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Tape Tech / Re: Otari MX-5050BII Help--Playback Heads Funny During MRL Calibration Tape

« on: January 15, 2009, 06:46:55 AM »

For those following this saga, I'm sending the heads back to the guy I bought the deck off of and he's going to look at it. I noticed that channel 2 was much quieter overall and the highest reading I could get off the 1k mrl test tone was  about 1.5db while the manual called for 4db...so clearly something is wrong...

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Tape Tech / Re: Otari MX-5050BII Help--Playback Heads Funny During MRL Calibration Tape

« on: January 14, 2009, 09:01:33 AM »

Thanks I'll check that out tonight and post some pictures. How much would it cost to relap?

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Tape Tech / Re: Otari MX-5050BII Help--Playback Heads Funny During MRL Calibration Tape

« on: January 13, 2009, 10:52:27 PM »

Thanks for replying. It is definitely the higher frequencies. I just cleaned and demaged it very thoroughly and the level went up a bit but not anywhere near where it should be. 

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Tape Tech / Otari MX-5050BII Help--Playback Heads Funny During MRL Calibration Tape

« on: January 13, 2009, 07:31:39 PM »

So I picked up an Otari MX-5050BII recently and finally got around to calibrating it. . My problem: As I start playing the azimuth section of the MRL tape, it starts fine, but gets to certain frequencies and channel 2 stops playing back until the announcer comes back. There is no levels coming into the oscilloscope at all. The werid part is, when I switch the head to 4T (four track mode) the frequencies are there, even louder overall. Anybody familiar with this problem or maybe there's something about the heads I don't understand?