Date:         Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:12:00 -0400
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Subject:      Re: Glitchy dats
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Hi, David,

My advice: send the glitchy DATs to Dennis at NXT Generation in PA.

http://www.nxtgentech.com/

He does his transfers on opened machines doing things like watching 
eye patterns n' stuff.

I thought I was going to learn how to do this, but decided against it 
when I found out he was already doing it.

Oh, and what Marie said <sigh>

I found worst problems with TDK DATs.

Cheers,

Richard

At 11:41 AM 8/3/2006, you wrote:
>I've been sent a load of DATs to transfer to CD for auditioning, and I find
>that a number of them dating from 1996 have glitches. I don't know if there's
>one brand more prone than others since I'm not monitoring consistently, but
>they do seem to turn up on Sony PDP-124s. Anyone have similar experiences? Any
>thoughts on whether this was a bad brand (I had problems with it myself) or if
>it was a matter of us not thoroughly erasing the tapes before using 
>them or not
>fast forwarding or rewinding them before using them?
>
>dl

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