Portastudio/4 tracks cassette tips & tricks

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Dreverb

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Hello all.
I'd love to know some tricks you may have learned or discover for using portastudios.
I currently have a Tascam 244 and a Akai Mg614, and I am quite happy with them.

I know some people like to record takes pushing a little the eq on the high side to prevent a later base or muddy mix.

Other things I've been doing is, having a two channel daw interface is to use the computer as a preamp, with effects and use, either the headphone or main outs to record on the portastudio, also monitoring from it. This way you can record a clean take on the computer, maybe for backup, and use some comp, delay or reverb plugins directly into the tape.

Only thing is , please,be very careful if you use the main balanced outs into your portastudio unbalanced inputs. You could fry the preamps and ruin a beautiful machine. So have a look at the meters and don't let them go too much into the red, just a little.

Also if your interface can deliver different mixes for the headphones, you could transfer a four tracks session from the computer to the portastudio, using the 2 main outs and splitting in mono the stereo headphone out. I am doing this with an Audient id22 and it is great.

Hope it helps somebody and would love to know some other tricks.
 
thanks, I will surely buy it!
Could you share maybe one of those tricks?
thanks anyway!
 
The pseudo 12 string trick is cool. It's been a while since I watched it.
If I remember correctly, he would record a guitar part on one track and then double that part on another track at a slightly different speed using the pitch control. Upon playback, you would get this cool chorusy sound.
 
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