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What do you mean by glitch? A drop out? or momentary distortion?

I thought that was just typical of DATs. They can be so problematical.

Joe Salerno
Industrial Video Services
PO Box 273405
Houston Texas 77277-3405

David Lennick 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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