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RE: BROKEN TAPES

Subject: RE: BROKEN TAPES
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:08:16 -0500
>>At 7:44 AM -0700 10/5/05, Don Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>>       John Moore:
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any ideas on how Paul can fix his cassette tape?
>>
>>
>>Marty Michener:
>>
>>Prof. P. P. Kellogg strongly advised me in 1957 to buy an "EdiTall" block=
,
>>designed for 1/4 inch studio tape.
>
>
>Your description brings back many pleasant (and some not so pleasant)
>memories, Marty. I believe the EDITall is still manufactured, and they hav=
e
>versions for all tapes from audio and DAT cassette up to 2 inch video.
>
>-- Don
>           http://atozaudio.com/html/spliceleader.html


Or, how about a single edge razor blade and smooth cardboard so one
can manually determine the angle of the cut and create different
cross-fade lengths?  Really helpful at times voice editing and making
single track transitions. Full track recordings are much more
forgiving about alignment-- but its pretty easy to line-up the pieces
using a long straight guide line on the cardboard. Cassette tape
speed is so slow and the tape so curl-prone, but its still possible
every now and then to get an inaudible splice. Rob D.




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