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What do you think would be a more appropriate price to ask? I could come down some, but considering what it costs to have these machines worked on or even to replace a single component on one of them, none of the prices I ever see them listed at really make any sense to me. Seems like the only...

I've got a Tascam MSR 16 1/2" Reel to Reel machine I'm thinking of selling. The sixteenth track does not play back signal. What's a fair price to ask for it? I was thinking $600.

What is it that causes this sticky shed syndrome, and what makes certain varieties of tape more prone to it than others? Also, how would tape companies have found a market for these products if they elicited such universally negative reviews? Were these problem varieties just priced lower, or...

@jpmorris From where?

You guys have mentioned some of the 468 and 469 varieties, but what about Ampex Quantegy 467? There's a brand new reel of it on ebay that I could grab now if it's any good.

@Lt. Bob Yeah, I saw that. Ebay doesn't seem to have much from his list at the moment, or at least it didn't last night. I'm getting ready to check again. I saw a lot of the brands he mentioned when I searched last night, but any time I found the specific types he recommended they were the...

Well, I'm considering all possibilities at this point, but like I said, I've had this same thing happen with totally unused tape as well. What kind of circumstances might cause a new reel of tape to do that? When it first started happening, I examined the tape for wrinkles in the areas where I...

I guess I'll look for those other kinds on ebay. I'm not seeing any of them in the size I need right now. I'll check again tomorrow.

@Beck: Some of the tape was new and some was used, but I was never able to detect a substantial difference between the new and used, in terms of dropouts. They pretty much all did it at some point during the first use. The only tape spool I bought that did not have a single dropout anywhere on...

I've never actually used a digital machine. I upgraded to reel to reel from a vestax six track cassette machine. I've owned it for eleven years and never had a single problem with it. I bought the reel to reel unit on the recommendation of a couple friends, both of whom said they never had...

Thanks. That's good stuff to know. I've been trying to keep the heads and tape path as clean as I can, but if there's something leaving a constant trail of debris on them, I think I know what the culprit is. I bet most of the debris is coming from the rubber roller. A while back I...

Thanks.

@bouldersoundguy: The band is called pigeon, but you'll want to use pigeon2 as the URL prefix, because i think there is another band with the same name on there already. The song is just listed as "sample of crappy, flickering tape sound". It's drums and a scratch guitar track. The really...

I have a Tascam MSR-16, and I've always had problems with the signal dropping out when I play back my recording, but in the last year or two, it's gotten to the point where I can't even get a solid 3 minutes out of the unit before it does it again. Sometimes they are momentary. Sometimes they...