General tape / cassette talk here.

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By maxlevel
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@bez spun tape stock is excellent. Your beocord will probably use the holes on the top of each cassette to recognise which type it contains; type IV has the usual 2 left and right, plus two smaller slots in the centre. What might be happening with yours is, the line between iron and chrome tape mixtures is quite blurry as different formulas have different components which coat the base layer. It’s a way of improving the audio at low cost as chrome is more pricey. So your machine will confuse 1 and 2 because it can’t actually tell the difference unless you dial in a tape type yourself