Steve_Graham@ub.cc.umich.edu (03/05/90)
I did my first digital overdub today, using our two Sony 601 processors and Beta VCRs. I'm helping this guy do a sound-track for a film. It's all going to end up on a mono sound-track (unless it hits the cutting room floor!) He wanted to record his voice and guitar today, separately. There were two other people who are supposed to play too, but they are in California and will have to be added later. So I figured I could record two digital tracks today, then later on I can clone the digits while adding two more tracks on Beta Hifi at the same time. That way everything would be first generation (if you accept the premise that digital clones are perfect). I decided to do digital because overdubbing with analog...the flutter kills me, and the noise builds up, and on and on and on dum dee doo dah and we don't have a multitrack (to speak of).... His wanting to do voice and guitar separately threw a monkeywrench in, but I figured I could get away with going down a digital generation, so I just recorded the guitar, then copied that track to a second tape (d/a-a/d) while adding the vocal, but keeping the two on separate tracks. So everything will be discreet and first generation on the final digital/Beta Hifi "four-track" except for the guitar. If nothing else I figured it'd give me a chance to hear what happens when you go down a couple of digital generations on the guitar.