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MiNE 109 wrote:
Or are you still under the impression that you can overdub material to
a master tape?

You can mix a master tape and new material onto another tape or other
fixing device. Let me guess, you'd say it wouldn't be a master, but to
say that would be begging the question.

No, I'd say that's not overdubbing. Overdubbing takes place on the same
tape, or on two or more machines locked in sync.

One could overdub (replace an existing recording with an new one) a
master tape if one wanted to if one were unhappy with a mix or something.

Again, that's not ovedubbing, but over-recording. Overdubbing involves
listening to the sync output of the tape while recording the new -
something you can't do with a stereo machine.

I hope you've read carefully all those sites you have visited. And
have learnt that you can't overdub to a track without replacing what
was there before.

In the sense that a new track that was formerly *noise* and would
otherwise be muted so as not to contribute to the mix is replaced by
wanted signal, you are correct, a distinction without a difference.

At least you appear to have learned something at last.

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