Great! Sounds like a lot of good stuff to go on from your post above.
I did try marking the heads with a highlighter (the only non perminant media at the time) and checked to see if contact was made evenly across the head by checking with a light. The tape wasn't even touching the very top area of the playback head and the recording head looked like the problem was there too but not nearly as bad. I had tried to check the wrap by applying pressure with a q tip around the heads and I did notice that pressure in general seemed to help quite a bit (albeit still more on one side
I'd say this is probably for sure all the fault of the guides being turned. The en-even, but consistant, wear is now even and consistant between the guides but the heads aren't lined up to them
The tape is definately not hitting the edges which is probably due to all the random tapes they had to play at the station. The wear area is more than wide enough for the tape.
So, a demagnetizer and an oscilloscope is in order when I get paid this week. I'll wait a week or two to get the cal. tape. Do I need anything else to align the heads to spec.?
Also how do you put more or less pressure on the tape head?
PS: I admittedly wound up fooling with the head adjustments after seeing how out of whack the head was
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I marked the origional position with a line in case I wanted to go back temporarily but I doubt I will.
I simply moved them for best 10khz response with decent luck. I'm not too worried since I'll have it dialed in soon anyways.
I'll run some more frequencies through as suggested and see what happens through the range now.