On rare occasions they would record a tone to one track of a machine, and use that to feed an amplifier driving the capstan of the other machine. Getting them to start together was quite a trick, and was done by hand.
Original tracks were always preserved. The bounce was always to a second machine, and they kept all the original reels.I'm curious, too, about how they got all the first generation tracks digitized, since I'd understood the same thing... that the bouncing was happening to free up tracks for more tracking, meaning they'd be wiped after the "reduction" to another track or stereo pair, if they even did that. I suppose they could've bounced to another machine, then archived the first generation tape instead of reusing it. That would be some serious forward-thinking.
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