Show of hands: who has actually cut a record on analog tape? No, 2″ tape. Your old Tascam 4-track doesn’t count. Okay, so that’s a couple of you. Now, how many of you actually know how to work one of the damn machines yourself? Yeah, didn’t think so. Seriously, how could you forget what “Sel-Rep” mode does?
In case you’re curious as to the staggering breadth of your pointed ignorance, Playbuzz has this 10 question analog tape quiz to hone your humility. Do me a favor and post your score in the comments. I manged to guess my way to 5 out of 10 but I was only sure about 2 or 3 my answers. Because really, “reference fluxivity” can’t be a real thing, right?
Ata Brat / September 8, 2014 2:29 pm
6/10
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Chris Alfano / September 8, 2014 10:52 pm
We have a winner, folks.
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funeraldoombuggy / September 8, 2014 2:38 pm
I got 3/10 right. one of those was a lucky guess. I’ve never recorded to 2 inch (maybe someday). I did record a totally kick ass sounding demo in 1999 on an Akai (I think) 12 track… remember those?
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Brendan Campbell / September 8, 2014 5:16 pm
A solid 1/10 for me!
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I Shot J.R / September 8, 2014 7:04 pm
4/10. That quiz sure is a cheeky cunt.
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JPK / September 9, 2014 1:18 am
6/10 and I haven’t even touched/seen live a studio grade tape recorder but a bit familiar with recording terminology.
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IAmSamSlamIAm / September 9, 2014 9:28 am
9. Sweet. I guess reading all those books about recording back in the 70s paid off.
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Chris Alfano / September 9, 2014 6:01 pm
We have a new champion. Ata Brat, I’ll send you a prepaid UPS box so you can mail your championship belt back.
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Lord Gronbuske / September 9, 2014 9:35 am
8/10 and I had no idea, just a good guesser or something… barely looked at the questions, I really have no idea about anything of that. Didn’t even use cassettes very much.
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Stabberofbutts / September 9, 2014 4:07 pm
2/10…I didn’t understand half of the words in some of the questions…
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mleebs / September 11, 2014 1:33 pm
I got 6 out of 10 correct. If I had gone with my first choice for two of the questions, I would of had 8 of 10. Two of my correct answers were guesses. I was lucky enough to watch one of the engineers calibrate a tape machine that he bought at the studio I was interning for. I also had to use a tape machine to record a song as a project for a recording class as well.
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