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Re: Baking a tape to "stabilize" the sound?
it won't fix the whoosh.
over time, stored tapes can have a weak magnetic pull affecting them on one side or the other (could be a speaker, electrical line or many other things). After years of sitting in the same place, that electro-magnetic disruption has the effect of skewing the bias on the one side of the reel to be different that the other. When the tape plays back in a linear fashion, you get:
good-fadeto-bad-fadeto-good-fadeto-bad
over and over
usually, the tape is screwed when you have this problem
in some cases, an azimuth adjustment can minmize the problem.
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