General Category > 1530USB Datasette to PC Adapter
Unable to Record to Tapes
Remzi:
If the programs that you tried to record on a tape is not loading on your Commodore 64,here is the troubleshooting.
1.Inspect the tape,is it creased? Pressure pad missing?
2.Clean the heads,capstan and the pinch roller with IPA and cotton buds.
3.Do not tick the "inverted waveform" box.It is used for transfering from tape to PC,not for recording to tapes.
4.Go to sound settings and make sure USB Pnp sound device is set as default for the playback.
5.Do not use your computer while recording.If you get any audio notifications from Facebook or messenger,it will be recorded to the tape.
6.DOWNLOAD Recorder Justage and record it to tape.Try loading on C64.
7.Backup that not loading tape back to PC and send me the WAV file so I can investigate what is wrong with it.
Remzi:
--- Quote from: chriz74 on October 12, 2020, 01:43:57 PM ---it arrived. I tried it, something strange. I recorded two cassettes, one worked only on one side. Strange, the recorder can't even read what it writes..
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If you managed to record something and it loaded,it shows adapter is working fine but there is something else wrong.
Make sure your speaker settings are exactly same as above.Increase the volume to 100.
Do you have any other tape decks?
chriz74:
my tests so far:
I made a tap file from original "Space Harrier" tape with success.
I tried the 3000 herzt test, none of my c2n read anything, my guess is they didn't record anything at all, tried several times with different tapes to no avail.
I made a tape from a tap file of "Antiriad" then I created a tap from the cassette, tried to load it in vice, it failed. Then I passed the same file to final tap and tried to load it in vice, it worked.
I was finally able to record a square tone using another software --> https://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/index.html
Here is the log, it was always over 3000 hertz
3007.0 0.3523 0.5978
3003.5 0.3890 0.6976
3003.1 0.3657 0.7664
3006.8 0.3643 0.7664
3005.7 0.3773 0.7664
chriz74:
--- Quote from: Remzi on December 20, 2019, 09:51:19 PM ---
7.Backup that not loading tape back to PC and send me the WAV file so I can investigate what is wrong with it.
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here it is
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hu8suaapo0nlc8t/antiriad.wav.zip
Remzi:
FinalTap gives 100% but it works if cleaned.
There must be a small issue.It might be the drive belt or tape deck might be picking up some noise.
Make sure your mobile phone and the WIFI router is away from the datasette.
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