SCT-56 Dubbing Cassette Deck (140-0676) Troubleshooting Faxback Doc. # 32608 Your cassette deck should give you years of trouble-free service if you follow the instructions in this manual. If you do have problems, the chart below can help you solve them. If you still have problems after following the suggestions below, take the cassette deck to your Radio Shack store for assistance. Symptom Cause Remedy Power does not come on. The power cord is Plug in the unplugged. power cord. The component to which Turn on the the power cord is attached component. is turned off. The door does not open. The deck is not stopped. Press symbol. The door does not close. The cassette is not Remove and properly loaded. reinsert the cassette. The tape immediately The tape is at the end Play the other stops. of that side. side of the tape or rewind the tape. The tape has too much Take up the slack. slack. The level meter does not There is nothing Replace the tape work during playback. recorded on the with one that tape. has a recording. The tape heads are Clean the tape dirty. heads. There is no sound. The receiver/amplifier's Set the input selector is not receiver's/ properly set. amplifier's input selector to the same input you connected the deck to. The receiver/amplifier's Turn up the volume is too low. receiver's/ amplifier's volume. There are connection Check all problems. connections. The record indicator The erase protection Replace the tape does not light when tabs are broken off. with one with you try to record. unbroken tabs or cover the holes with tape. The level meter does The receiver/amplifier's Correctly set not work during recording or other audio signal the receiver/ or nothing records onto source is not delivering amplifier's the tape. an audio signal to the controls. deck. The REC LEVEL control Turn up REC is set too low. LEVEL. There are connections Check all problems. connections. The tape heads are Clean the tape dirty. heads. The sound is unstable The heads, pinch rollers, Clean all tape or interrupted. capstans, or other tape- handling parts. handling parts are dirty. The tape is not uniformly Completely rewind wound. then fast-forward the tape. High-frequency sounds A tape recorded without Correctly set are mussing. Dolby NR is being played DOLBY NR. back with DOLBY NR set to B or C. The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. High-frequency sounds A tape recorded with Dolby Set DOLBY NR to are emphasized. NR is being played back the same position with DOLBY NR set to OFF. as was used for recording. The sounds from The tape heads are Clean the tape previous recordings are dirty. heads. The sound is distorted. The recording level is Turn down REC too high. LEVEL and re- record. The original signal Replace the was distorted. original record- ing source. The heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. There is too much Poor-quality tape is Use a better- noise. being used. quality tape. There is a faulty Check all connection. connections. Recording level is too Turn up REC low. LEVEL and re- record. The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. ASMS does not operate Blanks between selections Use tapes with properly. are less than 4 seconds blanks of 4 long. seconds or more between selections. The system remote The control cord is Properly connect control does not not connected. the control work. cord. CD-deck synchro recording The CD-deck synchro Properly connect does not work. control cord is not the control connected. cord. The cassette tape's erase Replace the protection tabs are cassette with one broken. with unbroken tabs or cover the holes with tape. The CD-DECK SYNCHRO The end of the tape Replace the tape stops working was reached during with a longer during CD-DECK CD-Deck Synchro one. Synchro recording. recording. After the deck entered Change the disc the standby mode, and press CD more than 1 minute SYNCHRO RECORD elapsed before the again. CD player resumed play. (LB/all-05/08/96)