Wet Versus Dry Tape Cleaners…

Careful when using a dry cleaning tape in your digital multitrack machine! Obviously, dry cleaning tapes are useful, and you should use them when necessary. But, we’ve found that using a tape more than twice in a row (for example when trying to solve a dropout problem) will definitely put some wear on your machine’s heads. Dry cleaning tapes are abrasive; they remove 6-7 hours of head life for each 5 seconds the tape is "cleaning" (actually sanding or filing is probably more accurate) the head.