Hi.
When you have finished your gig, your practice, your turn to play at your local Shads club and its time to pack up and go home, do you remove the tape from the echo? do you leave it on the drive capstan and heads,ie operating mode? do you just slip the tape off the tension bar capstan and leave it around the heads?
The reason I am asking is I myself have always removed the tape from the unit. I recently started to leave the tape on the unit, ie operating mode, just turning off the motor and mains. Doing this has caused quite an increase in the amount of junk build up on the heads. Noticed first on the sponge wipe swab, positioned just before the erase head on my unit. Could this be the heat from the unit softening the tape coating and sticking to the heads while still under tension but not operating? I dont know but it took quite a few cotton buds and Isopropyl to clean the heads. I have now reverted to removing the tape from the tension bar capstan but leaving the tape in place loose around the heads.
What do you do?
Regards Geoff.