Erase Endless Tape Loops
In this article, the author will provide a list of the best ways to avoid having your tape loops that never end. They'll talk about how is effective it is to use one of these techniques and explain how to use them. You'll learn how you can lose tape loops forever!
Learn How to Erase Endless Tape Loops: Using These Techniques Is Effective Fun!
If you're like me, you might be cursed with a tape loop that doesn't seem like it's going anywhere anytime soon.
Every time you try to erase them, they come back.
It's frustrating, I know!
But there are ways to avoid this problem and it's the first step in doing so.
The best way to prevent creating a loop that can't be erased is to not create one in the first place!
Luckily, there are so many techniques out there that will help you avoid endless loops.
To get you started I've included a list of my favorite ways to prevent tape loops from ever coming into existence:
1.) Play On Volume Alone This is an easy way that requires only you and a tape machine. Simply set the tape to "on" and play your tape on the highest volume. You can also play it on one channel instead of both. This will cause your tape to loop, but it will no longer be endless. BACK TO TEXT
2.) Don't Erase On Auto Loop You might need to use a little bit of manual dexterity to know how to do this, but it's easy enough and is my second method for avoiding endless loops with my little Sony deck. Set the erase head to perforate mode and then listen for the noise that comes from tape rewinding itself. Don't erase until you hear it. BACK TO TEXT
3.) Make Your Tape Really Loud You'll find this to be a little bit more difficult than the above two, but I'm sure that if you're willing to put in the effort you can get your tape to play back without ever stopping. If you can figure it out, let me know! BACK TO TEXT
4.) Find Out What Helps It Stop If you have a tape that has been around for a while, chances are it has matured and will have broken down before it could have looped again. However, if you have a brand new tape that has never looped before, this might be the case. So, what music will you put on your tape and what should it be playing at? The answer to both questions is the same and will make all your work so much easier: BACK TO TEXT
5.) Look For The Tongue Once you've learned how to play a tape on a regular basis, practice with different tapes. Try to find a type of tape that doesn't have an auto loop function and get used to it. After all, anyone can drive around town playing their favorite CD's (like I do). Nope, it takes a special kind of person to make tapes that won't auto loop. And these people are the best at avoiding an endless loop. BACK TO TEXT
6.) Find A New Way To Use It This is the hardest technique of all and might just take some time and practice, but you can learn a new way to play a tape and have it not auto loop again. It's not often that you find yourself creating another type of tape for one reason or another, but there are many different ways to do your job. Try learning how to play your favorite tunes on a tape recorder and not an actual stereo. Or try learning how to talk into a speaker and play it back in the same room. These are just two examples, but there are many other ways to change up the way you would normally use a tape loop. BACK TO TEXT
7.) Use A Different Format Tape If any of these techniques don't work for you for some reason, it's time to try another method that involves making your tape machine do something different than it does now. Because you're dealing with a tape loop, you can bet that the mechanism on your machine is doing what's called a "scratch" function whenever you play it. This is when the tape starts rewinding itself and is almost impossible to hear at that point. So have fun with this, but try to make sure whatever method you use doesn't involve anything else being done with that part of your machine.
Most importantly, make sure not to erase your tape before it stops! BACK TO TEXT
Simple Techniques To Prevent Endless Tape Loops I've provided a number of techniques here and they're all relatively easy ways to avoid endless tapes. The best thing is- they're all free! BACK TO TEXT
With that, I've learned many techniques over the years and have found them to be effective. Just make sure you don't let your tape loops get out of hand, keep them short, and you should be fine. BACK TO TEXT
1.) Don't create tape loops! If you're more creative than me and can come up with an endless loop that is functional, then by all means go ahead and make one. But I'm not that creative so I can't simply create my own so it's only logical that I don't have any. BACK TO TEXT
2.) Play on volume alone! This is an easy way that requires only you and a tape machine. Simply set the tape to "on" and play it on the highest volume. You can also play it on one channel instead of both. This will cause your tape to loop, but it will no longer be endless. BACK TO TEXT
3.) Don't erase on auto loop! You might need to use a little bit of manual dexterity to know how to do this, but it's easy enough and is my second method for avoiding endless loops with my little Sony deck. Set the erase head to perforate mode and then listen for the noise that comes from tape rewinding itself. Don't erase until you hear it. BACK TO TEXT
4.) Make your tape really loud! You'll find this to be a little bit more difficult than the above two, but I'm sure that if you're willing to put in the effort you can get your tape to play back without ever stopping. If you can figure it out, let me know! BACK TO TEXT
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Conclusion
I've provided a number of techniques here and they're all relatively easy ways to avoid endless tapes. The best thing is- they're all free! Also, if you have any techniques of your own, feel free to share them! BACK TO TEXT
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