Brassplyer wrote:
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Movies like Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz, all those MGM musicals - they often had fairly involved soundtracks - on-set spoken dialogue and other sounds, big bands and orchestral scores, sound effects. My assumption is when tape arrived you could balance it all in a studio and sync it up with the film to be transferred to the optical soundtrack.
How was the audio mixed and the levels kept balanced before they had tape?
** Perfectly possible to store audio on a freshly cut vinyl disk and play it back with exceptional quality in the 30s and 40s. Leaves tape for dead.
Tape is merely convenient, while optical has no quality at all and requires processing.
For a while, before CD arrived, pressed copies of direct cut 12 inch LPs were the best source of hi-fi sound available to the general public.
Owned a few myself - eg.
https://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/james_e.html
...... Phil