DAW-tape-DAW service?

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Hi Home Recorders,

I'm curious as to how my music would benefit from some tape magic. Unfortunately, I don't own/know anybody with a good tape machine (I have an old cassette recorder myself).
My question is this, do any of you know an affordable service where I can have my finished tracks run through a nice tape deck? It's around 20 minutes of stereo sound in WAV format.

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I'll answer your question with a question:

What are you hoping to achieve by sending your digital audio to tape and back?
 
sweetbeats said:
I'll answer your question with a question:

What are you hoping to achieve by sending your digital audio to tape and back?
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Aesthetic saturation, an overall "glue"-like effect, interesting results differing from those I may get from the tools available to me, basically some mojo.
 
I've dabbled with analogue and digital over the years.

Up to recently, I've struggled to hear the difference between stuff I've recorded digitally, then sent analogue.

My suspicion is that the 'magic' occurs during tracking to analogue. This is where all the phase coherence of the sound in the room is maintained and represented in its truest form. This is especially true (IMHO) when multiple mics are setup (drum-kit) or there is more than one performer performing simultaneously.
My current setup, when I've finished the massive re-wiring job, will enable me to record simultaneously direct from the desk to:

1. TASCAM MX2424 digital hard disk.

2. TASCAM MSR16 1/2" analogue

3. TASCAM MS-16 1" analogue.

I'll have them synchronised hopefully via the TASCAM Midiizer and IF-1000. Whether the MX2424 will behave like a slaved 'sequencer' during the syncing process will determine whether all three could be synced at one or a combination of two. I hope to replicate a cheap man's version of the CLASP system. It will be interesting to record straight to the MX2424, as well as recording the output of the recorders themselves (which is what CLASP does).

After tracking is finished, the MX2424 can be used for setting mixes up (and saving the wear and tear on the R2R), then switched to the MS-16 (or MSR16) for final playback and master mix.

That's the idea, anyhow.

I hope to possibly offer this service to paid clients (which I've never done before) but could fit into a niche market....we'll see.

Al
 
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