Thin is, I also have Waves Kramer tape pluin and I'm not sure whether that is authentic enouh to et me the same results and whether I will just be disappointed.
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I am aware of the restricted frequency range and it is welcomed, in fact, the 4 track machine I looked at recently on EBay ( I don't even need a 4 track, a single track would suffice ) specified a 40hz to 12.5khz frequency range - although I didn't quite understand this as I thought it would be the recording medium and tape type rather than the machine itself which dictated the bandwidth.....4am wrote:My personal tries with tapes were not successful, the result was not worth the hassle, and although the signal was compressed, there was a lack on certain frequencies.
I got much better results with saturation plugins (e.g. the one in Ableton) and loading samples into devices that have a typical 12bit compression like old EMUs.
If you really want to try, then I would suggest trying with a Revox... (Don't know if it is worth the investment).
Hey man, how's it going?oblioblioblio wrote:Tape is interesting. I read somewhere that if tape was deconstructed and compared to digital techniques, it would have a near infinite sample rate, and the sampling clock frequency would have a gaussian distribution (i.e. white noise), because the magnetization is stored by billions of atoms. CDs are 44k samples per second, and the sample time is fixed.
Recording individual elements to tape you could get away with cassette, for a master mix I think you would be better off with a proper 1/4". You can get good deals on them (£500 for a VGC Otari MX5050), but it's a whole world and good tape is £70 a reel new.
I suppose it depends on your personal circumstances, but personally, having done all cassette recording for a few years, I would probably go with digital recording and spend the money instead on good sound sources.
Ekoplekz is all 4 track recorded, and gives a good idea of the cassette sound. Personally, I think they sound terrible when overloaded into clipping, but when driven softly tape certainly does have a certain magic to it, if you don't mind the noise floor (cassette), or can afford the time and maintainence (reel2reel).
One definite positive about tape is that is you are recording onto it you can't just fck around, you know you have to play like you mean it or don't record at all.