Re: [ARSCLIST] revisiting tape bakers

[Lou Judson <inaudio@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Hi Richard" to quote a phrae,

I deeply appreciate Your response, well thought out and clearly  
articulated, especially this quoted conclusion.

I am one of many who have successfully transferred hundreds of hours  
of otherwise unplayable tapes after s simple overnight baking at  
controlled temperature and with gentle cooldown.

There is no alternative to baking and digitiing economical enough for  
most people who have SSS tapes with material they wish to preserve.  
In fact, we are looking for some way to dispose of the tapes after  
transfer, as they are simply not archivable except as voluminous  
boxes of possibly sentimental but otherwise unusable materials! One  
studio will be able to halve its needed storage space once the  
archived analog tapes are disposed of. Who would want sticky  
unplayable tapes, and where can we put them other than landfill???  
That is a far more important question for some clients!

Thanks for speaking up for us in such a detailed and accurate way!

Lou

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Nov 7, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote:

Suffice it to say that there are multiple tape restorers on this list  
who are making EXCELLENT transfers after properly baking tapes.

When we last discussed this in April of this year on this list, I  
forwarded your message at that time to Dr. Bradshaw who responded  
privately to me -- with permission to use his quotes as I saw fit:

"Richardson's apparent conviction that his process would allow a tape  
to then [be] archived forever is absolutely ridiculous..."

Cheers,

Richard