I still own a splice block and a reel to reel machine. Have not used etiher in years, BUT, I still could. In a way I miss bits and pieces of recording tap all over as I was trying for the PERFECT edit!
I started in radio in 1964, and the first station I worked for was in transition from (3") reel to reel to carts at that time for produced commercials. We still used a lot of EP's for agency spots. Even later, 1967, I worked with a Gates Spot Tape machine, bet most people never saw one of those. Look it up. Also an early automation, well sort of, a Gates branded machine that held 100, 45 rpm records. Programmable with switches, a or b side, both, or skip and remote controlled from the control room, (was noisey). I think the unit was made by Seeburg and was baiscly a juke box, without the coin slot. I wonder why the stations never thought of putting one in?
Oh here's one more, our remote sports mixer was a Gates twinsister?
So given the ABOVE so given all that I guess I qualify to be an old fart!
I started in radio in 1964, and the first station I worked for was in transition from (3") reel to reel to carts at that time for produced commercials. We still used a lot of EP's for agency spots. Even later, 1967, I worked with a Gates Spot Tape machine, bet most people never saw one of those. Look it up. Also an early automation, well sort of, a Gates branded machine that held 100, 45 rpm records. Programmable with switches, a or b side, both, or skip and remote controlled from the control room, (was noisey). I think the unit was made by Seeburg and was baiscly a juke box, without the coin slot. I wonder why the stations never thought of putting one in?
Oh here's one more, our remote sports mixer was a Gates twinsister?
So given the ABOVE so given all that I guess I qualify to be an old fart!