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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Sept 25, 2023 16:33:14 GMT -5
Not just an album by the Moody Blues but a fairly accurate prediction of what technology has been in store at the time and what's available now. For example when I was your age, Nugget, we used to listen to something called "radio". My fancy recording device was something called a cassette recorder that used potato sized batteries and if we wanted to hear the next sing, all we had to do was push a button and try to time the place on the tape where one stopped and the other started. It was basically an imperfect fader but I digress.
Now I just pay a guy.
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Post by minx on Sept 26, 2023 9:29:19 GMT -5
And you had to sit and pray to all the gods in existence that the DJ (they actually had ones that weren't in clubs my child) didn't step on the intro to the song, so you could record it all. And you only got it if you hit play and record at the same time.
No shufflin allowed.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Sept 26, 2023 10:28:12 GMT -5
Yeah the ol' "station tag" they did (probably still do) at the beginning or end of songs.
Some people have never used a pencil to wind the tape back up in the cassette and it shows.
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Post by minx on Sept 26, 2023 14:41:03 GMT -5
Let's talk splicing - with tape and an exacto knife! I actually was one of the weirdos who liked splicing - so many of my classmates hated it because if you didn't get the cut exactly right, you had to re-record and try again. My favorite project was making a promo for the college radio station (we were a NPR affiliate and had to fundraise each year). I took the Kinks' Low Budget and spliced so you heard them sing Low Budget about 4 times, then did a voice over with the instrumental underneath "Yes, we are on a low budget at WXXX, and we need your help..." Instructor laughed like hell, but also said that hell would freeze before we played it on air too. Still got an A  |
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