Mixing Back in the Day

[Bang Diddley]

Been lurking for a while, so I thought its about time to unlurk. Picked this up from Little Detroit for you. Mixing old school ways http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/articles/on_the_tube.html by Greg Wilson.
See also on the same website how he used to put edits together here http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/credit_to_the_edit/sleevenotes.html. Thats a labour of love.

 

[dHarry]

cool, thanks for that.

I would literally take a ruler and measure a beat, before cutting it up into smaller and smaller fractions. I’d have bits of tape everywhere, bars and beats and bits of beats all marked on the back with a chinagraph pencil so I knew what they were. Having nobody else to refer to, I’d evolved my own madcap system, which made perfect sense to me, but must have seemed completely chaotic to anyone else!

- wow!

 

[Martin Dust]

cool, thanks for that.
- wow!

Everyone did it like that, I remember being in the recording studio when the engineer dumped all our tape on the floor before doing an edit I nearly had kittens.