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MiNE 109 wrote:
"For those who don¹t know much about studio recording, the process of
adding instruments to an existing track is called overdubbing."

Did you have to search long to find an explanation that agreed with your
own faulty one? Overdubbing *does not* involve adding things to an
existing track, but replacing them. In essence, all it means is adding
material to the performance at a later stage - often by replacing
something which was recorded at the original session as a guide.

Perhaps you don't understand multi-track tape recording - as much else. If
you try and add something to an already recorded track by switching off
the erase, the bias current will partially erase the existing - mainly the
higher frequency content. I've never known this used in any pro recording
- indeed none of the multi-tracks I've worked with offered this facility.

If you were running short of tracks, you'd bounce several down to one to
free some up.

It is in this sense, "adding instruments to an existing track" that I
used the word.

Then that's an even bigger nonsense than most of your theories since it
badly degrades the material which already exists on the track.

(That movie might be "Grace of My Heart")

You must be a movie makers dream - believing everything you see or hear.
Were you one of the people that went into a panic when 'War of the Worlds'
was first broadcast on radio?

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*Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? *

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn