Topic: Distortion dissappearing

[Per]

Has anyone experienced anything like this? I went to tape a show yesterday with my dpa4061>mps6030>d100 setup. Taping went ok, not the best position and loud crowd, but not what I'm wondering about.

After the show, I drive home and put it in my tascam da-20 deck to check it out. It sounds heavily distorted. Really crunchy, but not like anything digital (diginoise).  Levels were ok and nothing indicated that any distortion should appear. I was a bit pissed so I just left it in the player and went to bed.

Next day (today) I put it in the dat deck again and the distortion is gone. Sounds bassy, but the nasty distortion is totally gone. I'm kind of reliefed, but now I'm wondering what caused this. I think I loaded the tape several times in the da-20 and if something is not loaded properly, I sometimes get diginoise and not a totally distorted recording.

Anyway. Was just curious if anyone else have had this happen.

[guysonic]

I was a bit pissed so I just left it in the player and went to bed.

Next day (today) I put it in the dat deck again and the distortion is gone. Sounds bassy, but the nasty distortion is totally gone. I'm kind of reliefed, but now I'm wondering what caused this. I think I loaded the tape several times in the da-20 and if something is not loaded properly, I sometimes get diginoise and not a totally distorted recording.

Anyway. Was just curious if anyone else have had this happen.

Hard to tell for sure if you put the tape back in the D100 again, and then no distortions?   Anyway, my guess is your DA-20 had trouble reading the tape, and maybe later (for some reason) it could read the tape better, or maybe the heads are not as dirty after a rewind operation and this helped a marginal alignment match? 

In other words, the master tape is aligned to a different setting on the Sony deck, and this makes tracking less sure on other machines aligned to a different standard; actually a common problem solved with having BOTH machines aligned by a service tech to one standard.  www.prodigitalinc.com is one with good reputation for such service.

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[tapeworm48]

i would check your output cables.  i've had this happen to me before w/ my DA-20 as well.  it had taken care of the issue in my case.  hope that helps.

[Per]

took a cleaning tape and ran it in the da-20. Seems to be working fine. Thanks for the replies. First I thought my d100 was bad, but it plays fine in that.