Re: Labor Saving Devices (was FCC)

["Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net>]

Sven Weil wrote
>How are cart machines labor saving devices?  
>It's like saying record players are labor 
>saving devices...why not just put the spots 
>on 7 inch 45s instead?  

Compared to the old practice of putting each spot 
on a 5" wide-hub reel and having 3 Magnecorders
just for spot playback with the accompanying 
threading, cueing and rewinding, it's a labor-saving 
device.

They used to put spots on acetates.  They quickly
wore out and became noisy.  Had to be re-recorded


>same thing for compression/limiting...
Sure beats paying for an engineer to be on-duty at 
all times just to ride gain.

Roger Kirk
rogerkirk@ttlc.net