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I think so? Having dug out my 16bit / 44.1kHz digital multitracker after a year or so of non use and having put the last creation from it through the Otari 5050 1/4" at 15ips and quite hot, I have to note how much nicer the result was than just off the BR1600's mastering functions. A nice bit of...

So like I was up in the attic on Friday night mucking around with three mike mixes on my crappy chinese drum kit and cheap cymbals with horrible drum kit and mike placement and no room treatment (asides every corner filled with spare house junk), and failing miserably as usual to get anything...

Here's one that's been sitting unfinished for a year from my digital noodlings on my Boss BR1600. I decided to throw on some lyrics and a bit of a guitar solo and finish it off. Usual stuff from me, recorded up in my untreated attic with me doing everything including a three mike mix on my...

Why does the main menu show that there are 2,389 threads in this user forum then only show me 3? Is it me or something else? :confused: D'oh!

Not much activity in this area so I'll stick something in it given that I've got a Boss BR1600 (and especially since Dave stuck up his Tascam digital post today in the Tascam forum)... I have this alter ego called Donald Deep Jeffs who does all original blues and country tunes that he records...

Do you use noise reduction when mixing down to 1/4" 15ips from tape based tracking? On the mixdown or master two track, not on playback of the source. Just interested to know what people do here. G

Hello friends. Here is the latest release on hand_art_sound, www.myspace.com/handartsound, an all analog C30 cassette EP by Stormcellar www.stormcellar.com.au. Five classic blues rock tunes in the 60's and 70's style recorded by us directly to two track 1/4" reel to reel. The name 'Spacejunk'...

Can you tell that it's a slow afternoon at the day job?

Hi there folks. I thought I'd put up another comparison for you this time with audio. This is a comparison of the same tune on 256k mp3 from two different sources, one sucked off a cd and the other from a cassette. It is exactly the same recording treated in two different ways. The cd one has...

Here's a link to a couple of the tunes we've been working on. Initially I wasn't going to post them up but I think we're close enough to the final form to have a sneaky preview. Recorded to the Revox PR99 1/4" machine at 15 ips via the Studer desk with a Neumann U87 on vox and an AKG C414B-ULS...

This is as about as lo-fi as I can get. I've been taking a Marantz PMD222 mono reporters cassette recorder into our rehearsal studio each week for Lonely Few sessions and setting it up with one Beyer M58 omni mike up near the roof and just letting it run. No dolby or anything sophisticated like...

Well here's the popsicle stick, cassette Portastudio four track, one mike, all acoustic, individually mastered cassette ep I was working on, now complete and released on hand_art_sound. It's called 'Standing Next To Jesus', not because I'm particularly born again but because the second track...

Today before our scheduled mixing session we ran a tape v. ProTools comparison session just to see if we could answer some questions in our own minds. We had already recorded a couple of live to two track 1/4" tape sessions of a friends boogie band. It sounded fantastic. Everything good you...

Mixdown on side one of Davey's solo all analog album... Studer configured Vocals 1, Guitar 2, gentle L/R pan. Spring reverb out and back into 9. Nagra IV running tape echo out and back into 10, vocals only. Sounded nice. Didn't bother with the Yamaha digital. Funny how sometimes a spring...

One band mate behind the glass with a Neumann U87, a 1970's Ibanez Artist, a Fender valve amp hidden away in the amp box, an AKG C414B-ULS and a bunch of original tunes. The Studer 089 with all it's faders restored and it's Beyer 64 talkback mike on now in situ at Goose, our local indie...

Greetings citizens I belong to this tiny 'other' forum that deals with matters of cassettes only. Currently there is a compilation being made of recordings where the cassette player is an integral part of the performance. A bit like Jeffs 'musique concrete' stuff. Having gone to the effort of...

I'd stuck a bit of this on SteveM's analog MIDI thread earlier today but I thought I'd stick it on here on it's own now that it's kind of done and I've decided to get it out. Like I said there, I've got this old Yamaha CS30 mono synth that's the devils own spawn when it comes to running the...

Do you have it? Do you use it? How do you use it? I guess I'd call it 'cassette tape based equipment minimalist' - say a four track cassette recorder and a single microphone. Here's my little Tascam rig, an MF-P01 with a BeyerDynamic M58 omni & a nice pair of JVC headphones. I use for four...

Man, all these lovely cassette studio's popping up on the favorite kit thread prompted me to show you this; I found a thing on Paypal called a Xilab that lets you create a little shopfront you can attach to a MySpace site. Perfect for sweating the small stuff that the fees'd kill in eBay. So I...

A poll to see who uses what as their prime tracking tool these days. I've deliberately not put in a combination option. If you do, please indicate the primary one and maybe give us an explaination of how you interface it to your other options. :) Jed