I have a Tascam 388 analog 8-track, Tascam 688 analog 8-track, DAW, and great external hardware MIDI sequencer with many vintage synths. I don't like to work on the computer and don't prefer the digital sound, but have some knowledge and experience with Cubase. I have been using my tape machines, striping the tape with timecode, sync'd to my hardware sequencer. However, on my last demo, the tape started to get very wonky after hundreds of tape passes and overdubs as I 'experiment' to come up with new musical parts while playing back my tape countless times. For my next recording, it seems I should develop a hybrid recording technique where I can record vocals and guitars to the tape, then quickly get them off the tape and into the DAW, still sync'd to MIDI somehow, so I can experiment without degrading the tape in the process, then record new analog tracks and continuously bring them into the DAW along the way.
I am having a hard time visualizing how to make this process work though, keeping it all sync'd, and adding analog tracks to my song in the DAW progressively rather than an all at once 8-track dump. It seems like there could be a way have 'unlimited' analog tape tracks by progressively taking them into the DAW through the working process.
Does anyone else work in a similar fashion?
I am having a hard time visualizing how to make this process work though, keeping it all sync'd, and adding analog tracks to my song in the DAW progressively rather than an all at once 8-track dump. It seems like there could be a way have 'unlimited' analog tape tracks by progressively taking them into the DAW through the working process.
Does anyone else work in a similar fashion?