Date: 27 Jul 96 08:25:05 +0500
From: Christopher Piper <puppetco-AT-cais.cais.com>
Subject: Re: AxTrax tapes


>As many of you know I have put together performance tapes for non-vents who
>want to use a puppet like a vent with the puppet's voice on the tape.  They
>are nicely done and quite a success for us...now here's the next step....

>Vents are requesting the Intro music and the music beds etc. without the
>voices so a vent can do the routine (and modify it) but have access to the
>professional music as they need it.  I myself want to do this in my shows
>because the routines and the music are very well done.  Anyway, here's a
>question for anyone who has a thought on it.

>How much space (10ths of seconds or seconds) should be in between the music
>beds, in order to allow either a sound man or yourself to start and stop the
>tape player?  2 - 3 seconds??

We use recorded music and sfx with live voices for our shows, with 3
seconds between cues.  This usually gave us enough time to get to the
foot pedal to stop the cue before the next cue came up.  It was very
difficult when the music faded down to tell when the cue was over, and
lead to some embarrassing mishaps.  We now have a Tascam 133 3-track
cassette recorder that not only controls the slide projectors for our
rear-projected scenery, but has a stop pulse that stops the tape in
exactly the same places every time.  You have no idea how much easier
this makes our job, not to mention the improvement in show quality due
to the absence of miscues.

Not much help to your question, but I saw the opportunity to mention
this, and I took it. :)
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