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Hello
Have a question.
I found a Beocord 2000 Cassette Player thrown in the trash.
I took it and repaired it. It had many problems - 2 diodes burned in power supply, 5V source, LM7805 burned,
LM324 from VU-meters, an operational burned, 8V reference on Dolby missing.
I unwrapped the mechanical part piece by piece, I cleaned it, greased it and made it functional,
I replaced the belt set, I did a recap. After a lot of work and a lot of problems, the cassette player
finally became functional.
Now plays perfectly, records perfectly. The VU-meters work perfectly and are calibrated.
Have only one problem - I can't listen the music which is recording, during recording operation.
During recording have no playback sound. I can not hear the music even REC and STOP are activated,
when I want to adjust the recording level. It is very unusual not to hear what you are recording, a lot can happen and you have no idea.
All I can do is look at the VU meter.
What to do, what did I miss ? How can I hear the music being recorded directly during recording?
You can't.Beocord 2000 has a combined record/playback head, so doesn't support B-testing.Actually, only very few cassettedeck can do this.
Martin
Thanks for the answer but I don't think my question was understood.
We are not talking about a third head to read what was recorded on the tape in real time = tape / source.
I agree with you that very few cassette players can do that.
My post refers to the fact that the audio signal that enters to audio (line) in, it is not transferred to audio (line) out during recording.
The other cassette players that I have, transfer the signal from audio in to audio out, when the REC button is pressed and you can listen in the speakers,
That's what I want to do with Beocord 2000, to hear something during the recording time.
Was I clear now?
It can't do this for several reasons, one of them being that same parts of circuits are used for both record and playback, switched between, and can't do both task at the same time.