Comments on: TRI-X Remembered http://leggnet.com/2007/03/tri-x-remembered.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bryan D. Catherman http://leggnet.com/2007/03/tri-x-remembered.html/comment-page-1#comment-806 Bryan D. Catherman Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:46:00 +0000 http://leggnet.com/wp/2007/03/tri-x-remembered.html#comment-806 Right after high school, I worked for a radio station. In those days we literally cut the tape with a razor blade and taped it where we wanted it with special tape. It was called "splicing" audio. Sometimes when the tape ran through the reel-to-real machine, the splice would break. Talk about a mess. There were other times when the cut was in a bad place so it sounded funny or the two ends of the tape weren't perfectly butted up to one another so a click could be heard. <br/><br/>Now I find it funny when I play with video on my Mac. The terms and concepts still apply, but there is no cutting. (And when you screw up, you can undo. There's no undo when you use a razor blade.) I don't think the younger people in the T.V. station were I work understand that terms like cutting a clip or splicing the audio come from the days where cutting and splicing were just that. <br/><br/>When I saw your film photo, cutting reel-to-reel tape was the first thing that ran through my head. <br/><br/>Aw, the good ol' days. (And I'm not even as old as you, Rich.) Right after high school, I worked for a radio station. In those days we literally cut the tape with a razor blade and taped it where we wanted it with special tape. It was called “splicing” audio. Sometimes when the tape ran through the reel-to-real machine, the splice would break. Talk about a mess. There were other times when the cut was in a bad place so it sounded funny or the two ends of the tape weren’t perfectly butted up to one another so a click could be heard.

Now I find it funny when I play with video on my Mac. The terms and concepts still apply, but there is no cutting. (And when you screw up, you can undo. There’s no undo when you use a razor blade.) I don’t think the younger people in the T.V. station were I work understand that terms like cutting a clip or splicing the audio come from the days where cutting and splicing were just that.

When I saw your film photo, cutting reel-to-reel tape was the first thing that ran through my head.

Aw, the good ol’ days. (And I’m not even as old as you, Rich.)

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