What Happened To My Analog Tapes?

Since I’ve been pulling out my old analog machines I’ve had to deal with my sticky shed tapes and how I fixed them. The first part of this video gives a technical explanation about the causes of sticky shed syndrome in analog tapes and the cure for such problems. In the 2nd half of the video I play some old recordings from my past and have a few surprises. 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - Analog tape basics 1:20 - What causes sticky shed tape syndrome 2:06 - How to fix Sticky Shed Syndrome with a food dehydrator and preparing the unit 3:39 - Tape baking times and process 4:20 - Looking for my old track sheets while I’m waiting for tapes to bake 6:24 - Tape baking done 7:17 - Playing back the first reel of tape I baked 9:10 - My rediscovery of what it’s like to use an analog reel to reel machine and other silly stuff 10:53 - Playing back a song from my 2nd round of tape baking 12:29 - Playing back another song from the 2nd round of tape baking 15:33 - Calling a frien