Scrubbing

[238839]

Please explain what "scrubbing" is in very simple layman's terms.

Is it where there is a mistake on a track and it allows me to isolate and erase it?

Thanks...NOOB!

 

[Dogbreath]

yeah...I've heard it in that text and I've heard people say it when they're using the jog wheel.

(which is a small wheel on alot of boards that let you rotate the tune forward and backward allowing you to zero in on a certain edit.)

 

[Erockrazor]

Scrubbing is moving the playback forwards or backwards at your command.

I believe it was originally called scrubbing on reel to reels while spinning the reels with the playback heads on. This would enable you to hear the section of the tape in which you would want to splice.

So it is playing or rewinding at your own speed. Like using a jogwheel, you could scrub slowly or quickly to find the edit. I'm pretty sure that's the premise of scrubbing.

Scrubbing is also something you might be found doing as an intern.

Both audio related...

Good luck! Eric

 

[legionserial]

That pretty much sums up scrubbing, manually moving the tape with the tape head on it, or the play-line on the sequencer grid, so you can hear what's going on as you do it. Often done with a jogwheel, but also, in digital recording, there are scrub settings in sequencers where you can hold the mouse pointer over a track, hold the left button down, and it will play as you move the pointer over the track, at the speed you move it, and in the direction you move it.

I guess it's called scrubbing because if you go back and forwards quickly, it sounds like scrubbing.

Kinda similar to record on a turntable.

 

[Erockrazor]

I guess it's called scrubbing because if you go back and forwards quickly, it sounds like scrubbing.

I think it's called scrubbing because on a reel to reel you would push the tape in a circular motion, much like scrubbing. But you may indeed be right, since it does sound like scrubbing. Either way, I think we covered the basis.

 

[238839]

Thanks!

Thanks all for helping me out. I have a Boss BR-900CD that I am really beginning to like although it can at times be challenging with all the scrolling and re-reading the manual over and over. When I came to the scrubbing part I was mystified because it just doesn't explain why you would need to do this. There are a few minor mistakes on a couple of tracks that I want to isolate and erase but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. I thougth scrubbing might allow me to do this but no results yet...thanks again.

 

[dastrick]

Please explain what "scrubbing" is in very simple layman's terms.

It's what your mother tells you to do behind your ears.