[78-L] Jack Benny ETs

[Chris Zwarg]

At 06:08 12.12.2008, you wrote:
>joe at salerno.com wrote:
>> Sammy,
>>
>> I don't know the answer to the question, but I am wondering if a 
>> recording made with intent to use for a time shift would have been 
>> overlapped - which would make it more difficult to que on the re-bcast.
>>
>> joe salerno
>>
>>
>>   
> 
>To the contrary.  The way I do an overlap is to find a word to start it 
>in cue when I hear it on the one on the air, and then I speed up 
>momentarily stop the second disc until they are in sync, and when I hear 
>the second one sounding better than the first one I crossface to the 
>second disc. 

German Radio (possibly the BBC as well?) simplified this process by cutting a wide groovespace (like an LP banding between songs) in the same spot on both discs near the start of the usually 30-50 second overlap. This way, the operator could cue up the second disc to the visible blank space at the start, then wait for the stylus on the first one reach the corresponding spot and start the second turntable at that moment to be quasi-automatically in (more-or-less) sync. This was in the late 1920's and the media used were 12-inch 78rpm shellac pressings so you needed to change discs every 4 minutes. 

Chris Zwarg