What is Synchro Dubbing?

[Yeeterkeeter]

I just ordered my first cassette player, and has a feature called 'Synchro Dubbing', and I was just wondering what that is and what it does.

Thanks!

 

[gadget73]

its basically a dual tape setup that lets you play a tape and record it to the other at the same time. Sometimes the cheap ones ran a single motor for all this which forced them to run at the same speed, so "in sync". Might also be that brand's name for high speed dubbing, which is just running things at 2-3x the normal speed while it copies.

 

[twiiii]

Thats where you change one or two channels to the record head for playback and then when you record the remaining desired channel used for recording will be in sync. Professional Ampex machines were equiped with an external " SEL Sync " switcher. I had one with a AG-440-4 C. But very seldom used it unless some one screwed up on the solo track. It was used some times when making sync announcements at the radio station that needed correcting then dubbed to carts.

 

[Yeeterkeeter]

Thats where you change one or two channels to the record head for playback and then when you record the remaining desired channel used for recording will be in sync. Professional Ampex machines were equiped with an external " SEL Sync " switcher. I had one with a AG-440-4 C. But very seldom used it unless some one screwed up on the solo track. It was used some times when making sync announcements at the radio station that needed correcting then dubbed to carts.

So its used to edit mixtapes? Or am I missing something?

 

[dankik]

According to a JVC manual (if that's what you have) Synchro dubbing is copying one tape to another either at normal speed or high speed (see excerpt from JVC manual). @gadget73 described it above. It is used to make a duplicate tape. I think if you wanted to make a mix tape you would manually cue-up the song on the play deck slightly before the music you want to dub, place the record deck into REC PAUSE, start the playback and release the pause. Hit pause again when the song is over to stop recording and cue up the next song.



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[gadget73]

Right, its so you can borrow your friend's tapes and make a worse sounding copy of it. Especially if you run it in high speed mode.