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From: brent@itm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: hearing songs before they start
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 11:49:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 29 11:49:59 1984
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    About audio tape print-through.  It prints through both before
and after.  Usually the pre-print is worse than the post-print because
the flux is greater on the front of the oxide than on the back.  It
is for this reason that archivally stored mag tapes are usually stored
"tails out"; i.e. in need of rewinding.  This puts the stronger print-
through image after the sound, where is is usually more masked by
recorded ambient sound.

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            Brent Laminack  (akgua!itm!brent)