15 Dec
2007
15 Dec
'07
1:35 a.m.
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 01:02 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
Wel, the tape loop was rather long. An access time of
up to 30 minutes
would seem to be somewhat impractcal. But I don't see why you couldn't
shorten the tape look to something more useable.
You can actually buy carts similar to 8-track carts for broadcast use -
that's what idents and jingles used to be recorded onto before doing it
digitally became feasable.
Broadcast carts typically have three or four simultaneous tracks (for
left, right and a sync track with start, stop and cue tones), and come
in anything from 5 seconds to a few minutes.
To nudge this a little back towards the topic, the original poster could
probably pick up a couple of cart decks fairly cheaply, along with some
carts. Two bits plus timing would work fairly well.
Gordon