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analog r2r tape editing. What a pita!
back as far as '78 til '90 i recorded a lot of the bands i was in with my akai 4 tracker. if live music or practice sessions, etc, i'd fill a whole tape or 2.
but with original music i'd record 1 song, once in a while 2 or 3, on a 1200/1800 ft reel and that was it.
the next session i'd open up a fresh reel.
mostly using the four tracks (quad, if you will). some stereo mixdowns.
so now i've got maybe 25 or so 7" reels of maxell udxl whatever and today decided to consolidate a bunch of those songs on to as few reels as possible.
just finished putting the songs on 5 reels down to 3 using the gx230d as i don't want to wear out the good decks.
but it was cut, splice, figure where you are, ff/rw/ff/rw, cut, splice, eff it up, do it again, ff/rw/ff/rw, over and over til i got it right, blah, blah, blah....
they still sound great tho!
so now i'm exhausted. that's hard work, mentally anyway. too much strain on the brain.
~20 reels to go.
back as far as '78 til '90 i recorded a lot of the bands i was in with my akai 4 tracker. if live music or practice sessions, etc, i'd fill a whole tape or 2.
but with original music i'd record 1 song, once in a while 2 or 3, on a 1200/1800 ft reel and that was it.
the next session i'd open up a fresh reel.
mostly using the four tracks (quad, if you will). some stereo mixdowns.
so now i've got maybe 25 or so 7" reels of maxell udxl whatever and today decided to consolidate a bunch of those songs on to as few reels as possible.
just finished putting the songs on 5 reels down to 3 using the gx230d as i don't want to wear out the good decks.
but it was cut, splice, figure where you are, ff/rw/ff/rw, cut, splice, eff it up, do it again, ff/rw/ff/rw, over and over til i got it right, blah, blah, blah....
they still sound great tho!
so now i'm exhausted. that's hard work, mentally anyway. too much strain on the brain.
~20 reels to go.
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