terribletraffic
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Hi guys,
I've been recording with my Tascam tsr-8 for a few weeks and its been working really well. I had to buy some brand new tape (3 of them) - RMG SM900 - and I've been using the first reel of it, all working well. Then yesterday, i started using the second, having transferred the tape from the pancake on to a good metal reel. shell, but in order to do that, I had to take some AMPEX 456 (year made was 1992) off its nice metal reel shell, and i just played the tape on to another pancake, because i hate throwing stuff away, even though i know the tape is unusable. Obviously, i got loads of oxide on the heads because of that, but i washed it off with isopropyl and cotton buds. The heads were then clean, looking like they did before, when i was recording on it before I did this swap around. Then I got to recording on to this second reel and it is just either not recording on to certain tracks, or playback will start and then it will just suddenly stop, but the reels keep spinning, and i know that my recording was absolutely fine because the LEDs were working. WHats going on??
Then, I have just been trying to work out the problem, so went back to the first reel of tape that I bought, that i know works, and began to do the test oscilater check on it, recording the signal on to each channel individually, and they are all recording but the signal that is playing back is around -7/-5db for channels 1 to 7, when i put the signal in at -3db. BUT then on channel 8, when I put the signal in to that one, the signal is absolutely full, as in up at +6, and I have checked the wires, and have not changed any of the levels of the oscillator. I record that, and it comes back just as hot.
Anyone got any ideas??????
I've been recording with my Tascam tsr-8 for a few weeks and its been working really well. I had to buy some brand new tape (3 of them) - RMG SM900 - and I've been using the first reel of it, all working well. Then yesterday, i started using the second, having transferred the tape from the pancake on to a good metal reel. shell, but in order to do that, I had to take some AMPEX 456 (year made was 1992) off its nice metal reel shell, and i just played the tape on to another pancake, because i hate throwing stuff away, even though i know the tape is unusable. Obviously, i got loads of oxide on the heads because of that, but i washed it off with isopropyl and cotton buds. The heads were then clean, looking like they did before, when i was recording on it before I did this swap around. Then I got to recording on to this second reel and it is just either not recording on to certain tracks, or playback will start and then it will just suddenly stop, but the reels keep spinning, and i know that my recording was absolutely fine because the LEDs were working. WHats going on??
Then, I have just been trying to work out the problem, so went back to the first reel of tape that I bought, that i know works, and began to do the test oscilater check on it, recording the signal on to each channel individually, and they are all recording but the signal that is playing back is around -7/-5db for channels 1 to 7, when i put the signal in at -3db. BUT then on channel 8, when I put the signal in to that one, the signal is absolutely full, as in up at +6, and I have checked the wires, and have not changed any of the levels of the oscillator. I record that, and it comes back just as hot.
Anyone got any ideas??????