Hey, sorry for the slow reply.TrippyTrinity wrote:No problem. But, may I ask, why go from an analog recording device and then dumping it onto digital platform. Also, how do you do it?Pantheon wrote:I used an Akai4000D reel-to-reel player. The trick is to play back the recordings with your finger lightly touching the reel to get some great flutter. All the other sounds were made with Ableton Live 8, and no other plugins.TrippyTrinity wrote:
Excellent job!!! What did you use to record this?
Thanks for the comments both of you
Great work once agin!!
I ushaly sketch out the tune roughly how i want it to sound in Ableton, using only the "Analogue" synth. I keep them fairly clean, and i dont use many effects. I then take each track and indevidualy record them onto tape and then record them back into ableton.
This process adds loads of warmth to the sound. The reason i record all of the track sepouratly, is becasue old recordings were oftain multi-tracked over sevoural tapes and so syncing them together oftain contained small error. My process replicates this to some degree. It also means that because im not synthisizing anymore I have way more CPU to use up for other effects. Also adding effects after this process always sounds (to me) much nicer than if you add them before hand.
Also the tape effect sounds much nicer when used on tracks, individualy, rather than applying it as a final stage, before mastering. It also gives me more flexibility to edit, each track and master them sepourately for a cleaner and more ballenced final mix.
I have a soundcard with 10 inputs and 10 outs, so i just have this hooked up to my Reel-to-reel player, and route a channel into the recorder one track at a time.
I find that kick drums and other percusive sound dont transfer to tape to well, so i will oftain only play them threw the preamps of the recorder and not onto the tape itself.
hahaha.
