All Horch House reel-to-reel tapes are shipped with an information sheet on tape care. Handling your hand-made Horch House master tape copy:

Dear Music Friends,

Thank you for purchasing your high-quality master tape copy. You’ve received a hand-made product produced on the best and perfectly maintained STUDER tape recorder.

Please follow some important guidelines to ensure that this product will bring you joy for a long time.

• The tapes are delivered ‘tail out’. This means that you need to rewind the tapes to the start before playing them. You can tell this by the yellow lead tape that marks the end of the tape and the red/white one that marks the start of the tape. This form of storage reduces the ‘pre-echoes’ caused by the copy effect. Always store your tapes ‘tail out’.

• If you do not play your master tape copy very often, we recommend rewinding it once per year to prevent copy effects.

• A master tape copy should only be played back on well-maintained tape recorders. It is very important to clean the tape-conducting elements and to demagnetise the device according to its respective service manual. This should be done every time before you play a master tape copy. It will ensure that you can enjoy your master tape copies for a long time.

• Perfect storage of your master tape copies is important for a long lifetime. Please make sure that your tapes are stored wound back (‘tail out’) and upright in the plastic bag and the box. A climate around 20 degrees celsius and with a relative humidity of 50% is best. Of course this is not possible in our apartments and houses. Find a good place that comes as close as possible to these conditions.