I had a Vestafire MR-10 40 mumble years ago and I loved it for it's immediacy. Hit record there's your sketch. I had a Korg KMS-30 that would let you make a sync track then all your drum machines and sequencers were in time. Gone the way of all flesh and cassette tapes now. Back that stuff digitally, cassette tapes degrade very quickley. @@bucksmoonlightrevival
As a "young" person (28) i always love working backwards in gear because it makes me appreciative ov all that has come before me and it expands how i think
Well done! The younger generation often underestimates the fact that using old equipment like this gets your creativity flowing in a totally different way than recording it all straight into a DAW right from the start. The second-hand market is full of beautiful treasures like this one. This applies also to vintage (mostly low-budget) organs/keyboards/synthesizers/workstations/samplers/drum machines or effect units.
Not all of us lol, I’m 20 and I find the limitless possibilities of a daw kills my creativity where as the limitations of analog make me more creative ❤
Outstanding work you guys. I'm a GenXer born in 1975 so when I started to learn recording and wanted to make demos cassette multitracks were the only choice unless you had $1000's to blow on reel to reel tape machines and a mixer. I had a Tascam 424 four track first but soon got a 488mkII, the updated version of the unit you used. I moved on to Alesis ADATs and then DAW's but now I'm using iOS music production apps exclusively in my home studio. The hands on touch interface reminds me of the old PortaStudio's; I had so much fun using those machines, glad to see you guys making such beautiful music with them...
hey thanks for listening! vintage equipment gives me a big creativity boost I find. Messing around with a Fostex reel to reel currently for our next album
@@bucksmoonlightrevival Absolutely. There’s something about having to make a decision that’s so much different than today’s no limit undo’s and graphical editing. When doing bounces/sub mixes to make more room for more overdubs you have to make sure the sounds & mix is the way you want them, there’s no going back and changing them. The restrictions help boost creativity. I subbed and look forward to more music from you guys, all the best!
@bucksmoonlightrevival yeah, I thought the exact same thing. Did you master in a DAW, or mix and master? The sound is so clear and beautiful that I thought that's what you might have done.... cheers, and FANTASTIC album.
I gace the whole album a good mix in the daw. just EQ, panning and a bit of de-ess. Honestly this recorder just sounds pretty good right off the tape. Double speed recording on Type 2 tapes makes a big difference
I imagine this was digitally mastered? It’s beautiful music and a touching tribute to your grandfather. I bought your record and I did not use your discount code :P Thank you. TH-cam needs more meaningful content like this.
hey thanks :) gald you like it! Yes it was all digitized onto our computer and the final mix/master was done there. all effects were done during the unedited performance though. I wanted the sound to not be changed too much after digitizing. Just removing bad frequencies, etc
I was mesmerized by your music. It's absolutely superb. Incredibly full sound from the 488 and it just goes to show that, far from being a hindrance, the limitations of the technology being used can be inspiring.
@@bucksmoonlightrevival Calling it "lofi tech" in this context feels a little bit like missing the point of what you're doing with it. You've recorded something to be true to the medium itself, which is different from recording something to be true to the source material. So in this case it's actually very high fidelity, because you can't get closer to tape style fidelity than using actual tape. :) Edit: Just to be clear, I 100% understand that cassette is a lofi medium. I'm not saying this to point out something wrong, I just find it interesting to look at it from a different angle.
We used it a lot back in the days. A lot means hundreds of songs. Needs planning and documentation, which nowadays is lacking a lot when going into the recording studio. Some of the greatest songs still being played today were made on 4 tracks and not even 8 like the portastudio. Love the way it has been produced 🙂
Lovely work. Still have my Tascam 424 MK II and use it for various things. Like many older musicians, it's how I started out. Abandoning perfection can really allow our humanity to shine.
It's like beautiful and eerie whisp breaths. Really feels like I'm hearing the sound of someone's life. This has provided me with a lot of inspiration for a few projects I'm planning out. Thank you for the music, and I admire your commitment and creativity.
as audio engineer i think after a very long time i watched true art of making album and its been lost in this digital era and the album sound so amazing ....man tascam sound amazing
Glad you enjoyed it :) Thanks for watching! Pitch control is amazing lol certain tracks were recorded with pitch control all the way up, and the I'd bring it back to 12 oclock when doing the final mix
What an amazing album! Great work! Especially the ambient parts, love it! I wish more artists would look at their music from a full album's perspective like the records back from the 70s. As tracks flow in a unified manner, it becomes about the experience as a whole, not just random tracks put together. Keep up the great work!
