First time demagging my Ms16

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I looked in the manual and It recommends you use a teac e3 demagnetizer. I have the E1. Is this okay to use? Also do you all have any tips or anything? Thanks :)
 
Can't comment on the Teac demags. I recently bought a Han D Mag for our MCI. The tip I'll give you is to take a few "dry practice runs" with the demagger unplugged and get the feel for it before you do it for real. A demagnetizer CAN ruin your heads if used improperly. Make sure you keep it moving and don't go too slow or too fast. Make sure you're doing this well away from tapes and anything else that shouldn't have magnets near it.

Here's a short video starring the infamous Fletcher which you may find very useful as I did--in fact I downloaded it to a flash drive and put it on the studio computer for reference: The Meth Lab - Videos
 
Also do you all have any tips or anything? Thanks
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In addition to what briank just said, also make sure the power is off on the deck!! :eek:

Cheers! :)
 
YES absolutely, in the vid he says "or if it's on make sure it's in Input" but...seriously...just shut the deck off. My practice is to actually unplug the deck and leave the plug in front of the machine so I'm sure it's off and can't be powered on, I do this when I'm pulling cards or working in the PSU also.
 
I've demagged some of my machines before with power on ... on accident. And.. the meters pegged, but no damage afterward... I quickly stopped of course. So maybe I got lucky, but nothing was lost when I screwed up.

Quick question... sorry to interrupt... but can you use a Han D MAG on a 4 track cassette (I know this has been asked before... but could it really hurt?)? I have one and I also have an E-3... but if I can sell the E-3 that would be cool.. Just have the HAn D MAG for cassette deck and 1/4" mix deck. Sorry Allen... don't mean to screw the thread up... but it sounds like you will be fine with either demagger.

The Han D Mag definitely feels much more powerful...!!!!!
 
Peck said:
I've demagged some of my machines before with power on ... on accident. And.. the meters pegged, but no damage afterward... I quickly stopped of course. So maybe I got lucky, but nothing was lost when I screwed up.
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You were lucky. Extremely lucky! A normal AC powered demagnetizer puts out an equivalent signal of 20,000 on the vu meters which is enough to fry circuitry and blow amps and speakers should they be on too. The fact that this didn't happen in your case could be due to the wand being far enough away still when you realized what you had done or that the unit was an abnormally weak one.

This is definitely not a practice that anyone should try duplicating just because you had a golden horse shoe up your butt at the time! :D

Cheers! :)
 
"Golden horse shoe up my butt" that's awesome. I guess I was lucky. thx ghost.
 
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