Topic: Recorded on DAT now BLANK????!

[Md2545]

So last night I was taping a quartet and I ran my D8 instead of my d100. My D8 is an older maching but I like using it because it is alot quieter than the D100. Right before the first set I had my machine not accept the tape I kept loading it and loading it and finally it started to record. I made sure everything was ok levels, not in pause mode and everything looked to be running smoothly. Now back at the house last night I go to rewind alittle of the tape to listen to my work but the deck will only rewind 3 seconds at a time before it shuts off. Open the fucker up to notice that the tape is wrapped around gears. With delicate hands I got the tape out, rewound it, popped it into my D100 and nothing, says the tape is blank. I know for a fact I was recording, I looked around this site and noticed that sometime machines can tape on the backside of the tape. Do you think this is a posibility or is there no media on the tape at all. Does everything in the deck need to line up to actually record. My levels said I was rolling and everything was going smoothly but I guess thats not the case now. I hope for the communitys sake the tape isn't a total waste. F.Y.I I was using new 90 Meter Fuiji tapes. Not sure if this problem is more common with meter tapes. Please help going back tonight to tape round two but, I actually want to hear them on tape this time.


MD

[red]

Unfortunately, it sounds like the dreaded DAT misload:

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,46870.0.html

[guysonic]

This has happened to virtually all DAT deck users at one time or another UNTIL they get wise to do a short 10-30 second TEST RECORDING with immediate check it's OK playback at the beginning of every newly loaded DAT tape.

D7/8 models are infamous for occasionally  misloading tapes, D100/M1 rarely have issues with loading tapes correctly; that's what all that noise is about with D100/M1 decks is they fully check everything is OK before recording. 

In this case I think you'll agree that some deck noise is better than 'deadly recorded tape silence!'

Tips regarding DAT and other type decks at: www.sonicstudios.com/tips.htm

[udovdh]

Maybe you recorded on teh back of the tape?

[Brennan]

Maybe you recorded on teh back of the tape?

Is that even possible?

[udovdh]

Maybe you recorded on teh back of the tape?

Is that even possible?

Where else would the audio go?
Reading reports on the web about misloading Sony D7/8/* decks I see mentions that if you don't eject the tape after recording but immediately clone the tape you can make a copy and thus save the audio.
If that is possible the tape is not too much damaged and was passed in a more or less correct orientation over the head.
So the only way is then that the tape was recorded on the back.