Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum and I was hoping some of you guys might be able to help. I'm currently restoring an old tube tape echo and I'm having trouble with noise. It's a German Dynacord Echocord Super S 65
I've replaced all the power supply filter caps and the selenium bridge rectififer, the motor run cap, most of the coupling caps and several plate resistors that had drifted and 2 pots thar were bad and I'm currently replacing all the ceramic disk caps. I've also cleaned and lubricated the motor, rollers etc...
As far as I can tell, the units works ok. All preamps work, echo works fine and sounds pretty good.
The problem is that it's quite noisy. It hisses quite a lot but the main problem is the amount of noise I get when I turn the dry/wet (reverb control) up. It adds even more hiss as well as some kind of mechanical noise. It's as if the noise generated by the motor, rollers etc was picked up and amplified. The noise comes after the preamp section because it does not go away when I remove the 2 preamp tubes (V1 and 2). I'm familiar with tube amps but this is the 1st tape echo I've worked on so I don't really know how much noise is acceptable or normal.
I must admit that I don't really know what to do at this stage so if anybody has any suggestions I'd be very grateful!
I'm trying to upload the schematic but it doesn't seem to work.
Thanks
I've replaced all the power supply filter caps and the selenium bridge rectififer, the motor run cap, most of the coupling caps and several plate resistors that had drifted and 2 pots thar were bad and I'm currently replacing all the ceramic disk caps. I've also cleaned and lubricated the motor, rollers etc...
As far as I can tell, the units works ok. All preamps work, echo works fine and sounds pretty good.
The problem is that it's quite noisy. It hisses quite a lot but the main problem is the amount of noise I get when I turn the dry/wet (reverb control) up. It adds even more hiss as well as some kind of mechanical noise. It's as if the noise generated by the motor, rollers etc was picked up and amplified. The noise comes after the preamp section because it does not go away when I remove the 2 preamp tubes (V1 and 2). I'm familiar with tube amps but this is the 1st tape echo I've worked on so I don't really know how much noise is acceptable or normal.
I must admit that I don't really know what to do at this stage so if anybody has any suggestions I'd be very grateful!
I'm trying to upload the schematic but it doesn't seem to work.
Thanks
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