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alright y’all, here’s the final versions of those songs i posted a while ago. have at it!! self-titled record tascam 38, dbx noise reduction, a tascam m512 board with some alesis effects units and stereo buss compressor. mastered and mixed by me in my bedroom.

yeah, i might have deleted that file. i’m beginning the releasing process now for that album (i’ve told the public it’s going to be released 7/7), and here’s one of the songs that’s finished and released as a single of a few days ago: here it certainly sounds a lot better than the audio that...

i’ll be adding one more song before it hits spotify this june, an instrumental that i did with keyboard, double tracked acoustic and recently with added double track drums (yes!! it sounds quite cool) and a cool little bass thing. anyone heard of elliot smith??? it sounds quite like a song of...

hey all. i’ve got a big fat file to share. after a couple weeks of trying to mix these songs to perfection by digitizing the stems and mixing through my board with my interface, things were clicking and doing weird dynamic crap and i was like “this sucks!!! back to tape!!!” so, i mixed every...

yeah i’m certainly going to buy a wand. thing is though, considering how this entire record has been my first foray into analog reel to reel and i don’t intend on leaving, and i only need to have one more pass of every song to digitize this record, i’ll wait until i get new tape and begin...

maybe i should get a wand… about how many feet away is a good distance to make the demagnetization gradual? with regards to the tape, i’m still certainly going to be digitizing my multitracks and maybe even mixing down the stereo 2 buss WITH the digital stems rather than the tape. that means...

i have never demagged my machine MYSELF, however when i bought it from the folks who serviced it, they did demag the heads. think of my machine as 5 months without demagnetizing, as i went straight into album production without noodling with recording. if im being honest, since i dont have any...

addendum: i am using new ATR master tape, probably manufactured over a year ago and only been used by me for a couple months. so my personal work doesn’t involve any type of sticky shed fear or whatever else may come from using old tape.

hey y’all. i have a question that i’ve poked around about online but never got a straight answer or discussion about, maybe because it’s so obvious. but, especially for those who used to work with tape in the 70s, 80s and 90s, did you ever worry about degrading the multitrack tapes during mixing...

yeah, i discovered the dreadful (but kind of hilarious) reality right before work, and when i got home i took some seriously detailed pictures of my heads. they look totally fine, with the full middle strip down the width of the edge gaps totally intact and not uneven or anything. HUGE SIGH OF...

still thinking about this while at work…. every time i fast wound or rewound, the machine was basically in cue mode against the heads. do this about 10 hours at least a week…… from january to april… probably a bit more than that. well, the fact that the heads still sound completely fine and the...

that is… actually insane. i’ve recorded a whole 10.5” reel of tapes worth of music over the span of 4 months with THE TAPE PATH THREADED INCORRECTLY AND I NEVER NOTICED 😭 i feel fortunate that nothing went horribly wrong and my heads still look and sound totally fine. perhaps i’ve extended the...

now that i’m thinking about this…. so this means that the tape lifters were pressing against the tape when playing and recording….. i mean my tape heads are fine, but this might explain the issues with 7 and 8 if the contact between the tape and the heads was irregular. i just played a tape...

someone can please riddle me this one….. but i just found out that ALL OF THIS TIME when i’ve been recording and using my tascam 38, i had the tape path threaded incorrectly with the tape lifters bypassed. basically, putting the tape under (not pressed against) the lifters and resting against...

alright, here’s video 1 where the 38 is being ran horizontal and is experiencing the issue i mentioned: here and here’s video 2 where i put it back up on its feet and it runs FINE, totally normally. playback isn’t slow or anything either. here @sweetbeats, what is your take on running the...

i’ll be home shortly and i’ll take video of it. it isn’t the end of the world, i feel as though i could make things MUCH MUCH worse by opening up the machine and poking around with the electronics. it’s simply an inconvenience, as i’ll now have to press fast forward and wait a few seconds for...

last night, i rearranged my deck to be laying horizontal and ran the tape a few times. it astounded me how NOISY the 3-screw NAB reel was on the supply side as it was clacking against the tape. meanwhile, the 6-screw reel had the tape flowing perfectly into the flange and even when i fast wind...

thanks for reminding me of this, i read this a while back but completely forgot about it and i think about this machines mortality a lot more these days… a desk set up change is in order.

hey y’all, i’ve been pretty active on here the last few days. maybe a little too active… but anyways: i’ve scored some 6-screw heavy duty precision reels! 1 is here, another one is coming in a few days (i bought one, and then bought another from the same listing the day after) and i have some...

yeah, i’ll have to tame them in the real proper mix down. though, it’s certainly a style i’m going for with vocals that sometimes almost sound elusive and hidden behind the curtain that is some of the double track guitar noise. but it needs to be pleasing to the ear as much as possible, without...