I can't remember the terms but I think it was packing and sticktion on 2 inch. We spooked each tape front to back before use as they'd often been shipped on their side. The spooling made the tape uniformly packed and broke any tape to tape adhesion from storage. This made it go through the record cycle smoother without micro changes in tape tension.
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Mike
On 26 Apr, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 25, 2013, at 2:57 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > I'd heard over the years sense we got away from analogue recording formats and went to recording digital data on the tapes, around the D2 days and certainly with digibeta, the tapes actually got better performance after use. The theory was the heads passing over the tape actually smoothed out the surface of the tape which made for better performance.
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> I say:
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> Actually, this was true of analog tape as well. Recording Kate & Allie in the basement tape room of the Ed Sullivan Theater back in 1984, we'd found that shuttling the brand new tape through the machine seemed to lessen the number of dropouts seen later on the recordings. We'd have to FF/RW 10 60-min 1" reels for each show taping. We usually did two show tapings for each show on a Friday: an afternoon taping and an evening taping. 20 1-hour reels.
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