From Irene McC Sent Wed, Jan 6th 1999, 12:51
From Irene McC Sent Wed, Jan 6th 1999, 12:51
On 5 Jan 99, Petter Ottosson wrote re: Re: (idm) lock groove: > the length of the music is the > same no matter where on the record a groove is located. Ah! Yes, this does shed some extra light on things. What I gathered initially is that ONLY the runout groove can be turned into an endless repeat lock groove, which I understand and can see. What you are saying though is that it can be anywhere on the record, providing that one physically picks up the stylus and moves on the needle, otherwise it will keep on repeating itself, right? Which comes back to the initial post which described that the track *after* the lock groove kept playing from inside out, ie, coming back in _towards_ the lock groove, which, thus, had to be located somewhere preceding the runout grooves. Elementary, my dear Watson ... huh?? And the POINT of lock grooves is .... ? I imagine it is useful for mixing - is that the only purpose they serve? I *