[MacDV] Re: Sony TRV-900 audio dropouts

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 4/16/04 1:32 PM, R Underwood at rcundd at hotmail.com wrote:

> Thanks to Gregg and Ron for advice on diagnosing the audio
> dropouts on my TRV-900 camcorder.  For the benefit of
> anyone else having similar problems: searching the web for
> cleaning ideas, I found and followed the instructions here:
> 
> http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/trouble/capclean.html
> http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/trouble/headclean.html
> 
> and my camcorder now works flawlessly again.  My camera
> had the telltale grimy line on the capstan, illustrated in clear
> photos at the first URL above.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Rebecca

You're welcome. Comes from experience "back in the day" with analog audio
tape formats and the problems that were caused by the magnetic particles
shedding onto any part or the recorder that the tape contacted (good old
friction). 

Glad you got it working ... did you venture to do the cleaning yourself?
-- 
Gregg