Cassette 2d music

Started to experiment a bit with four track recorders. Here's my two first tracks using it:

 

https://soundcloud.com/big-end/aerob-joel-25d

https://soundcloud.com/big-end/aerob-joel-concert-band

sounding good, how do you sync yer tracks to the 4-track?

First one really starts to kick off about 1:20. Really digging the atmosphere/vibe. Very nice.

 

Second one has a similar sort of really nice ethereal vibe. Really quite nice! *follows*

  On 2/12/2015 at 2:58 PM, Phaser said:

sounding good, how do you sync yer tracks to the 4-track?

 

Thanks! Easy; I dont :) Pretty much all my tracks are made in realtime.

  On 2/12/2015 at 3:47 PM, Bitraete said:

First one really starts to kick off about 1:20. Really digging the atmosphere/vibe. Very nice.

 

Second one has a similar sort of really nice ethereal vibe. Really quite nice! *follows*

 

Thanks very much! Got a few more coming. Will check out your stuff as well!

That second one sound nice and gritty. tape saturation is truly a beautiful thing. What 4 track are you using?

wow i really fucking like this. love those goofy shuffle rhythms and bouncy bass and pounding kick drum. fuq yea

Nice. nice tracks and sound. good modus operandi. maybe you should think about some cassette releases?

Sounds awesome man, as Danny O'F mentioned the grittiness on the second track is lush. Soft yet crunchy, like a perfectly baked brownie.

  On 2/13/2015 at 3:22 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

That second one sound nice and gritty. tape saturation is truly a beautiful thing. What 4 track are you using?

 

Thanks! Yep, I agree. I'm using a Tascam Porta 02. Also just got a new fancy technics cassette deck which I will be trying out soon!

 

  On 2/13/2015 at 7:11 PM, Salvatorin said:

wow i really fucking like this. love those goofy shuffle rhythms and bouncy bass and pounding kick drum. fuq yea

 

 

  On 2/13/2015 at 10:53 PM, quire said:

Nice. nice tracks and sound. good modus operandi. maybe you should think about some cassette releases?

 

Thanks very much. Yes that's a good idea. We'll se where these tracks end up. Have a few more laying around now also :)

 

  On 2/14/2015 at 1:53 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

Sounds awesome man, as Danny O'F mentioned the grittiness on the second track is lush. Soft yet crunchy, like a perfectly baked brownie.

 

Thanks, great comparison haha!

Good stuff. Nice vibes. A bit of a Kassem Mosse feel.

 

A bit too much distortion for my taste. I'd like to hear some more high-end definition coming through, but that's just me.

 

Cheers,

-William Fields

Tape gives such a nice compression

  On 2/12/2015 at 2:58 PM, Phaser said:

sounding good, how do you sync yer tracks to the 4-track?

you can use MMC (MIDI Machine Control) for tape multitracks that support it, basically you can use one of the tape tracks to record a sync signal first, then you can sync your DAW etc to that via a MIDI cable. also you can use some drum machines (TR-626 can do it) to send a Tape Sync signal to multitracks without MMC. you sync the 626 to MIDI from whatever and plug the Tape Sync out from that into the multitrack...again, it uses one of the tape tracks to record a sync signal first.

i like the 2nd track. nice good job etc..

Thanks all of you!

 

I'm currently in the mixing stage of 4 new tracks in a similar style for an EP release. Maybe cassette in the future :)

Yeah, this is great :) Need to get mire portastudio fired up again

  On 2/19/2015 at 1:20 PM, sinewaves said:

Thanks all of you!

 

I'm currently in the mixing stage of 4 new tracks in a similar style for an EP release. Maybe cassette in the future :)

YEE, keep us posted

Edited February 20, 2015 by Danny O Flannagin

Just uploaded this one, which was made shortly after the first tracks.

 

https://soundcloud.com/big-end/aerob-joel