Re: [ARSCLIST] To bake or not to bake?

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is interesting. I heard somewhere -- cannot recall where -- that a humid environment like that, 
if it doesn't warp or otherwise damage the tape, will be more likely to prevent print-through. I 
think the theory is that the tape cannot be a tightly wound or stay as tightly wound due to heavy, 
moist air in and around it.

Print-through is the big problem I find with 1 mil tape. You're damned if you wound it tight and 
stored it right because it's likely to have print-through, but you're damned if you didn't because 
it's liable to have edge problems, general warpage or oxide-shed.

Then there's the latest pile of Scotch 111, circa mid-50's, I got in to transfer. No particular 
precautions taken, just proper winding and upright storage. Plays like the day it was made.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lewiston" <david.lewiston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] To bake or not to bake?


> For my analogue field recording I always used 1 mil tape (Scotch 203 & 207, Ampex 407) to get the 
> maximum recording time, 22 minutes, on a 5" reel at 7 1/2 ips.
>
> Seva recently transferred all my analogue field recordings to digital. He tells me that most were 
> in fine shape, despite my keeping them in Hawaii for decades without climate control.
>
> David Lewiston
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Olhsson" <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: August 14, 2006 12:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] To bake or not to bake?
>
>
> > Tom Fine wrote:
> >
> > > I was always told
> > > never to use 1 mil tape
> > > for anything critical like a master.
> >
> > When I first moved to California a few major label projects were being recorded at 30 ips. to 1 
> > mil tape. After 12" reels became common people switched back to 1.5.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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