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BASF...good paperweights?
I fooled around with a couple of BASF "Performance 90s" this morning.
I think they'd be best used as paperweights! A hotter tape than Scotch 175 (the perennial baseline for 8 track), it's also a lot noisier than it is hot. I had a HELLUVA time getting any real good top end on this tape until I cranked the bias WAY down, showing that it's an easily coerced oxide...and that usually ain't good for noise OR frequency response. Good enough headroom, but I abandoned testing it when I started to get some strange dropouts and bad HF response on playback. Reason? The usual BASF/Rat Shack/Scotch bugaboo...peeling oxide! Yes, evidently these carts had been, at some time, exposed to some moisture, and promptly went about shedding oxide all over the solenoid contacts, head and capstan. There were "sparkles" inside after I opened the cart up, also, showing that the back coating was also starting to shed already. I had similar problems with the "Rat Shack Stupidtape," also made by BASF. Conclusion: Give it all to Noodles...if I hate it, he'll like it, and it'll gum up all his crummy cart machines! HA! dB |
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DoucheBoB wrote in message . ..
I fooled around with a couple of BASF "Performance 90s" this morning. I think they'd be best used as paperweights! A hotter tape than Scotch 175 (the perennial baseline for 8 track), it's also a lot noisier than it is hot. I had a HELLUVA time getting any real good top end on this tape until I cranked the bias WAY down, showing that it's an easily coerced oxide...and that usually ain't good for noise OR frequency response. Good enough headroom, but I abandoned testing it when I started to get some strange dropouts and bad HF response on playback. Reason? The usual BASF/Rat Shack/Scotch bugaboo...peeling oxide! Yes, evidently these carts had been, at some time, exposed to some moisture, and promptly went about shedding oxide all over the solenoid contacts, head and capstan. There were "sparkles" inside after I opened the cart up, also, showing that the back coating was also starting to shed already. I had similar problems with the "Rat Shack Stupidtape," also made by BASF. Conclusion: Give it all to Noodles...if I hate it, he'll like it, and it'll gum up all his crummy cart machines! HA! doucheBob We're still waiting for your list of best to worst blank tapes to use. How 'bout it ?? |
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