tape effects

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what are you guys doing as far as tape effects? flanging? pre-delay? delay? ping-pong? looping? splicing? I want to hear it!
 
The Record and Playback effect.

..................... :eek: ;)
 
FALKEN said:
what are you guys doing as far as tape effects? flanging? pre-delay? delay? ping-pong? looping? splicing? I want to hear it!
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I've been meaning to do some serious tape-cutting for a while now... currently the only time I've done it as a special effect is for continuity in a 'radio series' type thing I've been working on.

I think I've done most of them now: loops (also backwards loops), reverse reverb (need to do that again, it's been a while), flanging, backwards tape, echo, using the cue lever while it's running to halt the tape, cue-winding (on the radio project again) and slowing down to zero (although this works best on the dedicated echoplexor with it's motor cutout switch)

I'll have to post up some example at some point :D
 
Oh, this one's an effect that's difficult to do with digital.


The voice is slowed down by virtue of the fact that the machine was running 12% faster when it was recorded. AFAIK with most digital recording systems the sample rate can't be varied during recording.
 
jpmorris said:
Oh, this one's an effect that's difficult to do with digital.


The voice is slowed down by virtue of the fact that the machine was running 12% faster when it was recorded. AFAIK with most digital recording systems the sample rate can't be varied during recording.
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That was highly disturbing jp. Sounded kind of like "Flash Gordon gone satanic"
 
famous beagle said:
That was highly disturbing jp. Sounded kind of like "Flash Gordon gone satanic"
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The full version is here:

I can't now remember if the echo was done digitally or with the tape echo - quite likely both (tape slapback into a digital delay for the long echo). When I rerecord the last verse I'm going to have to figure out what I did somehow.
Please excuse the peculiar lyrical content, I get most of my inspiration from webcomics.

Anyway, here are a few examples of tape effects I've done:

This was my first successful attempt at flanging:


This one has genuine backwards-tape reverse reverb on one of the verses, and tape manipulation at the end (prodding the reels on a UHER 4000L):

...originally I wanted to do the gibberish at the end by tape splicing but I couldn't get the stuff to do it in time so it was done through software (a program I wrote for my brother when he was into noise-rock). Sadly the backwards fragments and stuff were done with goldwave, for the same reason.

This one uses the echoplexor motor-cut switch at the end of the song:


Here's a clip from one of my more recent songs. The clock is a tape loop. The sounds at the end were junk that ended up on the multitrack but I thought was cool so I dumped it to 1/4", spliced the bits into what I thought was the best order and put it back on the master tape at the end of the song. Some of the 'junk' is me messing around with the edit mode on the Revox and another tape loop which I didn't actually use in the end. The echo is tape echo.


(This was accidentally done as a 32khz mp3)

Here's a clip from the Radio Project, featuring misuse of the edit mode lever and some trick tape splicing at the end:

(This was also accidentally done as a 32khz mp3)
 
I'm just getting back in to tape effects, mainly delay

used to get some interesting things going on with a teac 3400 4 track reel to reel & a sony 377

some of the best effects I ever had was using the 377 over a strange synth sound & running the recorded delay track in reverse

I'm just looking at using an old ferograph mono valve reel machine for delay etc etc
 
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