[Vintage-Audio] Re Ampex Tapes

[Roy Morgan]

>  Do any of you 'know' for sure which batches of the Ampex reel to reel 
> audio tape
>had the problem of gumming up the heads on the tape deck?  I have two new 
>3,600
>foot ten inch reels of back coated, studio quality tape here, number 
>373173111.
>This was expensive when purchased in the late seventies or early eighties. 
>Is it
>the good stuff or the stuff that messed up machines? Thanks.

Steve Smolian does.

The web site of Smolian Sound Studio:
<http://www.soundsaver.com/>
used to have information about this problem with certain tape materials. I 
cannot now find that on his site and so have copied this message to 
him.  He may reply about where that information is now.

I will be happy to forward any information I get to the mailing list.

Roy


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