SPPS TUT REEL #31:
Tut Taylor & Norman Blake
Circa Early-1970s

1. Westgate
2. Pickin' Flat
3. Stevens Steel

The reel appears to be a BASF tape. There were three separate segments
rolled onto one reel, separated by paper leader. Each segment had one song.
The tape is a 7.5 inch per second quarter track recording. There is only about
eight minutes of music on this reel.

Because the reel suffered from sticky shed syndrome (also known as binder breakdown) commonly found on reel to reel tape manufactured in the 1970s to early 1980s, it was necessary to bake the reel before it could be played. The
reel was first baked at 135 degrees F for about four hours. It still exhibited
sticky shed syndrome and could not be played without damaging the reel. The
reel was then baked for a second time at 145 degrees F for about eight hours.
The reel played fine after the second baking.

The reel was played on a modified Revox A77 reel-to-reel machine with a
Reutelhuber custom designed and built tape head preamplifier incorporating 2003
era technology and components including all metal film resistors, polypropelene coupling capacitors, and low ESR electrolytic supply bypass capacitors. The
resulting analog signal was digitized by a Mytek Digital 8X96 analog to digital
converter using Steinberg Nuendo as the recording software and saved as a 24 bit
48 kHz wave file. Post processing and mixing was done by William Reutelhuber
with Nuendo using the following Waves Plugins: Q4, Q10, Rverb, and L2. The file
was dithered down to a 16 bit/44.1kHz wave file for additional editing between songs to remove dead space. Enjoy!
Tracked by Tom Jackson

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