{"id":99,"date":"2013-04-02T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvdm.xs4all.nl\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:17:13","slug":"finally-calibrated-my-tascam-34b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Finally calibrated my Tascam 34B"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ‘older’ Teac A-3440<\/p><\/div>\n

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This past week I finally got round to working with my recently bought Tascam 34B.<\/strong> Ever since I got it a few months ago, I haven’t been satisfied with the sound at all. And surely not for this kind of machine. The tape transports are ok, very good exactly. The overall look and feel is excellent, working with it is an absolute joy.<\/p>\n

But the sound was not ok. The sound was a little bit muffled, and some highs were absent. My older Teac A-3440<\/strong> sounds a lot better. But of course, that deck I have already tackled. Using some other decks I finetuned my skills over the last few months, and now I felt the time was right to take on the big mighty TASCAM 34B<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fortunately I had the service manual (recently purchased on the internet for a few euros, it was not freely available) so I used that as a guide. Other tools I used were my trusty calibration tape, a blank tape of LPR35,<\/strong> my old Philips scope<\/a> (which will be replaced by a better scope, more on that later), my Philips analogue voltmeter PM2505<\/a>, and software called Visual Analyser<\/a> (for spectrum).<\/p>\n

On the workbench, my 34B<\/strong> looked like this:<\/p>\n

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TASCAM 34B with face plate removed<\/p><\/div>\n

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TASCAM 34B bottom view. Notice the adjustment ‘knobs’<\/p><\/div>\n

So, after a lot of fiddling with the potentiometers, measuring levels, changing tapes, etc. etc. I was done. So I eagerly recorded my first music onto it, played it back and …………..<\/p>\n

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Wow!<\/em><\/p>\n

The sound was really, really great! I used CD recordings of Dire Straits, Donald Fagen, and 4-track surround (quad)<\/strong> music of Pink Floyd, The Doors, Doobie Brothers and Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody to test, and I could hardly, if at all, distinguish between de CD and the tape.<\/p>\n

This is truly amazing. I did not know a tape recorder could reproduce sound this good. As you can notice, I’m happy with the modifications I have done.
\nI don’t think this baby will go anywhere anytime soon, it will stay with me.
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