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Hi there,

Years ago, when CD's were new, I saw a show on MTV or V-H1 where they showed the process record labels went through to re-master recordings for CD which were formally only found on Vinyl.

I seem to remember they had an oven they used to bake the tapes in before transporting them to the studio. The temp was around 200 or 225 yet I can't recall for how long. The idea was that it somehow sped up the electrons on the tape for a better tranfer to digital.

Has anybody heard of this and know the specific details of how and why?

Happy Reverbs!
Spanky

The URL below is about the best discussion on baking tapes. Makes it reasonably simple. I bought one of the dehydrators, but have only used it for apricots at this time. Should work great with 10" reels, but 7" reels may require modification of one of the trays.

http://www.wendycarlos.com/bake%20a%20tape/baketape.html

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www.willisclow.com
www.slajo.com

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