Home Tape Trail

Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

Best most prudent advice - dump them

Baking is the last resort measure, when you must play that tape at least once, so you could dub it. It might bring an improvement, but only a temporary one.

In some cases it will actually make the tape literally fall apart.

So get rid of them.

I don't deal with it, I don't need any more complications in my life. I recently dumped three brand new, unopened Ampex 10" tapes, just kept the reels and the boxes. This is sad reality. So I only use good stock.

If you need inexpensive but good tape to record on your Sony, buy some 7" BASF reels that come in their gray plastic boxes, it is great, does not shade and can be had for pennies.


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