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Mike Cohn <imix4u@io.com> wrote:
>I am on my second DA-30 MkII DAT machine.  They keep munching tapes on me. Both had less than 20 hours on them. Anybody else 
>having troubles?  What else should I consider for a pro-mastering deck?

Well... I've used a Panasonic 3700 for 5 years with nary a tape eaten.  Others I know have had carnivorous 3700's.  I haven't used t=
he Tascam, but I would take a hard look at the brand of tape you're using.  If it's Ampex I'd try another brand before I changed dec=
ks.  In fact, whatever brand your using could be the problem.

When we first got our ADATs we used only ampex tape on the advice of Alesis and the dealer.  When we encountered bad batches we had =
problems ranging from simple munching to the oxide literally glazing the heads on our machine.  One particularly bad batch was so lo=
ose that after one pass through a machine to dump the audio onto a different brand the heads had to be cleaned of the caked on Ampex=
 muck.

-d-