[19Seventy7]

Hi. I was not long given a cassette player (Sanyo RD 4260) which has been working fine. It's been playing tapes fine, no issues, apart from the tapes themselves. Anyway, I have been trying to record some of my records onto tape so I can listen to them elsewhere. However, when I try to record them, the left output from the record player, isn't being picked up by my cassette deck, or tape itself I believe.

I know it isn't the VU meter, as when playing pre-recorded tapes, they both move fine.

I'm new to cassettes and so being very inexperienced, I have minimal idea of what to do, I've tried the basics like checking wires and ports etc; they're fine. I'm also using a 5 pin DIN cable to connect the two, not anything else. The right output is detected and recorded fine, so is it something to do with my record player (Dynatron HFC 51 - using built in pre-amp) or deck? Everything works fine apart from the one issue of the left output not being recorded.