Tascam Magic or VU Madness?

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Which is it?!?!

  • Tascam Magic

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jgharding

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Hi all,

I got an old Tascam 122 MKII tape deck for nothing (along with a Dolby 363, but that's another story :)) and tested it. The transport is pretty bust up and iit squeels like a pig. So i was going to dump it.

Then i decided to take a song i'd mastered, run it out of the FW1814 into the Tascam and back in. I ran the levels just under overload, and used monitor source, and i recorded it back in.

It does make things nicer, waveform wise you gain a lot more movement, but what i noticed mainly was a less wide stereo field, with a more solid focus in the middle, and a reduction of brittle highs.

Acoustic guitar notes had a little more weight to them. What is doing this? Is it the act of running throught the gain stage in the tascam? I assumed this would happen (hence trying it out) but i was surprised by the 'mono effect'

any insights? do you want some comparison clips?

Jules

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OK so i was being a bit silly, but seriously, can this have an effect? I've heard of this before in mastering chains: running through an old bit of gear in bypass to have a positive effect on sound. Does anyone have an opinion on whether this really works and some good examples?
 
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