There's also a problem with late era tape masters.
Tom Verlaine told me that when Elektra wanted to issue one of his solo records on CD (I think it was Words From The Front) they found the tape totally unusable despite being stored in a climate controlled vault.
Apparently the tape stock was so shitty at that time that tapes from the 50's stored in closet would be in better shape.
When all is said in done vinyl is probably the most stable storage medium yet invented - good thing the Library Of Congress spent millions transferring everything to DAT!
wow, interesting read, reminds me of this article from an old MIX mag that i have from the early 2000's about concerns of backing up tape masters and such and moving them unto digital from their analog counterparts....and then stuff like this happens where masters go missing or certains tracks are deadness and things dont work out as they thought they would...
the only way to retain the data is to have it all in physical form, not some mp3's or an HDD full of data, drives are physical the data on them on the other hand is a different story...
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Tom Verlaine told me that when Elektra wanted to issue one of his solo records on CD (I think it was Words From The Front) they found the tape totally unusable despite being stored in a climate controlled vault.
Apparently the tape stock was so shitty at that time that tapes from the 50's stored in closet would be in better shape.
When all is said in done vinyl is probably the most stable storage medium yet invented - good thing the Library Of Congress spent millions transferring everything to DAT!
the only way to retain the data is to have it all in physical form, not some mp3's or an HDD full of data, drives are physical the data on them on the other hand is a different story...