mixing down a 4-track recording?

[sharpie00]

i get the feeling this question is asked a lot, but i couldn't find any threads about it, so here goes.

when mixing down a 4-track recording, tracks 1 and 2 play fine, but tracks 3 and 4 play backwards. how can i fix that?

 

[fldrummer]

What are you using?

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Sounds like you recorded 2 of the tracks then flipped the tape over before recording the other 2 tracks of a 4-track cassette multitracker........

That's not the way it works... in multrack cassette recording, you don't flip the tape over - - you record all four tracks in the same tape direction, as if the tape were only one-sided....

When you mixdown, you have to mix down from the 4-track unit ONTO another 2-track recorder of some type. You don't play multitrack cassette tapes in a standard cassette deck.......