old music equipment
it's sometimes hard to get over folks' attachment to their favourite 1959 Fender Strat, or their Marshall valve head from 1972 but that's musicians. I even saw a dude gigging in Exeter with a cassette tape delay machine, literally running an endless loop of 6-inch long magnetic tape- he'd have to take apart a cassette and splice a length with scotch tape if it ever snarled up.... but some people insist.

I'm sure there are still a large number of Alesis and Tascam 4-tracks in operation in bedrooms and cellars up and down the land, although mainly by people who say 'it's a shit business, innit' and who used to be in creme Brulee....

Slash's latest album was recorded , mixed and mastered purely on magnetic tape transport and some vintage 1970s mixing desks with quadrant faders. Sounds fine!
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:46, 6 replies)

you mean the
WEM Copicat.

It's a classic. 1/4" tape not cassette tape. some people will pay big bucks for them, especially the old vacuum tube (valve) versions for the retro sound.
(f_rev, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:54, closed)

I bow down to your knowledge
how many tracks do you usually get on a 1/4 inch then? 8?
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:57, closed)

yeah
8 usually is the maximum. for pro studio, 2" tapes were used for 24" tracks, with machines slaved together for 48 tracks.
(f_rev, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:27, closed)

you are clive from creme brûlée
aicmfp
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:56, closed)

You can't get the same effect from digital effects units
If you want something that sounds like tape echo, you have to use a tape echo. Anyone who says otherwise probably drinks alcohol-free lager and says it tastes just as good.
(gordonjcp, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:18, closed)

My Tascam 4 track...
...is out there somewhere, I think a light fingered drummer may have yoinked it. Got a 464 Portastudio now, cannot for the life of me work it out, only instructions I could find on the net were in Japanese.

And it is a shit business, innit.
(Gertcha_cowson NAH MATE, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 12:49, closed)