Help with GoVideo dual deck vcr copying

[Midwestvillain]

Hi, I've been looking around online and can't find an answer to my problem so I was hoping this would be the place. I'm running into an issue where every tape I try to copy comes out way quieter than the original tape it's copied from. I'm not sure why it's happening or what to do to fix it. Any help would be great! Thanks

[dellsam34]

What type of audio is in the tapes you are recording? HiFi stereo, Linear mono? More info needed.

[Midwestvillain]

What type of audio is in the tapes you are recording? HiFi stereo, Linear mono? More info needed.

Is there anyway to tell? Sorry I'm super new to copying vhs. It's a tape from 98 that was recorded off tv if that helps. My first thought is that somehow the tracking is what did it but I don't know if thats a thing that happens.

[dellsam34]

The only thing will be affected by level is mono linear audio, Video and HiFi Stereo will not have level fade since they are RF in nature so you would get noise, miss tracking, chroma artifacts, frame problems, buzzing for HiFi stereo... etc. The best you can do right now is clean the entire tape path, if that doesn't work have it checked by a repair person, But hosestly those Go-video decks are not worth spending hundered of dollars on repairs, they are very low quality and I don't exactly know what's the reason behind copying VHS tapes nowadays, Are you a small production company or something? If not just get a good S-VHS VCR with line TBC and digitize them for good if they are not available on other modern digital formats.

[lordsmurf]

Go.Video dual decks are literally the worst VCRs ever made.
Not exaggerating.
#1 worst.
The playback and recording is some of the worst crap known to man.
These were infamous in the 90s amongst toon/tv show collectors