Stunning work. I haven't heard a more haunting or interesting album in a very long time. Reminds me of why I love music, play music, and enjoy recording so much. I wish you all continued creative and personal success. Fantastic work.
I believe that all the tools that we have nowadays are a hindrance to doing good recordings, and to inspire the musicians who really have talent. I am glad you’re proving that, by using all technology, we can still do music that is worth listening. After all, today’s producers, spend more time, correcting mistakes than being thorough and expressive in their recording.
I love these lyrics! They remind me of the feelings I experienced as a boy when we lived in the country. I was free to spend my summer days wandering in the woods and inventing my own pastimes.
This is an awesome project with an amazing outcome…… I love the quality from the tape, it just adds something…. You guys are great artists and performers, order placed !
Just rebuilt my 144. Looking forward to incorporating it in my music some how. Back in the late 80's we would record the three of us in one take on 2 tracks then overdub on the remaining 2 tracks. Came up with some interesting stuff. Great Tunes! Great video!
Wow! Absolutely amazing! This is a testament as to how good these cassette tapes can sound. Also great how you got the video to sync so well with the final mix. This can be a challenge with free running tape not locked to any time code. Great work!
Excellent, I've been eagerly awaiting this coming out! Yall' did damn fine! There's nothing like working/playing with an old analog console! It's the feel they have, both literal and figurative, along with the inherent limitations which, in my opinion, helps bring out the artistry of audio engineering more so than an ambiguously hyper-capable DAW.
I love this workflow. I make cassette loops on a four track but it is so inspiring to see a full album made so well and all on tape, especially in the days of streaming music dominance. Everyone I knew in the 90s made albums on portastudios but this is so well produced and the vibe is ethereal. Y’all are amazingly talented. Thanks for the videos and music!
I use Tascam DP24SD for recording, mixing & mastering.. I use DAW only record stereo & digital mastering to render WAV or MP3 or m4a or flac to upload to DSP..
After trying to record a song on a Fostex X-15 and finding 4 tracks to be too limiting for the ideas that I had, I decided to go for an 8-track. A guy in an instrument shop told me not to buy a cassette 8-track, but I ignored him and bought the Tascam 488. I used it for 17 years, recorded 31 albums on it, and although I moved to a DAW eventually, learned most of what I know about recording on my 488. I did eventually sell it and aside from the fact that I loved it {in the end it became too limiting as my ideas expanded}, the greatest compliment I could pay it is this; the DAW I bought {an Akai DPS12i} is a standalone that gives me an almost identical workflow to the 488. I looked long and hard to get a digital machine that was virtually a digital version of the 488 but with 12 tracks.
This popped up because I'm trying to fix my Tascam Portastudio 424 mk1, which has been broken for 20 yrs. Great timing, as I love cassette recording, mixing down, bouncing tracks, vs. just straight into a DAW. I recently got an Alesis Quadraverb 2, which means I need a mixer, which means I want to fix it! I also have been wondering how many blank cassettes I have around, becausse I'm pretty sure I'm going to need some. On top of just being a cool & a great project- I'm really liking the album. Great job! I hope you're as proud of it as you ought to be! I am sure Caity's grandfather would be... well done in honoring him.
Great video, and I really love how the music turned out. I’m having trouble understanding the workflow, though. At times there are multiple instances of the tascam playing at the same time with different content on a given track and there’s a separate cassette deck that pops up too. What does this represent? Did you use a separate device or DAW allow you to get more tracks or does this somehow represent bouncing tracks down or something? What did you mix it all down to?
ya so I digitized all the tracks onto our DAW and mixed the whole album from there. I only used one project file so I could easily arrange all the songs and fades. But all of the effects, reverb, etc was done live during recording. I didn't want to change the sound of the tape recordings too much after digitizing, so just panning, levels, EQ, etc. The basics to get it sounding good. And for the complexity of the album's arrangement, using a DAW for this part was ideal. All of the physical mixing you see in this video was done as a reenactment of what was actually done in the final mix.
