Roozter
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Sound like the OP has heads that have a groove worn in them if he's getting "shed flying down on to the machine, and piling up quickly". His tape lifters also may not be working correctly if he hears it in his headphones. If his worn heads are the cause of the shedding then he risks tape edge damage-track 1 and 8 and the tape skewing in and out of the groove causing fading audio on the edge tracks. Re- lapping can fix that- no amount of new tape will fix it. How badly are the heads worn? Can you feel a lip at the edges of the tape width groove worn in the heads? If his machine was "serviced by Teac",it was done over 6 years ago,because there has been no service at Teac- all service is outsourced- since Gibson bought them in 2013. As long as the Op is doing his own recording. it's fine if he fiddles around with his machine,but a paying client won't tolerate it.
Thank you for this post, this is the kind of dialogue I was hoping for.
Update. We fixed the issue in 10 minutes and were still using old stock tape, albeit a different tape. Same issue occurred with the other tape until we fixed the problem. PM me if you want the details. I don't feel the need to post on the forum anymore after this since Im being personally attacked at this point by someone who thinks I'm "stupider" for continuing to disagree with them, and miroslav cant comprehend that he advised me to buy "other" NOS tape besides 206/207 some years ago since it's so rare (I wonder why) and I couldn't source it, and now he's telling me to buy new tape now that I have it, and avoid anything that wasn't made recently. I guess when the new tape started having the same issue he would have suggested dumping my perfectly good machine and buying another one as if the people on the analog forums didnt actively buy up and use old tape all these years successfully. Not all of us have a money tree we can go out and shake any time something goes wrong.
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