[peel] Re: Yet More 400 Box - This time 1985

Stuart Brooks stuartb@...
Sat Oct 10 12:55:48 CEST 2009


 

 



>It's weird because the files you upped sounded fine - it was only once in
soundforge that I could see the wave form was clipping.



>What I did with the worst ones was break the cases open, wipe all the mould
off with cotton wool buds soaked in alcohol hand gel (the chemist told me
they no longer stock Isopropyl Alcohol so that was the best I could manage).
Then if they were still >sticking, spray a bit of wd40 in the case...that
did the trick and didn't seem to affect sound quality

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My 400 box tracks didn't sound slow when I played them back so either my
deck is running fast and compensating or yours is slow!! Of some of the
other tapes from my old collection recorded on various decks I#'ve had to
either reduce speed by 2% or increase by 1.5%. 

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How did you seal the tapes back up?



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