Post Your Analog Recordings Here...

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Hello guys and gals, here are 5 short drum (big kit I put together) solos recorded on the Tascam 424 PortaStudio with 4 mics. But I just realized after taking a re-listen, that when I recorded it (early 2000) that I adjusted mics accordingly after each short solo.You may notice around take 3 the mic placement difference. Ambient reverb (artificial) was added I think when I mixed it down to CD on takes 4 and 5, you should hear a big difference on them last two takes. Im posting all 5 solos here so you can see how things progressed....thanks for listening !!! :D
 

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Since the end of June, I've been working on a video for a contest at work. It's my ultimate dream to become a film composer, so this is something special to me, and hopefully the beginning of my future career. I used all the same equipment that I used on Lacrimosa (Teac 4-track tape deck, Behringer mixer as preamp, Yamaha digital mixer) but it's been more than a year since I recorded that, and I've learned a bit more since then. Like for instance, how to get rid of most of that pesky noise that plagued Lacrimosa's recording. Here, there's nothing but a pleasing amount of tape hiss.

Listen to the score here:
The Lights of Seven Falls - Score | Joseph Irvin

Watch the video here:
The Lights of Seven Falls FAKE TRAILER - YouTube
 
Hammerstone said:
Since the end of June, I've been working on a video for a contest at work. It's my ultimate dream to become a film composer, so this is something special to me, and hopefully the beginning of my future career. I used all the same equipment that I used on Lacrimosa (Teac 4-track tape deck, Behringer mixer as preamp, Yamaha digital mixer) but it's been more than a year since I recorded that, and I've learned a bit more since then. Like for instance, how to get rid of most of that pesky noise that plagued Lacrimosa's recording. Here, there's nothing but a pleasing amount of tape hiss.

Listen to the score here:
The Lights of Seven Falls - Score | Joseph Irvin

Watch the video here:
The Lights of Seven Falls FAKE TRAILER - YouTube
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I really like this! Sounds great and could be a totally cool sounding backing for many scenes.
It also makes me want to dig out my recorder and learn how to play it.
 
Thanks. I didn't write out a full score, because that would have been hard to follow. Never having any formal learning with the recorder, I wouldn't know how to notate what I played anyway, but basically just play it really badly and you'll be on the right track.
 
Good tune, Jason! :thumbs up:

Didn't sound too sloppy to me either!

What speakers do you use to mix on?

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Good tune, Jason! :thumbs up:

Didn't sound too sloppy to me either!

What speakers do you use to mix on?

Cheers! :)
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Thanks Jeff.
Im using yorkville monitors that I got from L&M.
Not the greatest but they make sound;)
Think I might try a remix as my messy drumming seems a little too loud and my howling is a little loud also.
Thanks for listening
 
The only thing I noticed in the mix was a bit of thin bottom end and wanted to hear a bit more of a driving bass guitar to help that out. That's why I asked about the speakers, thinking they might be a bit boomy in the bottom end and you mixing the bass a bit softer to compensate for that. It's tricky to get stuff like that spot on but your mix is pretty balanced otherwise.

Cheers! :)
 
Okay, here's another one of my epic fantasy type songs:

https://soundcloud.com/dougtheeagle/a-song-about-clan-daryil-take

The song was written in SONAR as all my songs are, then recorded on a TASCAM MSR-24 multitrack using Rosegarden. Bass and vocals were recorded on my TSR-8 and then copied to the multitrack when I was happy with them.

"Happy" being a relative word since some of the bass playing feels a bit shaky and will probably have to be revisited. If my crazy plan bears fruit I will probably revisit the minimoog and mellotron parts anyway since it's possible I'll have a gear overhaul in the coming months.

Equipment used:
Korg Triton EX - Drums
Roland MVS-1 - Synth bass
Roland JV1010 - additional percussion, distorted organ
Hammond XM-1 organ
Creamware Minimax ASB - minimoog leads and additional synth bass
Waldorf MicroWave - additional synth lead at end
Waldorf Pulse - additional synth bass
TornadoTron - for those choirs, flutes and strings
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic - bass
Apex 460 valve microphone

I'm fairly pleased with the mix (done on a Studer A807 on SM900), I have made some signal chain improvements and lowered the overall levels to try and reduce the clipping problems that have been occurring recently, and I think I've got it.
 
This is an interesting thread and a very difficult one because we are analog nuts right? To post a hacked up digital version is not really fair to the intentions of the process right?

My feeling and from experience as a professional is that at this point in time, one can mix for analog or mix for digital. We did a digital record a few years back that we intentionally mixed so it would sound best on crappy things like ipods and computer speakers. Very punchy without a lot of nuance, because that great stuff gets lost when you keep slamming it down with bit rates and compressing the files.

When we played back what we did... on a real proper analog stereo.. tube amps, big Klipsch Forte ll speakers in a proper room.. it sounded horrible. Flat, compressed, lifeless, just like most all digital music sounds.

The last record we did... we recorded it all analog on tape reels and used tube amps for monitoring and mixing down.. and it sounds wonderful in the analog world. I don't like compression, and like to really keep things open and real sounding.. and if you record things properly, you don't need to use EQ or much in the way of outboard gear or other signal processing which really damages the sound in my opinion.

