[runnamucks]

Hello, I was just doing a session on a Tascam MS-16 and everything was going okay, until a guitar suddenly wouldn't play back at the proper volume. Everything was going into the machine, but when I looked at the VU meter during playback, there wasn't anything there.

I looked under the tape at the heads and there were hair-lenth shreds of tape sticking to the record head. I cleaned it off and then tracked. Everything was okay. Then we did another song and decided to re-track the trouble song. THE SAME THING HAPPENED! Is this song cursed, or what?

I just demagnetized my tape heads and cleaned them right before this session. I've been using this tape machine since 2003 and have never had a problem like this. I just switched degaussers... used to have a Tascam E-3, now I've got the Annis Han-D-Mag 115.

Does anybody know what the hell is going on here? Is this a magnetization problem? Am I screwed???? Please let me know if you have any advise. -Josh Dobbs