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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

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....

i use this quite a lot, i love it :

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

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.

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

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

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

Anything like that for mac?

yeah im after an osx version

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....

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.

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

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

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.