Peer Review

This video provides information on how to manually cut and splice magnetic audio tape. This tutorial specifically addresses cross-fading with the 45-degree manual cutting and splicing of the tape, as well as mentioning the need to take care not to mark up the equipment while marking the places for the splice on the tape itself. This tutorial would be appropriate for adult professionals in the workplace and/or students in institutions of learning who have experience with digital audio editing and need a walk-through of editing physical audio tape.

Demonstration and tutorial.

• Best completed individually as hands-on activity
• Homework
• Potential in-class presentation

It is a public Youtube video with no special requirements.

• Identify the necessary tools and equipment for cutting and splicing audio tape
• Identify the best places within the recording to make cuts/splices on the audio tape
• Analyze the tape recording using appropriate equipment technique (“rocking the reels”) to make correct cuts
• Correctly utilize the equipment to make clean cuts and splices to audio tape

• Professional
• College Lower Division (Sound/Audio engineering, Music Technology, Instructional Technology)
• College Upper Division Again (Sound/Audio engineering, Music Technology,
• Instructional Technology, Librarianship/Archiving)
• Potential use in High School (Sound/Audio engineering, Music Technology)

None.