Tape Machines - beginner recommendations

TROY · Post by **TROY** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:23 pm

Hi all
im interested in getting a tape to tape machine something similar to studer a80 etc but as im a tape beginner im sure i dont need to get somehting that high end. Im into people like r babicz and they all swear by running audio through tape to get lovely saturation

i fancy trying this method without majorly breaking the bank

can any body recoemmend any sensible starter friendly second hand units

troy

orgul · Post by **orgul** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:46 pm

did you see the youtube vid shot in his studio? i think there is more to his sound then the tape machine. to put it short I think a budget tapemachine will not give your music that "warm sound" or that "big bottom"...
the best thing a cheap reel to reel will give you is some dirt and maybee some sound manipulation methods....

slatepipe · Post by **slatepipe** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:08 pm

i use this quite a lot, i love it :

http://www.interruptor.ch/vst_overview.shtml

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:20 pm

www.tapeop.com

the best resource for this.

i had a Tascam TSR-8. it was decent, not too expensive, but there are better options.

TROY · Post by **TROY** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:29 pm

Yeah i have seen that video, im just after trying out tape methods i like the idea of runing stuff through on tape

any suggestions any body for about 300-400 £

cheers

thr33m · Post by **thr33m** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:21 pm

slatepipe wrote:i use this quite a lot, i love it :

http://www.interruptor.ch/vst_overview.shtml

Anything like that for mac?

TROY · Post by **TROY** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:00 pm

yeah im after an osx version

orgul · Post by **orgul** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:54 pm

anybody in here using tape? after listening to dimlites new project:

http://www.myspace.com/miselquitno

i also gott kind of intrigued about reel to reels as a sound manipulation method....

iivanov · Post by **iivanov** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:32 pm

I am thinking about getting a 4 track casette tape recorder like a portastudio. is there any possibility of tape manipulation with these things? I don't really want a reel to reel because I don't want to spend the money and hear they need a massive amount of maintenance.

slatepipe · Post by **slatepipe** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:30 pm

me and my friend made this whole album by first improvising and recording onto a little tascam portastudio 4 track, then we fed each separate track into ableton and mixed it all out from there

http://www.slatepipe.co.uk/pages/remix.html

its the third party one

tape was what i started making tunes with first and i still love it.

tape has been used to make some astounding music over the years.....steve reich's 'come out to show them' is one of my favourites

iivanov · Post by **iivanov** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:11 am

slatepipe wrote:me and my friend made this whole album by first improvising and recording onto a little tascam portastudio 4 track, then we fed each separate track into ableton and mixed it all out from there

http://www.slatepipe.co.uk/pages/remix.html

its the third party one

tape was what i started making tunes with first and i still love it.

tape has been used to make some astounding music over the years.....steve reich's 'come out to show them' is one of my favourites

I REALLY LIKE YOUR MUSIC

slatepipe · Post by **slatepipe** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:33 am

many thanks for the compliment

iivanov wrote:I am thinking about getting a 4 track casette tape recorder like a portastudio. is there any possibility of tape manipulation with these things? I don't really want a reel to reel because I don't want to spend the money and hear they need a massive amount of maintenance.

ebay is your friend for reel to reels, portastudios and other such tape stuff. in the last year i have bought a tascam portasound and a yamaha mt50 4 track and a beautiful small sanyo reel to reel which takes 3 inch tapes. they all cost about 30 £ each and all work really well.

i also use a couple of mini and micro cassette dictation machines, though my favourite is a sony tcm 20dv which uses normal size tapes. it has a speed control pitch wheel and 2 speed record and playback so it is great for on the fly tape manipulations.