epsilon114
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Hi everyone. Today I bought an old Akai 4000DS for $25 in an auction along with heaps of tape.
I'm totally new to recording on tape, but I like the idea of recording analogue. I've tried to a bit of reading around the web on recording on tape, but the information is a bit scarce in places.
I'm hoping to do some sort of rough multitrack recording on this machine, and playing around today I got it in a rough field but still had some latency. Apparently this machine has a 'Sound on sound' feature, which sounds like it's some sort of method of bouncing audio to one track. Question is, is there any way I can minimize latency on this machine using the 'sound on sound' feature? Otherwise, are there any methods with multitracking that make it a bit easier to get rid of the lag?
Otherwise, it's a great machine! I'm not too worried at the moment about calibrating it to be perfect; currently I'm just trying to teach myself how it all works and the hands on feel of working with tape.
Cheers!
I'm totally new to recording on tape, but I like the idea of recording analogue. I've tried to a bit of reading around the web on recording on tape, but the information is a bit scarce in places.
I'm hoping to do some sort of rough multitrack recording on this machine, and playing around today I got it in a rough field but still had some latency. Apparently this machine has a 'Sound on sound' feature, which sounds like it's some sort of method of bouncing audio to one track. Question is, is there any way I can minimize latency on this machine using the 'sound on sound' feature? Otherwise, are there any methods with multitracking that make it a bit easier to get rid of the lag?
Otherwise, it's a great machine! I'm not too worried at the moment about calibrating it to be perfect; currently I'm just trying to teach myself how it all works and the hands on feel of working with tape.
Cheers!