Nod to The Legend · The inventions · 1955
Ross Snyder and Sel-Sync
Ampex engineer
Snyder worked out how to use the record head to play back, so a musician could hear earlier tracks in perfect time while recording a new one. Ampex called it Sel-Sync.
Still heard: Punch-ins and overdubs in every DAW work the way he made possible.
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