By cwhiley
Sat Nov 21, 2020 2:10 am
I joined this forum just to ask about my newly acquired MG614. I rescued it from a garage in Oklahoma but I had to pay a little for it. (225) It was untested. Good news is the mixer works perfectly save for a few scratchy pots.
I started using it right away as a submixer for a part of a ridiculous synth studio...stuck 6 outs from a digital Novation Supernova into it and utilized both sends and returns with some outboard fx.
The bad and almost unexpected news is that the cassette mechanism is pretty trashed. But its all there. The little hinges that help guide it down are broken so it takes a lot of work to get a tape in and out. Open and closes automatically fine without a tape in it. It played a couple of times but now doesn't at all but I hear the motors running. Not sure if its normal but the capstan never stops. It runs constantly no matter what as soon as I turn on power. The eject and head motor carriage seems to be working. Fast forward and rewind engage but are not working but I hear the motors spin up. Lastly I cannot get record to engage at all. The light will not come on.
I have taken the metal top off of it and looked and I haven't gone any farther and cannot quite tell how hard it is to remove the tape assembly as a whole. Does it require a total tear down to remove the assembly? The reason I ask is I have a friend in Mexico that could repair it but its only possible if I could remove just the tape assembly, have him repair it, and mail it back as shipping the entire unit and back to Mexico will just cost too much.
It works great as a mixer. I'm hesitant to aggressively try to fix it because I'm afraid I'll go from a cool mixer with a broken tape recorder to a totally broken thing fairly easily.
Thanks.
I started using it right away as a submixer for a part of a ridiculous synth studio...stuck 6 outs from a digital Novation Supernova into it and utilized both sends and returns with some outboard fx.
The bad and almost unexpected news is that the cassette mechanism is pretty trashed. But its all there. The little hinges that help guide it down are broken so it takes a lot of work to get a tape in and out. Open and closes automatically fine without a tape in it. It played a couple of times but now doesn't at all but I hear the motors running. Not sure if its normal but the capstan never stops. It runs constantly no matter what as soon as I turn on power. The eject and head motor carriage seems to be working. Fast forward and rewind engage but are not working but I hear the motors spin up. Lastly I cannot get record to engage at all. The light will not come on.
I have taken the metal top off of it and looked and I haven't gone any farther and cannot quite tell how hard it is to remove the tape assembly as a whole. Does it require a total tear down to remove the assembly? The reason I ask is I have a friend in Mexico that could repair it but its only possible if I could remove just the tape assembly, have him repair it, and mail it back as shipping the entire unit and back to Mexico will just cost too much.
It works great as a mixer. I'm hesitant to aggressively try to fix it because I'm afraid I'll go from a cool mixer with a broken tape recorder to a totally broken thing fairly easily.
Thanks.
