effect to 4-track

[sovslol]

hello.... i have a original tascam 424 and i want to apply some delay on three of my tracks... But i cant figure out how to do it.
I have set up the whole effect loop("mono mode"into stereo channel 5-6) and it sounds the way it should in the headphones, using the "tape mode" on the three tracks to hear it with left/right monitoring(not cue)

but how do i record it? do i record it to new tracks? i cant do that when i have allready used 3 tracks.......... isnt there a way to just blend it with the existing tracks, like if you put reverb on a on a clip in cubase....

i dont get it...
sorry im noob

please help

 

[andyhix]

Usually the fx are added when to the mixdown (you could record them to a seperate track if you have a blank track available, I suppose, but I don't see why you would want to). You need to mixdown to a seperate recorder of some sort - computer, stand alone CD burner, Minidisk, Tape recorder, etc. By twiddling the fx knobs, you can adjust the amount of "wet" in the mix. This, along with the rest of the tracks gets mixed and sent through the "line out" jacks.

 

[Robert D]

Yup, what he said. This is the way it was done back in the day. Effects were rarely printed to tape on the multitrack. Instead they were mixed in live during the mixdown to 2-track. Even when there were spare tracks available, it was cleaner to aux them in during mixdown than it was to bounce the track plus effects to another track. With tape, noise adds up fast with track bounces. Even with digital it's a good idea to not change the original tracks.

-RD

 

[up-fiddler]

Yup, what he said. This is the way it was done back in the day. Effects were rarely printed to tape on the multitrack. Instead they were mixed in live during the mixdown to 2-track. Even when there were spare tracks available, it was cleaner to aux them in during mixdown than it was to bounce the track plus effects to another track. With tape, noise adds up fast with track bounces. Even with digital it's a good idea to not change the original tracks.

-RD

What he said! The other advantage it offers is if you are unhappy with the final product you can remaster and add/delete delay. It's hard to impossible to cut back on verbs and delays once they are on an individual track. Dave