A deck plays and records at a high rate of speed, sounds like the chipmunks. B deck plays and records fine, but would'nt mind having the whole thing gone thru.

There is a cam with solidified grease on a lot of Sony Mechanisms. The deck need to be cleaned of the grease they used that solidifies and then a better grease such as Lubriplate 105 should be applied.
The Idlers need to be reconditioned as well. The Sony units can be labor intensive due to this required work but I do fix them when people want them done. I am in the Chicago area as Skywave Tape Deck Repair

Hi
If you have a dual cassette deck, then one deck will only play cassettes,whilst the other will have a record facility as well.
Basically you need to place the original cassette in the play only deck and the target cassette in the record/play deck.
Start the playback in the play only deck and immediately press the record and play buttons together on the record deck. Some decks have high speed dubbing but this varies so much that you will need to consult your manual for this.
Cheers

Check whether the newly repalced belt is too tight. If it is so, the fault you report here can occur.

Either the speed switch is history or there is a belt problem. Get rid of it.

The Bias control is used during recording. If you turn down the bias, you will get more highs, but the distortion will increase, and then start to increase dramatically if you back off the bias more.

As far as playing tapes from different decks goes.......

1..Does the tape that you recorded on your deck sound OK on your deck ?
2..Does the tape that you recorded on your deck sound OK on other decks ?

If 1 and 2 are true, then your deck is OK.

If the tapes recorded on a specific deck sound bar on yours, but 1 and 2 are true, then the other deck is faulty.

When a deck leaves the factory, the head is aligned to a " standard " tape. By standard tape I mean a very special tape recorded in such a way, that a tech can tell if the head is out of align and "tweek " the physical alignment of the tape head..

All decks are aligned just a little differently, but fairly close to each other.

first do the mechanicals....is the head of your deck spotlessly clean ?. Use 99% pure isopropanol alcohol and a cotton swab. Never use anything metal to clean the tape head. If you scratch the head, its toast.

If your deck is clean, plays its own recordings well, and those recordings play well on other decks, then your deck is not the problem.

Hope this helps,
Rob

Welcome to analog sound. It hardly matters what you have upstream, the slowest link in the chain will determine the fastest speed. A cassette deck's high-end frequency response is dismal at normal speed. It only loses MORE high frequencies if you increase it, say, to dub cassettes. Playing out to the usb is at normal speed. Block out some time. That's the way it is.

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probaly your speed for recording is set faster check for recording and playback speed

hi,
somewhere on that player is a switch for 78-45-33 rpm the speed switch look up around by the tone arm above by where the record goes, it may not be on the front. switch it to the correct record you have 45's are small. 78's are medium and 33rpms are the big records..
jm

Even though you say you did not mess with the settings, I'd suggest you check the audio recoding settings in Vista anyway. Better make sure all those are correct.

If you are using an internal microphone, I'd suggest trying an external one (if you already have that, try a different one). Even a webcam with built in mic will do. That way you can isolate the cause.
Based on my experience I'd say that chances are bugger that it is a loose contact, so make sure to check your plug if it's an external mic.

Jules

Hello check the switch for VOX needs to be in the middle position make sure is not on F.Play
If the speed doesn’t change is your main motor