Post Your Analog Recordings Here...

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Mark7 said:
Glad you liked it.

Record more Magic Rock People :p ;)
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ha, yeh we're working on another Magic Hero album currently ... it'll probably be awhile before it's ready though. The working title is 'The Second Great Awakening'.
 
Ah cool.

I'm hoping my band "Frantic Drift" will be able to lay down some tracks on our friend Jon's new MSR16 based set up in December.

But if that's not a go-er, there's always the 388 option.
 
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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Great stuff, always enjoy your releases although this is probably my favourite. Hope it's not too much hassle shipping the cassette to Australia :drunk:
 
I recorded this song on august the 19th! In Edinburg, Texas. Like 5 mins away from mexico! :drunk: I dont know what brand of tape machine but it was a 24 track 2" with wooden panels..
 
Here's a 1970-style ballad I've just recorded.
https://soundcloud.com/dougtheeagle/what-did-daniel-think-he-was

It was done on an MSR-24 using 13 channels (16 track was available in the target period). It's a rerecording of an earlier piece I did for my fourth album using better technology. The vocals were copied from the original master tape.
Mixing was done on a Studer A807.

Must sleep now
 
Nice stuff JP! It kinda reminds of Message From the Country-era Move. The MSR-24 sounds great. One of my fav 90s LPs, Imperial FFRR, was recorded on one of those. Did you see that Wharton Tiers Tape Op interview where he alluded to preferring the MSR-24 to the Studer a80 at Sonic Youth's studio?
Donny/Lonewhitefly's Magic Hero vs Rock People is still in heavy rotation at our place. I'd highly recommend his stuff for fans of Something Else/Village Green-era Kinks and Arthur Lee's Love. Great to hear there's a new album in the works!
Here's my band's newest: https://soundcloud.com/fixturerecords/freelove-fenner-all-things
Recorded to an Otari MX70 1" 8-track and mixed to 1/4" on a MX5050BII. Q456 tape for both tracking and mixdown. Might be wearing our dB's Stands For DeciBels influence on our sleeves a bit here.
 
ethyrvalve said:
Nice stuff JP! It kinda reminds of Message From the Country-era Move. The MSR-24 sounds great. One of my fav 90s LPs, Imperial FFRR, was recorded on one of those. Did you see that Wharton Tiers Tape Op interview where he alluded to preferring the MSR-24 to the Studer a80 at Sonic Youth's studio?
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Thanks. I didn't know that, no. Originally I was looking for an MS-16 or similar, but the MSR-24 was more plentiful on ebay. Sometimes I wonder about a small 2" machine, but I don't have room for both and it would be a pain to convert formats...

Here's my band's newest: https://soundcloud.com/fixturerecords/freelove-fenner-all-things
Recorded to an Otari MX70 1" 8-track and mixed to 1/4" on a MX5050BII. Q456 tape for both tracking and mixdown. Might be wearing our dB's Stands For DeciBels influence on our sleeves a bit here.
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Cool. I actually pre-ordered this a day or so ago after getting an email from your label...
 
Thanks so much JP!
I was reading up a little bit more on the MSR-24. I didn't realize it could do 7.5ips (with respectable specs too). I love using the In My Life/Rubber Bullets (10CC) trick of recording overdubs at 1/2 speed. I wish the MS16 did 7.5ips (though I very much appreciate its varispeed LED readout--something my Otari MX70 doesn't have).
 
ethyrvalve said:
Thanks so much JP!
I was reading up a little bit more on the MSR-24. I didn't realize it could do 7.5ips (with respectable specs too). I love using the In My Life/Rubber Bullets (10CC) trick of recording overdubs at 1/2 speed. I wish the MS16 did 7.5ips (though I very much appreciate its varispeed LED readout--something my Otari MX70 doesn't have).
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Sadly, most of my stuff is MIDI-controlled and the timecode reader doesn't like it if the timecode is played back at half speed. However, 7.5 paired with the auto-punchin feature does come in very, very handy for editing things out precisely, e.g. a thump or something just before the vocals start.
 
Here's a quick recording using the MSR16 I bought a few weeks ago.
Used about 8 tracks, using an old reel of AGFA PEM468 I have hanging around.
Other than the mixdown to an Edirol R1 WAV/MP3 recorder, everthing else was analogue (well apart from sounds coming from the Roland FANTOM G)....next time I'll record everything, except electric piano which I haven't got!

