Tape Trail

• RE: Tape Woe's - grhughes 16:09:54 07/29/11 (9)
  In Reply to: RE: Tape Woe's posted by jcmusic on July 27, 2011 at 16:11:55

  Sounds like the tape B has lost some of it's lubricant or it's lubricant has migrated due to storage position and conditions. Tape without lubricant is very abrasive. It happened to me once with a roll of Radio Shack tape but not with a roll of Scotch or Agfa or Basf. Ray
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  • RE: Tape Woe's - jcmusic 20:25:17 07/29/11 (8)
    In Reply to: RE: Tape Woe's posted by grhughes on July 29, 2011 at 16:09:54

    I don't know what happened that's why I posted it, hoping someone knew exactly what causes this!!! It's weird because it's about half way throught the tape when it gets bad. The first half is fine then all of a sudden!!! This was new RMGI 468 tape stored upright in a cool enviroment just like my other tape.
    

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    • Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - marc-homeslice 09:52:06 07/30/11 (7)
      In Reply to: RE: Tape Woe's posted by jcmusic on July 29, 2011 at 20:25:17

      USRecording or wherever you bought it, to see if they've ever heard of this or are willing to replace the tape?
      
      Maybe you can send an email to RMGI, see if they have anything to say about it. At the very least, if you bought it from an authorized source, they should replace it.
      
      
      

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      • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - jcmusic 06:00:55 07/31/11 (0)
        In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by marc-homeslice on July 30, 2011 at 09:52:06

        No I didn't I just threw it away and got another tape.
        

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      • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - timl 01:32:19 07/31/11 (5)
        In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by marc-homeslice on July 30, 2011 at 09:52:06

        I'd say not a tape defect. Perhaps your tape deck's speed regulation board failed during the last half of that tape. Or some other transport defect that caused speed error. It's an intermittent defect.
        

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        • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - ironbut 10:11:42 07/31/11 (3)
          In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by Tim L on July 31, 2011 at 01:32:19

          Hi Jay,
          From the post you made on the TP forum regarding this issue, I got the impression that the sound was speeding up and slowing down on playback.
          I may have just misread your post. I say this because if this issue began with you doing a recording, the tape speed slowing during recording (like from a sticky tape)would result in the playback being too fast in those sections. If the sound was recorded at a "higher" speed than it was played back, the playback would sound slow.
          If the tape speed was too high, then it's probably a capstan speed issue (as Tim L suggested) or your source.
          

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          • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - jcmusic 12:24:03 07/31/11 (0)
            In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by ironbut on July 31, 2011 at 10:11:42

            Steve,
            I am not really sure what you mean, the tape recorded and played back the first three songs just fine. Then some where during the forth song it started to sounding a little funny, and it got progressively worst as the song continued all the way to the end of that tape. I got out another tape and rerecorded it and all is fine, so my feeling was it was a bad tape. I still don't really know for sure but, if it doesn't happen any more it must have been the tape.
            

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          • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - timl 12:04:42 07/31/11 (1)
            In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by ironbut on July 31, 2011 at 10:11:42

            Putting the tape on another deck does not rule out the original deck as the problem. The deck's speed control (or something else) temporarily failed during record. It back to working now, which is possible. The tape could be fine and the deck just had a intermittent failure during record.
            

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            • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - jcmusic 12:18:26 07/31/11 (0)
              In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by Tim L on July 31, 2011 at 12:04:42

              Well you may be right about it being the deck I don't know, but when I put another tape on and rerecorded it all was fine!!!
              

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        • RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? - jcmusic 05:59:52 07/31/11 (0)
          In Reply to: RE: Wow. Have you contacted the vendor? posted by Tim L on July 31, 2011 at 01:32:19

          The first thing I did was to rule out the deck, by putting the tape on another deck!!! I got the same results it was the tape period.
          

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