Reilley
New member
I looked at the mixing/mastering category, but ANALOG seems a more appropriate place to post.
What George Martin did on Sgt. Pepper was: used a 4-track, filled up the four tracks with say, vocals; then mixed the four down to one track on an identical machine; then started over again on four more tracks. This way, he got at least 16 tracks mixed down to 4. Of course there is tape noise and theoretically. quality suffers, but how much did it suffer if it made Sgt. Pepper? (By the way, Martin discusses this is his biography, which should be mandatory reading for anyone seriously interested in recording.)
Anyway, my question is: for demo purposes. can the same thing be done on a portastudio-type unit, on cassette? Has anyone here done this mixdown thing on cassete (or reels for that matter). I'm wondering if, in cassette, the quality really WOULD suffer, since the tape is just so small.
Thanks for any feedback.
What George Martin did on Sgt. Pepper was: used a 4-track, filled up the four tracks with say, vocals; then mixed the four down to one track on an identical machine; then started over again on four more tracks. This way, he got at least 16 tracks mixed down to 4. Of course there is tape noise and theoretically. quality suffers, but how much did it suffer if it made Sgt. Pepper? (By the way, Martin discusses this is his biography, which should be mandatory reading for anyone seriously interested in recording.)
Anyway, my question is: for demo purposes. can the same thing be done on a portastudio-type unit, on cassette? Has anyone here done this mixdown thing on cassete (or reels for that matter). I'm wondering if, in cassette, the quality really WOULD suffer, since the tape is just so small.
Thanks for any feedback.