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Re: blank DAT

Subject: Re: blank DAT
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:57:06 -0600
At 5:59 PM +0000 1/20/04, klr_a4 wrote:
>Yes, my old Sony D3 would misload at the most inopportune times.
>As a preventive measure against missing a once in a lifetime
>recording, I would record a few minutes of signal, rewind and make
>sure it would play back immediately before commencing a recording.

I agree, especially if I pause it in the test play mode and go 
directly into record-pause without reloading.  Kind if a pain. 
Conall, do you ever get this with your M1? Rob D.


>Then I would try to transfer the tape to another tape before ejecting
>the tape.
>The things we do in lieu of not being able to monitor the tape!!
>
>Conall
>SV3700
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>TC-D3,M1,TC-D10 Pro ll
>Sonic Studio mics
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>--- In  "Wayne Brissette"
><> wrote:
>>  klr_a4  on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 stated:
>>
>>
>>  >regarding your blank DAT tape...it may be that the tape was not
>fully
>>  >rewound to the beginning, so you have no absolute time written to
>the
>>  >very beginning of the tape. If you rewind the tape to the
>beginning
>>  >and find there is no absolute time written, and the tape counter
>mode
>>  >is set to display absolute time, than that is the problem.
>>
>>
>>  The other possibility is the D8's infamous misload. There are reams
>of
>>  posts on recording boards about this problem and it seems to be very
>>  common among the Sony D7 & D8 models. For the two years I used the
>D8, I
>>  never had one, but lot of folks have, so this is another
>possibility. If
>>  you look up some of those posts, take a look at either <http://
>>  www.oade.com/Tapers_Section/index.html> or
><http://www.taperssection.com/
>>  yabbse/>.
>>
>>  Wayne
>>
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