MC5 truncates recording

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2010/07/24 10:04:54 (permalink)

MC5 truncates recording

I am recording some old reel to reel tapes into MC5. It looks like it is working fine: I see the sound waves on the track until the end. When I stop the recording, I find I have only the first few minutes recorded. This worked fine for the first tape, only on the second tape has this started.
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    Re:MC5 truncates recording 2010/07/24 10:22:49 (permalink)
    Do you have the punch in recording enabled by accident?  From what I understand. MC should record quite a long while. What you might want to try is to record one song from the reel to reel at a time.

    you can put them into separate projects OR, use the multi tracking capability and record song #1 on track one...... song # 2 on the R2R on track 2 after muting track 1..... and so on.

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    Re:MC5 truncates recording 2010/07/24 10:29:48 (permalink)
    I don't think I am using the punch in, unless by accident. How would I check this? I am defragging my drive now and removing all power saving options.

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    Re:MC5 truncates recording 2010/07/24 17:43:25 (permalink)
    record options but at teh top of the screen on the mid right are the punch icons.... they are bright red if on.....

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    Re:MC5 truncates recording 2010/07/25 20:54:59 (permalink)
    Thanks Git-Hacker - I cleaned up the harddrive and defragged.....then decided it makes sense to break the recording up into smaller tracks anyway. So half way through the reel I save the project and start a new track. Makes it more manageable - the next phase is to start pulling the individual songs into their own tracks, but first I want to get them off the old tapes - some of which go back to 1964 and are starting to crumble in my hands.....

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    Re:MC5 truncates recording 2010/07/25 21:37:28 (permalink)
    Tape will do that. It also looses it's magnetism and prints a ghost image if left on the reel too long.

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