Thursday, December 22, 2011

mixing sound on the living room floor


The reel-to-reel tape recorder is checked out from the Audio-Visual department in the basement of Link Library. Mr. Middendorf showed me how to work it. You can see a sample model in action HERE.


You watch the tape counter which rolls over numbers as the tape feeds through. You decide when the music starts and when it stops. Start at say 005 and stop at 031. There are cords that bring music into the recorder and cords that bring music out. Speaker cords bring music out. Head phone cords bring music out. You can listen to your music and soundtrack with the head phones and no one else in the house has to listen to your starting and stopping commotion. I did the mixing on the living room floor, where I could spread out. The family phonograph was set up there, and the tape recorder. This was before CD players and cassette players. There was no digital anything. But I checked out every piece of equipment from the AV department at Concordia.

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