SteveM
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I've been reading Don Felder's book about the Eagles and at one point he goes into how the Eagles would track. They used MCI 24 track machines and mixers. The band would fill up about 3 reels, 2" tape of the song they were working on, all recorded to a click track, then the engineer would run through all the tracks finding the best drum parts in all the takes and cut them out of the takes until they had a complete drum track they were happy with. They would use that as the basic track and record all the other parts over. Don Felder said the tape was cut up so much it looked like a Zebra as it was spinning on the reels. Sometimes it would fall apart and they'd have to re-splice it.
Has anyone ever done editing like that? It seems like it would be difficult to do but I guess the tape moves pretty fast and you're dealing with just a fraction of a second and have some play room. How accurate do you have to be when splicing?
Has anyone ever done editing like that? It seems like it would be difficult to do but I guess the tape moves pretty fast and you're dealing with just a fraction of a second and have some play room. How accurate do you have to be when splicing?