The Lanier model VIP/C handheld cassette recorder.

[clydesight]

Cool repair. It makes pretty nice recordings. Did I see that it puts the recording on the left channel only, and the cue on the right? Interesting concept. Good video!

[CassetteMaster]

It puts the recording on the right, and the cue on the left. I really like this machine, it is very good quality!

[clydesight]

GUESS WHAT! My SONY BM-11 has a similar "cue" feature. I owe you for this tip. There is a setting on the pause switch called "e/idx" which I did not understand. It is a spring loaded thing, you push and then let go. I never got it to work. But I checked and the SONY does have a stereo head, and does what your Lanier does. I tested it on my Panasonic Boom Box cue and review, and there was the tone! It doesn't sound on the Sony though, not sure why. Maybe through the headphone jack?

[CassetteMaster]

It doesn't sound through my Lanier, either. The machine only monitors thie right channel.

[clydesight]

I wonder why they did that? Hmmmm, who can know the mysterious inner workings of the minds of tape recorder engineers!

Well, even so, you are the Cassette MASTER! Thanks for the tip in this video, I can now make annoying buzzing sounds with my Sony BM-11 -- and that, after all, is a definite advantage, isn't it?

[CassetteMaster]

The cue tones are an advantage, as you could put it on different areas of the tape, and list the times, so a transcriber person could better locate certain notes and recordings.

[spatsbear2]

Very high quality unit there. Unique as well.

[BASCKIT13]

do you stiill recor tapes ?

[CassetteMaster]

Record tapes? Yes.

[EclipseWebJS]

I'm thinking it's some inaudible 30-45 Hz tone. One experiment I did was I recorded 30 Hz tones on my Radio Shack CTR-121 recorder to mark transitions on a cassette I made with my computer and it's audible when I would cue and review it as well.

[themasterofmovies]

How many reel to reel tapes do you have?

[CassetteMaster]

The tapes or the machines? I have a good number of machines, portables and full-size units. Tapes? LOTS! Some are in very dusty and sliced-up shape though.

[Mastercorder]

Ricky, thats a cool video and a good machine I wish you would do a video of the massive CassetteMaster repair facility one where you drive up in the car like the Best Buy video and of coarce their will be signs on the doors CassetteMaster Service and then Sales and Parts and the business office right ? just a idea ..........

[CassetteMaster]

Well.......it's not nearly THAT fancy! I just do it in my messy room. I fixed this and other machines on this desk you see in the video. There is also a table elsewhere in the room where I fix stuff, but there are Legos on it right now. I'll make a video still, thanks for meminding me.

[Lachlant1984]

I have a cheap Digitor tape recorder with a cue marker. Very useful feature.

[Lachlant1984]

When was this unit built? Did you need to solder the batteries into the battery pack? I've seen a few Lanier Desktop dictating tape recorders and a couple of microcassette recorders.

[CassetteMaster]

According to looks and style, it's probably from the '70s. I had to solder wires on the batteries.

[EclipseWebJS]

When you recharged the batteries, did you have any glitches?

Interesting fact, I'm using rechargeable batteries for my tape recorder and it's not contained in a cramped plastic container either.

[CassetteMaster]

After I charged them overnight, they're doing nicely.

[EclipseWebJS]

???

Did you recharge them in the battery pack or were you charging them out of the battery pack?

[CassetteMaster]

I charge them in the pack. The plug-in 6 volt adaptor will charge the batteries while it's in the recorder.

[oviwolf]

Nice little cassette recorder!And good job on the batteries!

[coondogtheman1234]

CassetteMaster I like that atom smasher pic in the beginning i have a bunch of those on my myspace,I have an old walkman that uses a battery cartridge but i cant find another one for it so i kinda just stuck a 4 AA set that i had that i ripped out of a fan it has wires on it and i have those on the contacts look up on my channel vintage sanyo personal stereo

[jasonhdvideoman]

the tape master guy is back again how many tape recorder do you own any ways

[CassetteMaster]

103 cassette recorders, plus a few answering machines, some micro- and mini-cassette recorders. And a good number of reel-to-reels.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Neat repair, sound very good. Recording quality is really good and like the queue also. VIP/C, maybe the C is for Cassette. BTW they make duct tape in colors now. Very nice professional recorder.

[CassetteMaster]

Hmmm. Black duct tape would be useful.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Live was so much simpler when duct tape was only silver colored, now you have to make another decision.

[JBlair1982]

All of my mono cassette recorder record on both right and left channels with little veriation. What I mean by that is when if you play the tape on a stereo cassette deck with a VU meter, the meter might show at times the right channel had more signal than the left, and visa-versa.

[CassetteMaster]

I know what you mean, differences in head alighnment cause the differences in signal power on the stereo machines. But this uses a "stereo" head and one channel for audio, and the other for low-frequency cue tones.

[retrochad]

Great repair job on those batteries, very neat and professional. I just found a Lanier microcassette hand held machine at an estate sale but it needs some belts replaced.