GF 999 tape sound suddenly muffled

moshenskmz

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Was sounding beautiful for the last month and suddenly today, the tape sound is super muffled. I cleaned heads and still no luck. Any thoughts on what could have cause this sudden sound quality change? When I play radio its back to beautiful so def related to tape decks. Thanks!!!
 

Fatdog

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You probably need to demagnetize the heads. Do that first, and then adjust the azimuth to see if that helps too.
 

moshenskmz

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So i ordered a demagnetizer, but in the mean time I cleaned the heads, and used one of those cassette style demagnetizers and it worked! Back to Boom! Thanks guys!
 

Fatdog

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moshenskmz said:
So i ordered a demagnetizer, but in the mean time I cleaned the heads, and used one of those cassette style demagnetizers and it worked! Back to Boom! Thanks guys!
Glad to hear that you got it sorted! Rock on, brother! :thumbsup: :rock: