Date:         Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:40:56 -0400
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Subject:      Re: LP pressing question
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Actually, what I love is that if a mix went a little long, say over 2:30 
in the 60's that the producer would just say it was 2:31 and it would 
end up that way on the label and they'd leave it at that.That way you 
gave a Program Director no ammunition to keep your recorded from being 
added to rotation! A classic case of "fake it till you make it". I don't 
know why but the audacity of doing a 3:00 mix and printing 2:31 on the 
record just tickles me pink...

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Michael Shoshani wrote:
> Tom Fine wrote:
>> When the QC listening was done, it was done with a stop-watch so that 
>> times could be known for problem, which were noted. 
>
> That's interesting - I read somewhere that records did not carry time 
> information until after tape was introduced, which led me to conclude 
> that the time was calculated by measuring the tape footage and 
> dividing it by the speed, rather than having some poor schlub sit 
> there all day with a stopwatch.
>
> Michael Shoshani
> Chicago
>