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Re: Baking Tapes



I believe that sticky reel-to-reels ("sticky-shed syndrome") can be baked and played back more than once.
Anyone else have an authoritative rule on this?

-josh


        joshua kretzu
Provident Music Group Archives
Tele: 615.261.6677
jkretzu@providentmusicgroup.com



-----Original Message-----
From:   Daniel Sokolow
Sent:   Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:36 PM
To:     ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject:        One more Onion article

It's OK, I'm checking it on my lunch hour.

This article is an interview with Dr. Demento (I won't bother to explain -
if you don't know who he is, you probably don't want to), in which he
describes (briefly) his struggle to organize his enormous collection of
records/cds/etc., including his attempts to use old reel-to-reel tapes.

Incidentally, he mentions a technique for sticky reel-to-reels - baking them
to remove the sticky stuff.  You can only do this and play them once,
because apparently they'll only survive one playing.  I had heard of this
once before - Tom Petty released a box set several years back containing
numerous unreleased songs, which he recovered the same way.

Maybe there's a connection to be made here - archivists & Hotpoint? :)

http://avclub.theonion.com/index.html

I think you'll have to click the link at the top to the Dr. Demento article.

DS
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