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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Baking Tape |
| Date | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:36:35 -0500 |
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At Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:30:14 Ryan wrote:
>I've baked maybe 12 or so reels over the years. The studio I worked at had
>a large archive going back to the late 40's. Every tape played fine out of
>the box except for the Ampex formulations from the early 80's, which all
>developed the dreaded sticky-shed. Nasty stuff. Baking did the trick, but
>you had to make sure you did it for long enough or you'd end up really
>caking up your machine heads. You usually have to re-do any edit splices as
>well, which is a time-consuming pain.
I recommend our very own David Bradley from this very list. He has a pro
service that does this type of work and has been instrumental in recovering
material that we feared lost on dozens of projects. He'll be handling the
masters for Segarini's "Goodbye LA" re-issue shortly.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
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