
A Reel Person
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I think...
I think somewhere on this thread Beck stated Scotch 250 is sticky-prone.



I think somewhere on this thread Beck stated Scotch 250 is sticky-prone.



Any ideas on 84 Scotch 3M 250? Sticky prone?
Buy a lottery ticket, dude!Well, I went through the whole reel. Stuff sounds like the day I recorded it. No pitch problems, no slowing up, no squeal, no stopping, and clean heads. I'm amazed. I got lucky.
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Well, I went through the whole reel. Stuff sounds like the day I recorded it. No pitch problems, no slowing up, no squeal, no stopping, and clean heads. I'm amazed. I got lucky.
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I haven't been concerning myself with running sss tapes in a while. It's a very simple matter to avoid sss tape. All back coated Ampex, Scotch/3M, SONY and all of the off brand tapes those companies made tape for in the 70's through to the early 90's will be sticky period. All back coated Quantegy tape is fine as is Maxell, BASF and the two current producers ATR and PYROL. There may be the odd reel of offending tapes that will play but these are time bombs and will go off sooner or later. Unless those sss tapes mentioned are being offered dirt cheap the PIA they represent is hardly worth the so called bargain.
And here I thought you were going to once again recommend rubbing Nu Finish car polish on SSS tapes to "fix" them.![]()
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"All backcoated Ampex..." Hm, News to me.
Guess I better get busy pitching that storage room full of 499 then?
But Qunategy is AOK and they called 499 GP9.
Huh...?
How do you mean that?
Quantegy 499 and Quantegy GP9 are two different tapes.