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>- My boy showed me the method of pulling the tape to the black
>at the beginning of your mix so you never risked the recording
>process coming in late and you never wasted a second of tape.

Huh. I wish I had learned that. I always did it by sound. There's always this only slightly hiss/click when the tape starts rolling into the black. I'd wait to hear that hiss/click then press reocrd and play. I'd less maybe a second or so.