Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Like Grunge, nobody used a metronome.

It was like everything in the 80s was on the grid and they invented SMPTE and all that shit to put everything in line and make it perfect.

And then Sampling drums so that, God forbid, the guy doesn't hit it as hard as he did in the last

beat.

But that OLED screen could...

That OLED screen can be used as a reference monitor, so it encompasses the entire Adobe Color Gamut, and it encompasses SMPTE 2020 Color Gamut, so you can do HDR

on it.

That's a lot of colors, Jay.

Uh, what was, what, what ended up really being the problem? And this, even when I first started doing some, some of the recording was, was getting, uh, tape machines to chase each other and, and, and sync issues.

And that's where you get SMPTE timecode and all those kinds of things, which actually we still use to this day, uh, in, uh, television recording, we still use SMPTE timecode.

Um, But now, you know, now a pro tool session could have 64 tracks and the computer won't miss a fucking beat.

Right.

Back in those days, it was all still film.

This is when you still had SMPTE timecode and you had to have pre-roll and post-roll.

So you had to have like 30 seconds before the cue started because the machines all had to see each other and they had to lock up to the SMPTE timecode sync, which had the corresponding window burn, right? and you couldn't really go into record even until they were in sync otherwise it would get this weird aliasing sound

yeah

so um so anyway so so once the film had been cut like a final cut then in i mean i scored about a dozen films myself low budget films and then uh I'd been working with Tom Newman for several years, like 15 years at that point almost.

I've heard that term before, sympty.

What is sympty? SMPTE is time code.

It's sort of this international standard so that all the machines could speak to each other, kind of like MIDI ended up being a little bit later.

But it's a way that you can, it's literally a sort of a, it's like a click track, but it's a machine sound where you can synchronize other machines.

I actually deleted it from the podcast.

I actually delete them from the files whenever I get them, but we'll play it for you here.

This is what SMPTE sounds like.

So the other things we learned from this is that this song was recorded at Green Street Recording in New York, which at the time, on 112 Green Street.

So it's been...

I, I did an interview with the president of SMPTE-

Mm

... uh, and, and that'll come out on, on AV Nation.