Topic: Any way to salvage a tape recorded on a DAT machine with bad tracking?

[Sean Gallemore]

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[MattD]

Clone it using the machine that recorded it as the source. That's about all you can do w/o some serious professional intervention, I think.

[Sean Gallemore]

Clone it using the machine that recorded it as the source. That's about all you can do w/o some serious professional intervention, I think.

I tried playing it on the machine it was recorded with and it still sounds awful

[temis]

I've done this a few times with my home DAT deck (Sony DTC-670) by adjusting the tape guides with a small screwdriver white the tape was rolling. I listened the tape and adjusted the guides to get rid of the "buzzsaw"-sound. Once it seemed fine I just cloned the tape!

It IS a pain in the ass and takes a lot of patience but if the tape is somethiing really important it is probably the only way. Of course you'll also lose the aligment on the deck but my deck was messed up already so that wasn't a big deal...

[Sean Gallemore]

I've done this a few times with my home DAT deck (Sony DTC-670) by adjusting the tape guides with a small screwdriver white the tape was rolling. I listened the tape and adjusted the guides to get rid of the "buzzsaw"-sound. Once it seemed fine I just cloned the tape!

It IS a pain in the ass and takes a lot of patience but if the tape is somethiing really important it is probably the only way. Of course you'll also lose the aligment on the deck but my deck was messed up already so that wasn't a big deal...

thank you for the advice. I'm not ready to screw with the alignment on my deck, but maybe in the future
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[marc0789]

back to MD, Schwilly!

[Sean Gallemore]

 

[seethreepo]

make sure to tension the tape to the deck

ie  ffWD it (all the way top the end even past blank space) and rewind  I've found that helps somewhat  with diginoise   especially on a tape recorded on 1\2 size heads  played back with full sized heads.