Into the mix

Feb 02, 2009 13:10

This is a subject I've wanted to have a blog post about for quite a while now, but never got around to writing, and that's on the subject of music ( Read more... )

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vakkotaur February 2 2009, 21:06:07 UTC
When it was tape, the source tape determined some of the order, at least if there was more than one tune to be dubbed from the source tape. Many tapes I built up not a specific mixes, but as things dubbed off of the Dr. Demento Show and considered good enough to keep (Fast Forward was often a good friend indeed - much was crap, but there were some gems.). These would then get assembled into drive-time tapes (yeah, third generation, but consider the listening space of a car - high fidelity doesn't matter that much when there's wind, road, and engine noise). I never really worked out great timing to merge things well enough to avoid an odd dead space at the end of each side of the tape -- but that dead space was preferable to having a tune cut off only to restart, from the beginning, on the opposite side ( ... )

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