| I bought a 1/4" reel of RMGI SM468 and it has been shedding pretty bad... it's usable if I clean the heads a lot but it's sheds waaaay worse than the Quantegy tape I'm used to.
I love the fact that I can record hot and get some really good tape compression out of this SM468 formulation though... like it doesn't distort in the way other tapes do... everything just sounds clear and compressed if I hit the tape hard.
I've been thinking about switching to the ATR tape but it's is a +10.25 operating level tape. I'm afraid I won't be able to saturate that tape due to the high operating level and I like to do that a lot when recording for a vintage sound. Can anyone here confirm if the ATR tape will still saturate like other tapes? Will I not get as much saturation as I get when using +6 tapes? |