recording for vinyl

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Hey Guys,
This summer I build a little studio, and it's going very well. I record on cassettes with the Tascam 688 as some of you know and some guys/bands that want to record with me in the future are planning on relasing stuff on vinyl. I know there's some do's and don't for the mixing aspect, but to be sure I would like your input! What about panning, eq'ing etc etc. I will not be mastering myself btw. I heard it's a lot different then recording/mixing for a release on cd.

I don't think cassette is hi-fi enough to cause any problems when transferred to cd (or tape) and then to vinyl, but maybe I'm wrong...??
 
If your not doing the mastering there really isn’t any difference at the tracking stage. They will tweak things at the Vinyl stage, such as rolling off highs at 18 kHz and lows below 50 Hz or so.

Other than that of course with any format you should keep high-energy low frequencies, like kick and bass at or near the center. Same goes of a growling low frequency synth patch… you don’t want to hard pan something like that.

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I am recording an album for vinyl and I was planning on panning the guitar and bass hard left/ hard right. I know this is supposed to be a problem on vinyl, but (on CD, at least) Hendrix did it, and the Ramones did it, so there has to be a way, right??
 
FALKEN said:
I am recording an album for vinyl and I was planning on panning the guitar and bass hard left/ hard right. I know this is supposed to be a problem on vinyl, but (on CD, at least) Hendrix did it, and the Ramones did it, so there has to be a way, right??
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Not that I know of without destroying the lacquer master. I can't imagine hard panning bass without something in the same range balancing out the other side.

The general rule is if it's fatiguing or unpleasant to the listener it's bad for vinyl. That makes it easy… mix for the comfort of the listener and your lacquer will survive it.

Putting bass on one side doesn’t make much sense because humans have trouble localizing low frequencies.
 
alrighty right, thanks guys...that's should go just fine then...(i always mix for comfort...southern comfort);)
 
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