Originally Posted by
Barry
How did you monitor the recording - off-tape, or simply monitored the input signal?
Ali as Barry is sugesting you have to monitor the ouput from the playback head to hear what you are actually recording.
It could be that the pre amp is overloading the calibrated input level to the tandberg causing tape saturation or the record bias is not correct for the tape type used?.
As Steve suggested try recording directly from the phono stage which is normally a much lower input level than a pre amp.
Anything in the signal path can cause distortion so its best to keep it a simple as possible
Alan
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