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Originally Posted by Sqye ok, here goes. 
Years ago, I'm recording a live African band in 4 separate rooms (including a large ensemble room and concert hall) on 3 floors of studios all set up with radios, video talkback, etc..
I'm the tape op punch master. 24 tracks enabled.
We're doing bass od's. I punch in for ONE 8th note, only FORGOT TO DISENGAGE RECORD ON THE OTHER 23 INPUTS!! So erased 23 instrument inputss for one 8th note!!!! |
I've got a similar one!!!
I was cutting horns for a Hatian band, overdubs on an MTR-90. The locater is to my left, between me and the bandleader. There are about a dozen people too many in the control room all watching the horn players in the live room and it's
really crowded and warm from all the tube gear and the desk.
Well, the band leader got a bit ummmm...overly excited and started jumping up and down yelling at someone else in the control room when his arm came down onto the MTR-90 locater...throwing about 17 or 18 of our 24 tracks into record for a few seconds before I stopped the tape!!!
So I wound back and we listened to the six and a half second hole in the middle of their tune. Only the bandleader could speak English but I'm pretty sure that the rest of the natives were just as unhappy. We ended up moving on to another tune and we finished the day without fixing or really speaking of "the incident".
I talked to the big man a few days later and we ended up being able to fix the song. Since it was a chorus that got mangled, we copied and flew a different chorus into place, two-tracks at a time with Sound Tools!!!