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. This may not apply to Portastudio decks, since they're designed to allow punching in and out. I haven't tried this myself, though. It's possible to defeat the erase head. This might eliminate the dropout but will replace it with a "drop-in" as new material is recorded over the old without erasure. I might be an interesting effect, though (if you're into an analog glitch aesthetic). -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz