{"product_id":"recording-techniques-remembering-analog-tape","title":"RECORDING Techniques – Remembering Analog Tape","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Splicing Block\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIn 1974, I was 16 or 17 years old and had started hanging around the one studio in my hometown. I was fortunate enough to be hired to play bass on sessions there, and because I was fascinated by everything about the recording process, I’d hang around the studio even when I wasn’t booked. The first time I saw the engineer cut up a master tape to remove four measures from the intro and 16 measures from the piano solo, I was pretty horrified. After all, cutting tape is the sort of action that can’t be undone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe basic process isn’t particularly difficult, and with practice, the results can be excellent. But once you cut the tape, you can’t uncut it. Tape editing wasn’t limited to 2-track masters, either. Sometimes an edit needed to happen before a track was mixed or even before the overdubs were finished. That meant editing the multitrack tape. And although taking a razor blade to 2\" tape isn’t really any harder than cutting \u003csup\u003e1\u003c\/sup\u003e\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003csub\u003e4\u003c\/sub\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\" stereo tape, it certainly feels scarier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recording Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45848223613037,"sku":null,"price":1.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2392\/2951\/files\/RECORDING-Techniques---Rembering-Analog-Tape.jpg?v=1789430518","url":"https:\/\/recording-magazine.myshopify.com\/products\/recording-techniques-remembering-analog-tape","provider":"Recording Magazine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}