On 19/12/2010 19:05, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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It's also good practice to store tapes 'tail out'. This helps prevent
print through at the start of something. In theory, at least. However,
you can insert leader tape before the start of the mod - or between
tracks. This ensures as near silence as you can get.

Gawd, this thread is dragging the depths of the memory...

I used analogue tape for well over half my working life, and still love
it. Although not blind to its shortcomings.

I have a couple of half-track stereo masters on 1/4" tape (7" spools),
recorded late-seventies / early-eighties, which do have leader tape
inserted between the tracks. Four musical tracks on each spool, IIRC. I
can't play them. I got a friend with the correct equipment to transfer
them to CD-DA for me.

I can still cope with pretty well any 1/4" tape here at home, with the
exception of 30 ips.

You can just spin them into the computer at 15ips and adjust the sample rate
to convert them...!