[ProAudio] Plangent playback, was: Re: FeralA - Recordings released encoded with Dolby A

[Scott Dorsey]

> I don't know whether the erase head records a signal on the tape at the
> erase frequency -- I've never tried running a recorder with the record 
> head disconnected.

Probably not; the erase head does not have a very sharply defined field.
The gap on the erase head is designed to get as much flux as possible onto
the track without leaking into other tracks, rather than to have nice sharp
edges in the direction of tape travel.
--scott