[sdiy] Build a Tape Flanger?

[TooManySynths]

I do not know for sure, because I have no idea how to
flange with tape decks. I expect, however, that it is
a skill much akin to beatmatching, something I can do
fairly well.  After a lot of practice, the corrections
become almost subconscious, what the experienced DJ
hears in terms of obvious beat offset is typically
unheard by an untrained ear.  When I'm hanging out
with non-DJs they frequently can't hear mistakes which
are completely obvious and annoying to me. When a
newbie tries to beatmatch, it seems impossible, after
weeks it seems possible, but they still suck, after
months, they are starting to get it.

Just my .02
Daryl




--- Glen <mclilith at ezwv.com> wrote:
> At 02:15 AM 8/30/01 , Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> >I've always wondered:  Once one reel down is
> momentarily slowed,
> >how did they 'resynch' the decks so that the
> difference is
> >eliminated again?  Drag a finger on the other one? 
> Sounds 
> >difficult.  Pardon my naivete...
> 
> If I understand it correctly, they would first slow
> one deck, and then slow
> the other one. This process was repeated over and
> over, for as long as they
> needed the flanging effect. If they needed to
> perfectly synch the sound, or
> eliminate the flanging effect, it would always be
> simple to fade down the
> volume of one of the decks, leaving only one of them
> audible.
> 
> Yes, this does sound difficult, but I believe this
> was how it was done
> before purpose-built "flangers" were invented.
> 
> 
> Later,
> Glen


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