question about track bouncing on tape

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Hi all - I've resolved this one fortunately. I'm now very happily using a Tascam 488, which is plenty of tracks for what I'm doing. I still am doing a wee bit of tweaking to the final stereo mix once I get it to the DAW but I think I can live with that - I mainly didn't want the puter involved in tracking/mixing.

I like the idea of doing no tweaking at all in the DAW but I haven't managed that yet - mainly because I have yet to find a hardware reverb I like as well as my old Timeworks 4080l plugin and I have yet to find a hardware compressor I like as well as the Waves RenComp.

Fucking LOVING cassette recording btw. With the dbx on there is no tape hiss at all and the sound is fantastic - especially now that I have some outboard preamps and am not dependent solely on the 488's preamps (which aren't awful, but aren't amazing either).

I am one happy recorder now. It's SOOOO fucking great using moving parts again. It makes me smile every time I sit down to mix or record. Thanks again for everyone's help in me getting this sorted out! Appreciate y'all.
 
Scott Baxendale said:
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Not only did he not mix or master on Cassette - but He dropped the Casette into some really powerful tools - then mixed it with some Powerfull Tools - then he let Bob Ludwig master it in his magical Kingdom - it bears no resemble to a cassette recording at this point.
 
Papanate said:
Not only did he not mix or master on Cassette - but He dropped the Casette into some really powerful tools - then mixed it with some Powerfull Tools - then he let Bob Ludwig master it in his magical Kingdom - it bears no resemble to a cassette recording at this point.
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I always thought that was the case too, but I’ve since heard that it’s just the cassette tape and it was all done in the machine. I’m not sure which is true?…,but it’s probably somewhere in between.
 
I love Nebraska but I always thought it was an odd one to point to in order to affirm the status of the Portastudio. Bruce's original tracks sound like exactly what they were: home recordings, which totally worked for those tunes (after a good bit of mixing and mastering).

But I've heard many other portastudio recordings that stood on their own as good quality recordings, including several by members here.
 
Here is an example of one of my early 4trk recordings. This was on a TEAC 3340S reel to reel, mixed to a cassette deck.
I didn’t have a mixer so I plugged the mics directly into the tape deck. For mixdown I had the little switch box that had 4 into 2 with (4) 3 position switches that gave you L, R, or Center for mixdown.

On this track we improvised 2 tracks then came back and improvised 2 more tracks over the first two.


 
Scott Baxendale said:
I always thought that was the case too, but I’ve since heard that it’s just the cassette tape and it was all done in the machine. I’m not sure which is true?…,but it’s probably somewhere in between.
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Here's a story about it from the Tascam site as told by Bruce's Engineer. I always come back to it from time to time and you reminded me of it: https://tascam.jp/int/support/news/481
 
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