john_w
Miscreant
These old tape demag's.... does anyone use them?
Hope you can read the pics...
The erase head used in most decks for re-recording generally do a pretty good job. Unless you've got a bulk operation where you do a lot of double speed recording, I don't see a use for it myself.
Back in the 70's my dad used one of those for duplicating church sermons on a machine that did something like 8 tapes at a time, double speed, but the tapes had to be pre-erased.
I have a Nortronics Demagnetizer I bought in 1979 for 18 bucks. It is a good one.
Now if we could just get some info on what to oil and grease in the deck to keep it on top! :yes:
Thanks!
I've only used a Nortronics want myself so it's the only brand I know. It does a noticeably good job and it's recommended by some people I know who know what they're doing, so I stick with it.
robitaille03 - I don't know anything about that one that was on e-bay. I couldn't even find a brand name listed; just the model. But I'd still trust it over any cassette type.
Here's an exception to the usual advice of avoiding cleaning cassettes: I just picked up a "new" old truck with a nice cassette deck in it (well, for a car deck anyhow). Sounds like crap compared to the CD source. It won't ever sound as good as the CD player (for reasons other than the digital vs. analog arguement, which I wont get into here) but this is quite a huge difference with a well recorded tape. So I need to demag and clean it, then see if things improve. As far as cleaning, it doesn't look like I'm going to do much good without a cleaning cassette. Short of pulling it out and opening it up, that's really the only way I know of to clean those.