Hi everyone. Even though I do some video editing, and that is my ID on a different forum, it was not really a great identity for this music forum. So we're all about Audio from now on

I could add: "the name has been changed to protect the innocent"

Welcome to the forum AudioTrack, good to hear you in full stereo sound.

Who is this guy and what did he do to VideoTrack? This will take some time for me.

Hey AudioTrack, I can still see you

Sorry, that name is taken.

Too late
What has been seen cannot be unseen.

And it only took you 10 years to decide that!!

Similarly, and more appropriate for "AudioTrack", what has been heard cannot be unheard!

Can't help but feel I bear some of the responsibility for this...

I just can't see the name change.

Ha Ha. It had been on my mind for a long time. JJJ, in all honesty you actually helped

One shouldn't rush in to these things Eddie

No worries mate, you will still be in the Top Posters.

You need to be ready for a deluge of new "audio" questions, especially as I see you are advertising the fact that you have Audiophile 2022.

Billy

I hear you.

the people you owe money to will still find you - take it from me

Welcome to the forum AT... I'm going to change my "name" just as soon as it becomes less appropriate.

Long may you .wav, Trev!

Ha Ha. I'll .wav both ways

talking of video editing simply reminds me how old i am. in my early days well before video tape was prevalent and the world went digital, i edited 35mm film for cinema commercials on a moviola. we actually cut the film and spliced with clear adhesive tape prior to neg cutting.

and yes we spliced audio tape using razor blades. with BIAB and RB i can now do things in seconds that the Beatles and Brian Wilson could only achieve by hours of work. shame i don't have the same talent.

One of first real jobs was working in a library. After way too many years, I decided to visit this last fall. Got a warm welcome and a tour.

They have a small collection of tools that was used in the library throughout the years.

I picked up a film splicer and said "I haven't seen a film splicer in years."

The response: "We all wondered what that was."

I then explained how to use it.

...Deb

Fantastic stories from both Bob and yourself. I'm sure that some people don't know how good they've got it nowadays.

I think that every time someone complains about a software program taking a minute or two to load. I remember waiting 20 minutes for a program to load from tape! Sometimes it would fail at the 19 minute mark so it was rewind and start again. Those were not the good old days!

I remember downloading files from BBS systems over 300 baud dial up. In one instance I dialed up to "Al's Nest" to download a hockey game. It was 4 files that were in an early version of today's ZIP files. That system had a 1 hour user limit. Each of those files took 72 minutes to download. So they had a download that nobody could download. I called Al about it and explained and the deal was made that he would set up his system that at 11pm I could start the download and for that one session have unlimited time to get all 4 files.

0.3 kbps!!

My current ISP is 230 mbps.

Why has everything improved over the last 35 years except ME?

Remember old synths that stored patches on cassette tapes?

Don't forget to mention that it tied up your phone line!

Even then I had no friends and nobody called me anyway, so...

Some things never change

// Eddie and I kid each other .. and poke and prod, so please don't think I am being a jerk just because I am
///Except Eddie, he already knows I'm a jerk

That would have been impractical on the seven-house party-line phone line I had growing up.

I remember those days!
I also remember only having to dial the last 5 digits of the phone number you were calling (as long as it was local)
45081 = Mom & Dads music store back in the day
Funny, I don't remember the home number from back then, probably because I never called it

Well if Eddie thinks that you are a jerk then I don't want to know what he thinks of me!