It's an homage to Noel Harrison who died this week (although I've emulated the Sting version as the chords seemed a little bit more interesting).

altruistica

Al
 
ethyrvalve said:
Nice stuff JP! It kinda reminds of Message From the Country-era Move. The MSR-24 sounds great. One of my fav 90s LPs, Imperial FFRR, was recorded on one of those. Did you see that Wharton Tiers Tape Op interview where he alluded to preferring the MSR-24 to the Studer a80 at Sonic Youth's studio?
Donny/Lonewhitefly's Magic Hero vs Rock People is still in heavy rotation at our place. I'd highly recommend his stuff for fans of Something Else/Village Green-era Kinks and Arthur Lee's Love. Great to hear there's a new album in the works!
Here's my band's newest: https://soundcloud.com/fixturerecords/freelove-fenner-all-things
Recorded to an Otari MX70 1" 8-track and mixed to 1/4" on a MX5050BII. Q456 tape for both tracking and mixdown. Might be wearing our dB's Stands For DeciBels influence on our sleeves a bit here.
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thanks for the plug ... new Freelove Fenner sounds outstanding. I'm contemplating doing the next LP vinyl-only.
 
jpmorris said:
Last I saw those things were almost as rare as the real thing. Good score!


I don't usually do covers, but there was this old game I was playing recently, which had a score by Rob Hubbard. And while I was playing it, I got this crazy idea to do my own version, trying to stay faithful to the original while expanding it to use more than the 3 channels which the SID chip had. I stuck to instruments that would have been available around 1986, when the game was released.

There are things which could have been done better, but overall I am rather pleased with how it turned out.



Tracking was done to the MSR-24, mixing to the A807. I was tempted to play bass but I felt it sounded good enough without, and arguably truer to the original.
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Hey JP, that's some keyboard playing there!
I think I'm a little older than you (50) so missed the 'video game revolution' .....I was too busy messing about with 4-tracks and trying to achieve some kind of success within the music biz. I'm just trying to clear some room in my studio (which is home to all the PA and live gear) so I can setup the real drum kit I've got. I bought one of the first V-Drums when they came out, but I've boxed it up and if I get a decent price for it on Ebay it'll be going. I'm really interested to record old school and make the performance no.1 priority, followed by the sound.
Al
 
altruistica said:
Hey JP, that's some keyboard playing there!
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Heh, I wish. Sadly it's all computer-sequenced. I was never able to translate my dexterity with a computer keyboard into playing a musical one and for this reason I always think of myself as more of a composer than a performer. In this case it was more of an arranger because it was someone else's song. Thanks, though.
I bought one of the first V-Drums when they came out, but I've boxed it up and if I get a decent price for it on Ebay it'll be going. I'm really interested to record old school and make the performance no.1 priority, followed by the sound.
Al
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I don't really have space even for a V-drum set but it is something I have been contemplating.
 
I saw your clip on Ebay with the sync (and a few others I think)....quite awhile ago now....you room looked kind of rectangular? The MSR24 looks good.....so does the mastering machine. I don't know if I see the point of an analogue mastering machine though, because at some point the final mix will have to be digitised, unless it was going to be released on cassette or vinyl? But, I haven't worked with a 1/4" machine since the late 80's/early 90's when I ran a small pre-production studio in a large London advertising agency. That was a long time ago .......
 
altruistica said:
I saw your clip on Ebay with the sync (and a few others I think)....quite awhile ago now....you room looked kind of rectangular? The MSR24 looks good.....so does the mastering machine. I don't know if I see the point of an analogue mastering machine though, because at some point the final mix will have to be digitised, unless it was going to be released on cassette or vinyl? But, I haven't worked with a 1/4" machine since the late 80's/early 90's when I ran a small pre-production studio in a large London advertising agency. That was a long time ago .......
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There's a bunch of reasons for it. For one, I wanted to have a similar workflow to how records were made traditionally. Secondly, the masters look better on the shelf. Thirdly, I have never been able to get a reliable setup for digitizing things. If the soundcard or OS goes blip in the middle of digitizing the tape, you can rewind and do it again. If it goes blip in the middle of the mix, you have to do the whole mix again, and if you didn't notice until a few days later that could really mess up your day. Also it means that you can re-digitize it if standards change.

But it's mostly because I prefer to do it that way.
 
jpmorris said:
There's a bunch of reasons for it. For one, I wanted to have a similar workflow to how records were made traditionally.
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I'm a big believer in this one too. A while back I came across the writings of a Dutch computer scientist named Edsger W. Dijkstra; something he wrote that I thought was striking (tho in a very different context) was: "The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities."
I don't think the trad workflow is necessary better or for everyone but I always tell everyone who asks 'why bother?' that it comes down to two words: different results.

On a different note:
Do any of you guys make analog videos to go along with the tunes? We recently got into Super 8 (luckily there's still an affordable lab in Canada) and we've really been finding it fun. Also, I find the discipline kinda similar to recording on tape. This is our first attempt at a vid:
 
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