One for the nerds!

Ha! We had to use one of those for some BBC archive stuff out a couple of years back, didn’t have a clue how it worked!

Ah!! Revox PR99 (ASC version) nerd knowledge coming in handy there!!

Full Nerd…90 degree edits only

Oh yes! Straight cut! 💥

Get me a Chinagraph and a blade- I’ll show ‘em!

Haha!! It’s a skill we never forget!!

I put many a long shift in editing packages on a Studer A807 just like that ... and in my first radio job in 1992-94, when I turned a package around daily for an all-speech lunchtime show, I had the razor wounds to show for it! 😏

Happy memories! I was just talking to someone about the ‘joy’ of cutting tape and using the yellow pencil!

@kev_tape The Studer C37 tape machine had electrically operated scissors for editing. Find your spot as usual, move the tape on a set amount (no chinagraph required) and press the button. Story goes one went rogue during transmission and chopped up the tape! Scissors were then disabled!

I spent hours, editing on reel to reel machines in those days and regularly spliced more then tape! Bulk erasing could be fun too, especially if I forgot to take off my watch…. 😔