no remote and several unopened DAT tapes still in the wrappers. I figured these were boat anchors and was going to recycle it. Probably cost more to ship it than it is worth. When CDR's came out I never seen the reason to have it fixed.
Excellent video dave :-D, it would work, it had no choice lol.
But what a pain in the butt that was, bloody capacitors yet again!.
I was thinking about static on the head drum or faulty earthing on one end of the ch1/ch2 screened cables to the preamp module.
I was thinking vcr faults as the deck has a similar head drum system.
But no, i was thinking out of my arse :-D
I hope the camera problem is a bum card or slightly incompatable brand.
Make sure they know that you want it repaired and not swapped for a different model.
Very much like all your videos on DAT machines, because I want to buy 1, but, your videos scare the hell out of me how temperamental these things are. My favorite Line..............It worked last time I used it. As I was told looking to buy a DA30 but was not able to hear because of seller meet in public place, so I declined, just got a bad feeling, needless to say is ad on CL was gone the next day.
@12voltvids did you check the ESR readings on the last 6 caps you replaced? Would be interested to know if they showed up as bad.
I have two of these decks that have had little use in the last ten years.
It is time to clean and test them both.
Always wanted a dat machine but too expensive. Really cool machine!
Hello I have one of these units. Same gummed up junk in the transport. Cleaned it all out and it worked great however it will not fast rewind or fast forward. I took the take up reel assembly out of the unit and put it back. Now its all messed up. Cant seem to get it working properly. Any tricks on that take up reel assembly? Great video by the way!!
always wanted a DAT when i was young but couldn't afford it. i was a bid audiophile back then, had to have the latest and greatest. even had a full digital walkman with the digital push button tape controls instead of the normal mechanical ones
I jumped into DAT when the first models hit the store shelves. I still have a bunch of mixed DAT tapes and still play them from time to time.
That's channel 1 or head A on your scope Dave? what about a error rate read of 0% on head A, but 90% on head B or channel 2? what is the channel 2 used for?
Hello great video where do I get a motor for one of these? Rf130 ch Is what it says on the motor but then there’s different RPMs and I don’t know which one is the right one. Thanks
Super 👍
uneasy feeling... So much old electro/mechanical fiddly (and sticky) stuff waiting to fail.
That metal guide still seemed to have a slight drag at the very end of its travel. 31:53
Love your scope (I'm just not confident trusting results from the digital scopes).
Agree - a service manual would be nice! Did you test ESR on those removed caps?
Hope you got it and will have NO MORE TROUBLES after the sale. Great video (as always).
Well I can always sell it as a parts only machine.
It's going to a local buyer. I don't sell on eBay.
We have a couple of those scopes at work... I WISH I had one at home!! :)
@@tekvax01 I got this one for a song, literally. Was donated by a viewer. Same guy that sent me my Panasonic ct101 1.5" color CRT TV which I ended up buying. Basically cost me about 150 in shipping charges and tax as customs would not believe it was gifted and assessed tax on it.
my question is where did you find that royalty free song that you played here
good day! Thank you for the very detailed videos on the repair of equipment. At your direction, I lubricated and cleaned the tascam da-30. unloading, refueling, it works super. And here's the most unpleasant thing ... when you press play, there is no sound, but when you press the rewind button to play while playing, the sound appears. Please, what could it be? Thanks!
I guess the one saving grace is the mechanism is easy to pull out
We use to buy FreonTF by the ten-gallon barrel to clean Betacam and one-inch C VTR scanner heads and guides...
Yes I know. Used so much if that stuff. Was a very good solvent. Problem was it burns the ozone up and then the sun burns us up.
@@12voltvids the tape opers use to give the newbies a cold freon shower, so got completely soaked, and then 10 mins later dry as a bone... I got my share of cold pants surprises when entering the VTR machine room.... seemed all harmless fun at the time!
@@tekvax01 I remember those. Or the cold spray. That was one to wake you up. (spray some cold spray (or the contents of an inverted can of dust off) into a plastic cap, and then dump the contents onto an unsuspecting victim. Wakes them up really quick. Good place was to dump down someone's back when they were falling asleep on the job.
Thanks Dave...
I still have a can or 2 of the Green label DE-OX-ID...
and Tun-o-wash, If You know what that is HAAHAHAHA
Nice work. I used to own a DA-30, but switched it for a DA-30 MkII. BTW, why the hatred for Macs?
Not an apple fanboy. No Apple products here anymore. I had an ipod3 and was happy. Then they changed the connector and made my expensive dock station speaker system obsolete. They upgraded os that will not run and iTunes won't talk to old os, so I can't update music. None of the streaming apps run becauase they require newer os. Not supported. Sonos is another company i will never own any product from. Another one is tesla. Now you may say, well i can't afford a Tesla. Actually i could. I could walk in and drop cash and buy one today, but it would be the last car I would buy. Other cars i would never own, Mercedes, BMW, and jokeswagon / Audi. 2 of those brands from past bad experience.
