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Re: basic loops

Remembering back 20 years or so, I remember that one of the problems with
tape splicing was the static charge on the blade used or something, such
that a pop would occur at the splice-point.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg House" <ghunicycle@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 15:23 PM
Subject: Re: basic loops


> At 4:33 AM -0400 5/9/02, SoundFNR@aol.com wrote:
>
> >Home made short cassette loops do actually work, but if you try to
> >record on to them there's always a dropout due to the distance
> >between the record and erase heads.
>
> I wonder if you could make a spacer to push the tape away from the
> erase head so that it's effect was diminished (not eliminated
> completely) to make a loop that gradually fades over time?
>
> Greg
>
>
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