---- Mary E Tyler <dejahvu@...> wrote:
> >> I beg to differ. Cutting music on a tape deck took one good ear, two
> >> fingers and three keys: play, rewind and record. It took time as
> >> well.
> >
> > That's what I meant by "patience." Oh, and even with those, get the
> > wrong equipment and you had an ugly "CHUNK" sound in every edit
> > regardless.
>
> The chunk sound is more bad technique than bad equipment. I cut music
> from vinyl to cassette on my father's hi fi. It wasn't that fancy a
> set. I think later I used my boom box. Neither were any great quality.

Interesting.

> >> The result was better, yes, but it took
> >> significantly more skill and a lot more equipment. It's not cut and
> >> paste and there is a significant time investment no matter what tool
> >> you use.
> >
> > It's going to take time no matter what. How did it take more skill?
> > I'm curious to know.
>
> Well, using a tape deck is pretty easy. Just using a computer takes
> skills--though we don't often think about it. Plus there are far more
> options with sound software as far as filters and processing that
> aren't even available when you're merely cutting one piece of music to
> another on a tape deck. This is one area where I have to admit to
> knowing there are things which I don't know but not knowing exactly
> what those things are.

You sound like Rumsfeld now (not getting political, just funny, I hope)...I
would think the options would make it easier to make the edits sound good, even
if they're harder to learn.

> >> Not "easier," significantly more complex but possible to yield vastly
> >> better results.
> >
> > Actually, that would be my own definition of "easier." Better
> > technology and better results. I'm probably simplifying to say that,
> > but that's what I mean.
>
> You can also get shoddy results.

And a good craftsman never blames the tools, right? :-)

> dej, who really ought to get her show on the road...

Maybe you would do a good job doing this professionally...once you learned about
your known unknowns. :-) In any case, it helps a skater if someone does, that's
for sure--but I don't think a lot of people in the past knew what they were
doing with the equipment available. As for the music...well, as we said, that
ranged from excellent to really, really bad and for a while, really, really bad
electronic music was really "in." I guess we can blame Norbert Schramm for a lot
of that.

Trudi