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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    You can check the tape is not saturating and distorting, the heads are not magnetised and the tape is running smoothly.
    Nicely sums it up. This is the main benefit for me, tweaking on the fly enabling a degree of fine tuning by ear so you're not just reliant on the VU meters.
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    VU meters are pretty useless in most situations. The plasma type meters are better, you get a more instant reading. But they don't always show you problems. You need monitoring to check levels mostly.

    Distortion/Saturation is normally done by ear so have to be confident about the machine you are using and do plenty of test recordings especially if you are live. You need a feed from the sound board and record some final setting checks and you 'should' always listen to the tape output when live.
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