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My reply is completely off-topic to looping. On Aug 6, 2012, at 8:51 AM, richard sales wrote: > I recently reacquired my old tape recorders back so I could remix, > resuscitate & at least digitally archive (without the 80's gated > reverbs, crummy EQ etc ) some of my works of antiquity. > Need to get the machines back up to speed. Need to bake the tapes. I'd > be interested in this. Don't reckon it would be smart to use the same > dehydrator we use for food! Isn't the tape baking thing specific to a certain brand of tape for particular years in the 70s? I think it requires a special oven and temperature. You can't just stick this in your cooking oven. Well, maybe you can, but I would research it a bit or you may permanently ruin a tape. Out of about 45 two inch tapes that I transferred in the 90s, I had one that was impossible. It wouldn't even do one pass of one song on my MCI 24 track, which had pretty strong motors, without just grinding to a halt. There would be so much gunk on the heads that it took forever to clean it off, then the same thing would happen again. Luckily, there was nothing crucial to my life on that tape so I just gave up. I still have about 10 good 2" tapes left that I plan to sell on Yahoo Auction or throw out. And trashing is not easy, it took several tries to find a recycle company that would take them for the aluminum. The public trash company wanted about $5 a tape to throw out. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ edurbrow@sea.plala.or.jp