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Editing Audiotape
Figure  13-13.Audiotape  editing  block.

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Figure  13-11.—Reel-to-reel  tape  recorder  head  sequence. Figure 13-12.—Marking the edit in point on the playback head. 3. Locate the segment of material you want to edit. To do this, you will be concerned with one of three tape heads  on  the  machine.  With  few  exceptions,  the  tape head sequence (from left to right) is erase, record and playback  (fig.  13-11).  If  there  is  material  that  needs editing   or   if   the   tape   does   not   meet   the   timing requirements,  listen  to  the  audio  and  find  the  point where  you  want  to  start  your  edit.  Slowly  wind  and rewind the tape manually to find the exact  edit in point. Make a vertical mark on the audiotape at the edit in point in the center of the playback head (fig. 13-12). You can do this easily by using a china marker (grease pencil). Make sure you limit your mark to the surface of the tape — stray marks on the tape head could damage it. 4. Find and mark the edit out point using the same procedure as for locating and marking the edit in point. When you mark the edit in and out points, always allow  for  natural  pauses  (breathing).  If  only  the  bad audio  is  edited  out,  there  will  be  an  abnormally  long pause left on the tape at the point of the splice. Cut and Splice Once you have located and marked the edit points, you can cut out the desired edited material. To do this, you need a sharp razor blade, an edit block and a roll of audio  splicing  tape. If the editing block is not permanently mounted on the  base  of  the  recorder,  set  up  the  block  so  that  the 13-30







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