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The massively heavy, wildly intimidating format that birthed modern sound production. Before the digital age allowed infinite redos, engineers recorded live musicians directly onto enormous, rapidly spinning spools of magnetic tape. Editing literally required a razor blade and highly precise adhesive tape to physically slice out bad notes and stitch the good sections back together, making musical mistakes incredibly dangerous and highly tedious to fix.
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