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what would you recommend for wide-track decks (1" 2-track)?

Posted by High-end Dreamer (A) on July 10, 2003 at 14:21:40

In Reply to: Re: Why are [analog] tape edits cut at 45 deg or 60 deg, not 90 deg? posted by Top Jimmy on July 10, 2003 at 14:01:33:

The same place I read about the "instantaneous anamoly" also talked about how with wider tape, the time between the leading edge of the edit and the trailing edge is necessarily longer. When editing a wide-track tape like the newer 1" 2-track stuff (only from audiophile labels), this would be even more problematic, I would guess.

OR at 30 ips, do you think the tape is going by too fast for the edit to be noticed?

I guess that an edit on 30ips 1" tape would have the same 'sound' as an edit on 15ips 1/2" tape, so perhaps I'm making a mountain out of a molehill.

I wonder if anyone has ever edited a 2" tape...? Now that would be interesting. I guess that if running at 30ips, you might still not be able to hear those edits if they're done well....? (Yes, I know that editing a 2" tape is crazy.) A 45° splice would pass in less than 0.05 seconds on a 2" tape running at 30ips.

Mike

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