Distortions can easily render time code useless, particularly with marginal readers.
By eliminating amplitude distortions and level fluctuations reshapers can often recover unreadable code. Reshaping code while dubbing it from one tape machine to another eliminates the signal degradations that would result from a direct transfer. This feature makes it often possible to recover unreadable code by reshaping it, almost as if it was regenerating over drop outs. These adjusted levels remain constant regardless of input level fluctuations. North La Brea Ave.