@@12voltvids I hear you. I do own Apple products, however not their new iMacs or MacBook pro's. The company makes stupid decisions, such as remove all of the important ports, and charge you a premium for dongles. Their prices are outrageous. If Apple was a bakery, they would charge 30 dollars for loaf of bread and say "the dough is an extra 15 dollars". Whats worse, is other company's follow what Apple do. I a Dell XP 13" laptop from 2012, has enough ports on it to do my work. The company I work for has upgraded the laptops to new Dell's, and guess what??? Ports are gone and now I have to lug around a dongle!!! Samsung followed Apple and removed the headphone jack out of the S series phones. It doesn't make sense. And yes I agree with you on Tesla. I'd rather buy an electric car made by a company that has made cars for decades such as GM, Nissan etc. They know a thing or six about manufacturing cars correctly. Love your videos, and I hope the Teac portable DAT unit I gave you a few years back is still chugging along. Take care.
@@MrPitatom yes it is still chugging along fine. I have 2 gm evs now. Both have been great.
I have a box of eBay tape deck fails I have spent half my life in and out of it truly believing I will make one work lmao
Hi. Are you servicing DA 30 machines currently? If so how do I proceed to get it to you?
I still work on them. I don't have a source for parts however as these have been out of production for many years.
teac is good tho 👍
One question... is sony drum head (2 head) compatible with Tascam drum head? Is it some standard...can i put sony on Tascam mecha? Tnx
No totally different. I have both tascam and Sony. Even different models use different drums.
@@12voltvids mdrfkrs...tnx for answer
Hi do you do repairs? Or would you on another DAT machine? thanks
I still work on them
@@12voltvids I have one that need help..
That needs help..
Why would anyone replace a tantalum capacitor by an electro? Tants are much more stable with temperature, lower ESR, the capacity does not depend on the frequency, they last forever... In fact many HP lab material such as precision frequency counters, multimeters and signal generators they all use tantalum caps...
Tant have problems of their own. For starters they can go dead short for no reason. They can also go boom (explode)
I have a can of the MG Chemicals Safety Wash II. It has the 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane, but it has no lubricant, just a cleaner. Says test on plastics before use. Just bought it a month ago on Amazon here in the states. Got it to clean off some circuit boards that have been saturated with D5 Deoxit cleaner that are attracting dust. Have you tried that product?
Yes used to use that to clean heads. Banned here years ago.
@@12voltvids I just found 1/4 of a can of flux remover aerosol in my storage room. Chemtronics Inc. Hauppauge, N.Y. 11787 Copyright 1980. Active ingredient: 97% Freon TMS reg TM DuPont 3% CO2.
I think that is the bad nasty stuff right there. Used to clean circuit boards under a big vented hood with that stuff for a place I worked in the early 80's.
@@zulumax1 that's great cleaner. You can use it just not sell it now. Any already produced can be used. It's only harmful to the ozone but since the ban the ozone is recovering nicely.
Okay... having NOT watched the video yet... audio popping on playback...
Hmmm, I'm gonna guess a word clock sync issue... Those things were beasts to get working again...
We had a bunch of them at work, use to eat tapes all the time!!
well... I was wrong... It was capacitors! It's always capacitors...
Just curious... why use 3in1 oil instead of lithium grease when lubricating the transport slidey bits?
yo tengo uno de los mismo y el problema que no tiene sonido,pero al pulsar el boton adelantar y alli funciona el audio raro el problema
how can i get u to look at something for me
Are you interested 2 repair a JVC super VHS HR-S5970 the tape jammed because something is broken but the VHS itself isnt death... I love him its my baby...
Your older AX33 looks better too. Hmm hope Sony is not going like other brands, cheap cheap :(
The 33 was more expensive. Has a 20.6mp sensor. So it takes really good stills too. The 53 they dropped the sensor to 16mp and the even newer ax43 drops it to 8.9mp.
(23:05) ....and demonetised!
Why? Because I mentioned someone I worked for got cancer from smoking.
@@12voltvids I was just joking... because you mentioned a cigarette company... :)
@@tekvax01 I know and i was poking fun back at ya. Does that brand even exist anymore ? I wouldn't know one brand from another. Everyone i knew growing up (relatives and family friends) that smoked are long dead. Those that didn't lived into the 90s and one will be turning 100 this summer.
@@12voltvids no idea... never smoked a day in my life!
@@tekvax01 Neither have I but my dad did and it cut his quality of life big time in his later years. Walk to the driveway and he was huffing and puffing, and still had a coffin nail in his mouth.
that spring is something else. looks bad & useless. tascam = cheapest japanese electronics. 👍🇨🇦
That's why they blew the doors of nakamichi. Just ask any serious musician.