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