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on 3/30/06 4:51 PM US/Central, David Lennick at [log in to unmask] wrote: > One thing I'd add to this (which is interesting..I'd never seen anything > about allowing them to cool for 12 hours) Actually in 1999 an engineer at Quantegy asked that I advise website visitors that the cooldown period should be 24 hours: > allow them to cool to the control room environment for 24 hours prior to > working with the tapes. This allows the tapes to cool, relieves pack stresses, > gives the binders time to re-adhere to the base film, and allows residual > lubricants deep in the layers of the tape to exude to the surface to make the > tapes runnable. It's at http://www.masterdigital.com/24bit/analogtape.htm#anchor1163399 --- Parker Dinkins MasterDigital Corporation CD Mastering + Audio Restoration http://masterdigital.com