[ARSCLIST] To bake or not to bake?

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

With my small scale tape transfers, when I get radio airchecks (from a 
small nonprofit I used to work for) I always bake them before even 
trying them (just the other day I had one the had unbranded Shamrock 
junk spliced to Scotch 176, so I would have needed to bake half the 
reel), but now I have a few reels and woudl rahter not bake if not 
needed, as they are record label masters.

Ampex 456 from 1988
Scotch 206 and 207 from mid 70s
Scotch 226 mid 80s

What say the experts?

Thanks,

Lou

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull 
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you 
understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send 
signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that 
there is no cat.
Albert Einstein