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11 years, 6 months ago - Lynwood Shiva Sawyer

Hey, Graham,

Many thanks for responding so quickly.

I would guess about 1.25 hour 1/4" tape and 2 1/2 hour cassettes. But that's a good question. Only found out about project on Sunday and I haven't even unboxed them (but I do know where they are - and they've been stored at room temperature or below all these years.

Will let you know,

Lynwood (Shiva)

will do that this weekend and get back to you.

11 years, 6 months ago - Graham Jarvis

Where are you based and how many tapes do you have?

11 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Ugh, the glue will have softened by now, they are likely to be a bit sticky and block tape heads. May be cheapest to buy a tape deck and a load of head cleaner and do your own, then clean up in http://www.soundness-llc.com/soundsoap3.html Sound Soap (which is quite surprisingly powerful considering how simple the inetrface)

11 years, 6 months ago - Roland Heap

If the coating has begun to separate from the backing (which there is a strong chance of if they have been stored poorly for a number of years) then the tape will need baking professionally first - just attempting to play it could render the tape un-transferrable.

I'd strongly recommend FX Copyroom. http://www.fxgroup.net/copyroom - they are experts at this sort of thing and have pretty much every machine under the sun. I don't work for them but do respect them!