[8mmOverdose]

awhile back someone posted here about wanting to bounce their pt mixes to DAT. i chimed in and basically said that DAT sucks, for the EXACT reason that sounsurfr has now run into. i worked at a duplication house and often had to transfer old DAT tapes to cd, many of which had been improperly stored and would do exactly what soundsurfr is talking about.

sometimes fast forwarding and rewinding several times would help, but switching to a different DAT machine never worked for me. we had 3 of them there and one at my studio.

my guess is that much like with analog tape, DATs just gets sticky when they are old or stored improperly. i know you can "bake" analog reels and usually get one more pass out of them, and i think there is some sort of goop you can use too. but as far as DATs, well i never did find an answer for that problem, and i actually still have old ones of mine that won't transfer without glitching.

so sorry soundsurfr, i have no solution for ya, just a bump.