boucing from tape to computer, then back again.

[christiandaelemans]

hey all. i’m just about done with my tape project, and i really really appreciate the stereo image of having 2 guitars and a bounced bass and drum track all in different places. but i really really want double tracked vocals, which i just can’t with only 1 remaining track.

am i able to fill up all 4 tracks on every song, bounce the mixed product to a computer with the line outs, and then bring it all back into 2 left and right channels on the tascam, leaving me able to record double track vocals in the remaining 2 channels? all to be bounced back again to computer for distribution.

ALSO, bonus question: i’m wanting to crunch the whole mix/ finished song with an alesis microlimiter. should i wait until the final final bounce with the vocals added to crunch it? or should i do the instrumental as it comes out the machine? thanks.

 

[sweetbeats]

Yes you can dump the three tracks to the computer, make a stereo mix of that and track that to two tracks on a fresh section of tape, leaving not only the original tracks still on tape but now two available tracks for you two vocal tracks.

As far as the limiter you can try it both ways, but if it was me I’d start with just the instruments. Are you using the computer as your master recorder?

 

[christiandaelemans]

Yes you can dump the three tracks to the computer, make a stereo mix of that and track that to two tracks on a fresh section of tape, leaving not only the original tracks still on tape but now two available tracks for you two vocal tracks.

As far as the limiter you can try it both ways, but if it was me I’d start with just the instruments. Are you using the computer as your master recorder?

essentially. i’m using it as the final place that these tracks will live on. i don’t care about individually isolating anything after it’s onto the computer, all the mixing is being done on the 244.

basically, the computer is a mirror. i want reflect the mix on the 244 to the computer, and then give a reflection of the same mix back to the 244, and since it’s a 2 channel drop, it should encompass everything that the right ear and left ear were hearing with 4 tracks full of panned instruments. then i can add vocals into 2 tracks, and then take out again this time with compression so the whole mix sounded like it was a 6 track production.

will there be noticable degradation of sound after it’s bounced onto tape again after it reaches the computer? and how bad will it be?

 

[sweetbeats]

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essentially. i’m using it as the final place that these tracks will live on. i don’t care about individually isolating anything after it’s onto the computer, all the mixing is being done on the 244.

basically, the computer is a mirror. i want reflect the mix on the 244 to the computer, and then give a reflection of the same mix back to the 244, and since it’s a 2 channel drop, it should encompass everything that the right ear and left ear were hearing with 4 tracks full of panned instruments. then i can add vocals into 2 tracks, and then take out again this time with compression so the whole mix sounded like it was a 6 track production.

will there be noticable degradation of sound after it’s bounced onto tape again after it reaches the computer? and how bad will it be?

There Will be generational loss just like with any bounce. Expect the same degradation as you would with any bounce operation.

 

[Scott Baxendale]

hey all. i’m just about done with my tape project, and i really really appreciate the stereo image of having 2 guitars and a bounced bass and drum track all in different places. but i really really want double tracked vocals, which i just can’t with only 1 remaining track.

am i able to fill up all 4 tracks on every song, bounce the mixed product to a computer with the line outs, and then bring it all back into 2 left and right channels on the tascam, leaving me able to record double track vocals in the remaining 2 channels? all to be bounced back again to computer for distribution.

ALSO, bonus question: i’m wanting to crunch the whole mix/ finished song with an alesis microlimiter. should i wait until the final final bounce with the vocals added to crunch it? or should i do the instrumental as it comes out the machine? thanks.

I used to record on a TEAC 3340 and originally we would record on three tracks and then bounce those three onto track four to free up the three tracks again. We even did this multiple times losing fidelity each time. But then I got an another reel to reel which was a 1/4 track stereo machine. So now we could record on 4 tracks and then bounce this down to a stereo mix onto two tracks of the other machine. I could even record another live track during the bounce to make it 5 tracks going into two. Then we could put that reel back on the 4 track machine and have two more tracks. This allowed me to keep a stereo mix throughout the process. You can use your computer exactly the same way I used the 1/4 track stereo deck.