[78-L] First LP

[David Breneman]

On Fri, 6/25/10, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
> 
> > I wonder how they got around this when
> > transferring parts of a continuous work? Mark a start point
> > at the edge and count the number of revolutions and hope you
> > got it right?
> >
> And yet the AFRS did some amazing editing disc to disc.
> Like removing a single word or small group of words from
> an announcer's sentence without dropping out. Not as good
> as tape naturally, and not un-noticeable, but really good,
> given the limitations.

I've seen some pictures of dubbing setups with as many as
four turntables, some of which could be locked together;
multiple tone arms on each turntable, some of which could
access turntables on either side of them; revolution
counters; micrometers and all sorts of other paraphernalia.
I think a lot of this got its start in the Vitaphone days.
It must have been quite an art to put together a program
that way.  No wonder CBS jumped at the opportunity to use
wire recording on "Hear it Now."