The beautiful recordings we did sounded awful once we dropped them into 24 bit... and worse when dithered down to 16 bit... and really horrid when mp3 ed. So much was lost at each stage of digital compromising.

It's a pretty sad state we are in generally speaking with most everyone using ipods and iphones as their primary listening devices.

Getting back on point.. I would guess that a lot of the recordings posted here sound really good in the analog world.. and not so good here.. so to critic one's work here based upon listening to it on bad speakers and digitally converted just isn't going to show anyone here what is really in the song.

We can hear the melodies and such, arrangement etc.. but beyond that.. it's difficult to critic.
 
Astralography said:
This is an interesting thread and a very difficult one because we are analog nuts right? To post a hacked up digital version is not really fair to the intentions of the process right?

My feeling and from experience as a professional is that at this point in time, one can mix for analog or mix for digital. We did a digital record a few years back that we intentionally mixed so it would sound best on crappy things like ipods and computer speakers. Very punchy without a lot of nuance, because that great stuff gets lost when you keep slamming it down with bit rates and compressing the files.

When we played back what we did... on a real proper analog stereo.. tube amps, big Klipsch Forte ll speakers in a proper room.. it sounded horrible. Flat, compressed, lifeless, just like most all digital music sounds.

The last record we did... we recorded it all analog on tape reels and used tube amps for monitoring and mixing down.. and it sounds wonderful in the analog world. I don't like compression, and like to really keep things open and real sounding.. and if you record things properly, you don't need to use EQ or much in the way of outboard gear or other signal processing which really damages the sound in my opinion.

The beautiful recordings we did sounded awful once we dropped them into 24 bit... and worse when dithered down to 16 bit... and really horrid when mp3 ed. So much was lost at each stage of digital compromising.

It's a pretty sad state we are in generally speaking with most everyone using ipods and iphones as their primary listening devices.

Getting back on point.. I would guess that a lot of the recordings posted here sound really good in the analog world.. and not so good here.. so to critic one's work here based upon listening to it on bad speakers and digitally converted just isn't going to show anyone here what is really in the song.

We can hear the melodies and such, arrangement etc.. but beyond that.. it's difficult to critic.
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While I agree some of the 'magic mojo' is lost in translation, I think a decent analog recording should translate fairly well to just about any medium (low bit-rate mp3/streaming, maybe not ... but that's the case with digital recordings as well).

Recordings sound different in different environments, playback systems, etc. I think the mark of a good recording and mix is that it can translate well across mediums and formats. I mean, 'Good Vibrations' by the Beach Boys sounds good on vinyl 45, vinyl 33, 8-track, cassette, CD, mp3, etc.

So I guess what I'm getting at is that I disagree with the presumption that posting your recordings here defeats the purpose of sharing analog recordings. Analog is, after all, as much a process as a medium. Short of a tape-sharing group, this is about as good as it gets!
 
Here's something from a few years back I realized I never shared ... I played in a group named Chelsea Manor 2009-2010 in Austin, TX.

Some of the recordings are here:

Chelsea Manor Electronic Press Kit - Streaming Music, Photos, Videos, Lyrics and Info - Sonicbids

This was cut on a Tascam 16-track (I think the MS-16 model), and mixed to my old Tascam 22-2 half-track at 15 ips.

The group was a side project for me ... Nothing really became of the band, but the leader Dante played in Magic Hero vs. Rock People with me, and is also in the Stereotypes (based out of San Diego). I think he's going to be releasing some of this material in his new project soon.

Incidentally, the Stereotypes are an analog band as well .. they have their own studio and record on a 3M M56 I think:

The Stereotypes- Emily - YouTube

They've had a bit of success with songs on TV shows like 'Californication', and have songs on commercials, etc.
 
New Spökraket album

Here goes an album of psyche, shoegaze, acidfolk and weird studio experiments. All recording and mixing is done in the analogue domain, the mastering job is done in digital as we figured it would cost us lots of cash to make an analog mastering without building up more hiss than is already on the recordings.

Sorry about the poor fidelity of the streaming. Download in FLAC if you like it and ain't too broke.

Darling Adharma | Spökraket
 
lonewhitefly said:
Here's something from a few years back I realized I never shared ... I played in a group named Chelsea Manor 2009-2010 in Austin, TX.
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Nice stuff. Incidentally, did you ever get anywhere with the remastered version of 'Oak of the Golden Dream'?
 
jpmorris said:
Nice stuff. Incidentally, did you ever get anywhere with the remastered version of 'Oak of the Golden Dream'?
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Yeh, I did re-transfer the 1/4" through an analog EQ to improve the bass response. I'll send you one!
 
WarmJetGuitar said:
Here goes an album of psyche, shoegaze, acidfolk and weird studio experiments. All recording and mixing is done in the analogue domain, the mastering job is done in digital as we figured it would cost us lots of cash to make an analog mastering without building up more hiss than is already on the recordings.

Sorry about the poor fidelity of the streaming. Download in FLAC if you like it and ain't too broke.

Darling Adharma | Spökraket
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I like this stuff. I wish all independent groups out there would go all-analog !!!

I plan on branching out and recording and producing other bands in the next year or so.
 
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