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Iain Churches wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Yes, I am familiar with this technique. It was known as dissolving.

Thanks. Previously, I'd taken for granted that in the era of tape
people would always use tape splicing. But maybe some people found
'dissolving' easier. When listening at first it sounded like odd
dropouts due to something like dirt on the tape. But when I looked at
the waveforms the thought came to me that it was a deliberate erasure.

In broadcast is was known as spot erasing. Some pro machines had this
facility - although more commonly used on one track of a multitrack.
With caution. ;-)


Spot erasing was a totally different thing, and used to
remove wrong notes or wrong beats (snare, BD, hi-hat, etc)
from one specific track on a multitrack machine. It left a
"hole" in the audio, which, in listening, was covered by
materal from other tracks. Spot erasure on a mono
or stereo tape, was, for obvious reasons, not an option.

Dissolving, a totally different technique, produced a cross fade
and was used exclusively on mono or stereo quarter in tapes, which
is what we are talking about here.

You mean effectively electronic editing? Please explain how this could be
use to remove clicks from an LP after transferring to tape?

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