Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is.

BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I do sound professionally and I originally learned to track on 2" magnetic tape. Our one digital console had something like 24 channels (which was cutting edge at the time) and every channel required a $40k card slotted into this proprietary rack costing god know how much. Now, any cheap laptop can be an audio rig that has basically unlimited channels and enough DSP to basically do anything they want. Nothing like slicing tape with a razor hoping your edit was right.

  source

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah Razor tool now makes sense in KDEnlive editor

    source

    • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Exactly. It’s an art in itself. A cross fade was laying the diagonal cuts of two strips onto each other at the seam. Your fade time what the angle of the cut. DAWs visualize that but it used to be an actual cut. Wild times back then. Digital completely took over right after I left college and it’s a shame because there’s something special in there that makes every edit mean something. With no Ctrl-Z, every cut is a commitment.

      If you look up pics of old iconic rock master reels, some of those things look like a Frankenstein monster. But once they put it on wax for sale, you’d never know the reels looked like hot garbage.

      source

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah cool. I had a similar conversation about when art supplies were very costly, even a single she of watercolour paper or a tube of paint, so the artist had to conjure up something worthy and commit to it, rather than digital art where you can churn out a lot of mediocrity because it costs you nothing

        source