Audio editing software with scrubbing?

[Oldradiohand]

Chinagraph pencils and two inch quad video tape...now, those were the days!

 

2" tape and magnetic ink - so you could cut between the pictures!

[dbuckley]

2" tape and magnetic ink - so you could cut between the pictures!

 

I've never had to splice video tape, so although I knew of the existance of this technique, I never had to actually try it. But I still have the chinagraph and the tape and the splicers (including one for eigth inch casette tape!) and the degausser in a box somewhere. Just in case I need to splice a tape some day. How likely is that...

 

It is astounding how easy it is to do things these days with digital "stuff" than it was "back in the day". Example: the very common trick of altering the relative timing of the vocal tracks required doing a bounce to another machine and then bouncing back with the other machine either ahead of behind the main multitrack. As well as good engineering, that took a good bit of hit and miss timing, and so it could take hours to get it right. Now we can just slip tracks with a couple of mouseclicks.

 

Another thing I used to do was to run spot effects off cassette. And I wanted instant start with no shuttling required. So, purchase cassette tapes with screwed together bodies, and then open her up, and remove the leader so the magnetic material went straight onto the take up roller. Somewhere I still have a few boxes of spot effects from way back... Thank heck for digital audio.

[Bobbsy]

Ah, the dreaded EdiVu solution and microscope. I've only ever had to do the most basic editing that way but yup, I HAVE had to do it. (As an aside, I believe season one of Laugh In was done totally that way because electronic editing couldn't cope with the rapid editing.

 

As long as we're on a trip down old git memory lane, I bet my first 2 inch VTR was more exotic than yours: the first TV station I worked at (CKRD Red Deer, Canada) had invested in a hybrid beast known as an Ampex VR1000HB. It was the case and transport of the original VR1000 with the high band electronics from a 1200 wedged in. The thing was, they didn't take out a lot of the now-unnecessary valve stuff so you had to learn which bits did something and which didn't!