I have a valise case full of late 80's 4 track recordings done on a Yamaha MT44D deck and another of dbx encoded cassette masters from a Yamaha K720 stereo deck.
I should really x-fer that stuff yesterday, but it's a project. Time to get both repaired if possible to do the x-fers before the expertice evaporates forever. I really just need the 4track for the x-fers but I'd like to keep the K720 around for the odd cassette I may want to play.
Any suggestions on who to contact to service this gear?I so loved that K720 machine. Some cool features were the optical sensor auto reverse that flipped directions before the leader in a fraction of a second, auto bias, HX-pro, dbxII, blank skip, intro & music scan, section repeat, rec fade-in-out button, timer recoring/playback and a totally cool fuction that FFW'd to the end then rewound to where ever you were on the tape, resetting the minute-seconds remaining count-down timer precisely (the best mixtape tool ever!).
Yammy K-720-
The MT44D 4track deck used little adhesive magnetic sticker on the casstte window to tell the machine to go into 4-track mode and the sensor stopped working so I need to bypass it. It came in a rack along with a 6 channel mixer and patch bay. Everytime I see the little handle protrusions on a Edirol R-4/pro/44 I think of that 4 track machine rack. Sexy gear for it's day.
The modular sytem-
The 'Edirol ears' - rack, deck and storage compartment missing mixer and patchbay-
The deck-