rmg whose usin

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CRAP.

i know EA had some problems with the beta testing stuff they got too, similar to mine.

I have some of the 1/4" 900. when trying to set bias and hi freq eq i noticed that the high the level started dropping, and it kept getting worse as the tape kept moving. I cleaned the heads and tried again and it was fine, until about 30 seconds it started happening again.

So I suspected it was leaving something on my heads because cause of the drop in high frequency. So I shuttled the tape from head to tail while holding my finger against the insde of the tape. Sure enough there was brown residue and a shiny substance left on my finger.

I tried another reel of it that I had, and it wasn't as bad but still unstable and still shedding.

Anyhow, I threw up some AMPEX 499 I had laying around and worked like a charm.

So as far as im concerned, it's crap. I may have had a bad batch I guess.


mike
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