antispatula
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Yeah, so I know it's used for cutting tape, but why? Editing? I don't know, can someone explain? Thanks a bunch!
I remember spending 4 hours with a friend editing songs together on a Revox B77 to make a 90 second promo for a show we were doing on the local community station. Probably a good 20 splices. Fun and satisfying, but very, very time consuming!The Ghost of FM said:Radio and TV commercial work done on analog decks in the good old days would also be a massive user of the splicing method to edit dialog takes together to form a 30 second spot.
You have to have a deck with an edit mode which allows the tape to be against the heads, with the lifter arms defeated so that when you hand "rock" or turn the reel, you can find the precise spot where the take starts or stops, mark it with a special pencil and then with a splicing block, which sets the angle of the cut point, you take your non-magnetized razor blade and cut the tape and discard the un-needed section of the tape.antispatula said:So how do you know exactly where to cut, and how do you use to connect two cut tapes?
Why sadly? Personally, I'm glad I don't have to waste my time splicing tape. I don't mean this as a flame, and hope I don't get flamed myself, but I really don't understand some of the nostalgia, it's kind of like a quantum physicist saying "Sadly, using a slide rule is a diing art"The Ghost of FM said:Sadly, at this point it's a dieing art.
What the "sadly" part was more in reference to was the artistic genius of the artists like Frank Zappa, who made use of tape splicing in such a way as to make it an art unto itself.noisewreck said:Why sadly? Personally, I'm glad I don't have to waste my time splicing tape. I don't mean this as a flame, and hope I don't get flamed myself, but I really don't understand some of the nostalgia, it's kind of like a quantum physicist saying "Sadly, using a slide rule is a diing art"
(in Einstein voice) "Ven I came up wiz my seory of General Relativity, vi had no komputers! ..."
Precisely!The Ghost of FM said:But, sometimes making a task easier to do also takes away the magic and soul of it's results and cheapens the appreciation value because it can be done by anyone with or without a brain.
Cheers!
The Ghost of FM said:But, sometimes making a task easier to do also takes away the magic and soul of it's results and cheapens the appreciation value because it can be done by anyone with or without a brain.
Dr ZEE said:Precisely!
I'd say, with today's advanced editing tools the process of "creative production" is rather try and pick than imagine and think - no excitement, no inspiration, no really reason for ...