Ampex mailing list archives?

[Carey Carlan]

A week or so ago I posted a panicky message about oxide flying off my 20+
year old tapes. Turned out then that the damaged tape was non-critical.

I've hit that problem again with a 30 year old tape that's worth salvaging.
It's spliced together from at least two concerts. Some of the tape is 407
family, and the rest is some lighter brown oxide that comes apart easily.

Scott mentioned soaking the tape. He also mentioned consulting the experts
on the Ampex mailing list.

I would assume this is one of the "time and again" questions for that
group. Is there an archive of the mailing list that I could read rather
than asking the same old question again?

If not, I'll subscribe and present my problem.

[Carey Carlan]

Carey Carlan > wrote in
:

> A week or so ago I posted a panicky message about oxide flying off my
> 20+ year old tapes. Turned out then that the damaged tape was
> non-critical.
>
> I've hit that problem again with a 30 year old tape that's worth
> salvaging. It's spliced together from at least two concerts. Some of
> the tape is 407 family, and the rest is some lighter brown oxide that
> comes apart easily.
>
> Scott mentioned soaking the tape. He also mentioned consulting the
> experts on the Ampex mailing list.
>
> I would assume this is one of the "time and again" questions for that
> group. Is there an archive of the mailing list that I could read
> rather than asking the same old question again?
>
> If not, I'll subscribe and present my problem.

I found it.

[Scott Dorsey]

Carey Carlan > wrote:
>
>I would assume this is one of the "time and again" questions for that
>group. Is there an archive of the mailing list that I could read rather
>than asking the same old question again?

Probably, but I don't know. It may only be usable by subscribers.

>If not, I'll subscribe and present my problem.

You should subscribe anyway if you use tape. ALSO, you need to go to this:
http://www.aes.org/events/121/papers/session.cfm?code=P20
and look for P20-3. If you can't get to it, ask the author
for a copy of the preprint. He's on the Ampex list.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Jay Kadis]

In article >,
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

> Carey Carlan > wrote:
> >
> >I would assume this is one of the "time and again" questions for that
> >group. Is there an archive of the mailing list that I could read rather
> >than asking the same old question again?
>
> Probably, but I don't know. It may only be usable by subscribers.
>
> >If not, I'll subscribe and present my problem.
>
> You should subscribe anyway if you use tape. ALSO, you need to go to this:
> http://www.aes.org/events/121/papers/session.cfm?code=P20
> and look for P20-3. If you can't get to it, ask the author
> for a copy of the preprint. He's on the Ampex list.
> --scott

Did you guys see P20-2? Tape baking causes permanent degradation of
playback? We should have been removing the back-coating instead?

NOW he tells us.

-Jay

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[Carey Carlan]

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in
:

> Carey Carlan > wrote:
>>
>>I would assume this is one of the "time and again" questions for that
>>group. Is there an archive of the mailing list that I could read
>>rather than asking the same old question again?
>
> Probably, but I don't know. It may only be usable by subscribers.
>
>>If not, I'll subscribe and present my problem.
>
> You should subscribe anyway if you use tape. ALSO, you need to go to
> this: http://www.aes.org/events/121/papers/session.cfm?code=P20
> and look for P20-3. If you can't get to it, ask the author
> for a copy of the preprint. He's on the Ampex list.

Subscribed the same day I posted this. I have a query in to Richard Hess
now.

Thanks to you, Mike Rivers, and others who directed me to get my pinch
roller retreaded. It solved the problem of the sliding Scotch 203 tape.