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Re: [ARSCLIST] scotch 227
I'm right now transferring one of two Scotch 227's from 1986 (10.5" reels). Baked 12 hours, cooled
12 hours in the American Harvest air oven. No residue on the tape path of my Technics 1500, which I
used to run though so as to get a good, even wind. Now transferring on my Ampex AG-440B and it
sounds darn good. I'm very surprised it turned out so well because I was afraid it was stuck for
good. This is a pair of tapes I did not want to lose. Of course, high-resolution transfer because
I'm not optimistic they'll play this well a second time.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bridavsky, Michael G" <mbridavs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] scotch 227
UPDATE:
I re-baked the 227 for 24 hours straight, followed by a 32 hour cool
down, and the tape played well from head to tail.
Thanks for the advice!
mike
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Michael Bridavsky
Audio Engineer
Digital Audio Archiving Project
Indiana University School of Music
Office: 812-855-6061
Cell: 812-327-7939
-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Lennick
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:14 PM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] scotch 227
Parker Dinkins wrote:
on 3/30/06 4:51 PM US/Central, David Lennick at dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> One thing I'd add to this (which is interesting..I'd never seen
anything
> about allowing them to cool for 12 hours)
Actually in 1999 an engineer at Quantegy asked that I advise website
visitors that the cooldown period should be 24 hours:
> allow them to cool to the control room environment for 24 hours
prior to
> working with the tapes. This allows the tapes to cool, relieves pack
stresses,
> gives the binders time to re-adhere to the base film, and allows
residual
> lubricants deep in the layers of the tape to exude to the surface to
make the
> tapes runnable.
It's at
http://www.masterdigital.com/24bit/analogtape.htm#anchor1163399
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Parker Dinkins
MasterDigital Corporation
CD Mastering + Audio Restoration
http://masterdigital.com
Now, what about these people who swear by a vegetable hydrator or a
drawer
with 60-watt light bulbs in it or a copper bracelet or an exorcist?
dl