@ thanks for the reply! I have a possibly-irrational fantasy of doing something similar one day when I have time to do things, lol. I really enjoyed this and it helps a lot to understand how it came together
I had a 488mk1 i brought new in the 90's. Did fair amount of recording with it. Ran at double speed 3-3/4ips so a bit better quality. Got sold after DAW's on the PC came along later. I still had the tapes though, so picked up a none working 238 a few years back, repaired it thinking I'd remix the old recordings. I always wanted the 238 but couldn't afford one back then. It seems i must of recorded over the master tapes though thinking Id never use this format again.... Still got the 238 which i must use for a project some time, i brought up a lot of TDK SA90 tapes when they were still cheap, luckily. There's a Tascam MX-2424 HD recorder here as well, i can't sell it. Amazing bit of old tech though.
My 1996 CD release Whatever was recorded entirely on a Tascam portastudio. It got played all over the country on what was then known as "college radio" lol. It was definitely understood and reviewed as "lo fi," I used an Alesis drum module, I would definitely have taken all the expensive studio time I could have gotten instead, but this was how I could make an album that year... and it worked for what it was. I woudn't want to record a live band with it if i could help it.
Most of all those recorders the four tracks, and definitely the tracks had affect sends 1 and 2 to send to an external effect processor and bring them back in to the return but like the bigger consoles. Great Job.
wow! i’m just about to get my hands on the tascam 488 and a few other bits and bobs including a reel to reel sony 4track. i’d love to have more of an insight of how you utilised this equipment, it’s so brilliant! keep it up :)
hey thanks glad you liked the video :) out of curiousity what specifically are you interested in hearing about? It may help me come up with new ideas for videos
first, great video. Super quality. So it looks like in the beginning you used it a few times for a section. So you'd bound the cassette to whatever, recorded the next part, bounced that, and summed them in the box or something? That's cool cause I'm about to get one of these and that's kind of what I plan on doing for my arrangements that require too many parts.
Ya basically sometimes there were some other drone tracks we wanted to add to a song, such as in "Intro". So we didn't need to do any bouncing, just play some drones in the key of the song. And the I just mixed everything on the computer after digitizing everything. Thanks for watching :)
This sounds fantastic! 👌 I'm settiing up an analog studio in Australia using a yamaha four track for really basic recording, or a Tascam 38 1/2 inch 8 track and yamaha mixing desk with a handful of mics. Your music and recording methods have really inspired me!
You can relate the recording media like the Cassette Porter Studios to the major production studios. Either one can produce a great album. Yeah, there are recordings that are bad, but in just you can have a great book. A great story one is hardbound and the other is a paperback, which one has a better story it’s a packaging
@@bucksmoonlightrevival it certainly is. I always managed to get a great sound quality from it. With the high speed tape speed I was getting just about studio quality with this model. Keep up the great work. Love and light. Paul. 🥰😇
Chances are it’s one of two things: either the belt or the “gear c”. Both are simple (and cheap, about $10 total) to replace yourself. Check out Tetrakan here on TH-cam, he’s got overview, teardown, and repair videos on just about every cassette recorder ever made.
4-track cassettes were a godsend when they appeared in 1980. The Teac 144 I bought sounded good; a bit better than I was expecting. It was damn expensive, though. I had a freakishly big tax refund in 1981, very luckily for me; otherwise there’s no way I could have bought it. Being able to record multiple tracks so our stuff sounded like “real songs” seemed totally wild then. I know I was happy.
Some of the best albums ever recorded were on these machines. 1. John frusciante "Niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt" 2. Ween "The Pod" and "Pure Guava" 3. Blind Melon "Nico"
I love how younger people are rediscovering the equipment that launched a thousand bands.
for sure! One might say it's a "revival" :)
I had a Vestafire MR-10 40 mumble years ago and I loved it for it's immediacy. Hit record there's your sketch. I had a Korg KMS-30 that would let you make a sync track then all your drum machines and sequencers were in time. Gone the way of all flesh and cassette tapes now. Back that stuff digitally, cassette tapes degrade very quickley. @@bucksmoonlightrevival
As a "young" person (28) i always love working backwards in gear because it makes me appreciative ov all that has come before me and it expands how i think
Well done! The younger generation often underestimates the fact that using old equipment like this gets your creativity flowing in a totally different way than recording it all straight into a DAW right from the start. The second-hand market is full of beautiful treasures like this one. This applies also to vintage (mostly low-budget) organs/keyboards/synthesizers/workstations/samplers/drum machines or effect units.
for sure! I will never go back to the DAW personally :)
Not all of us lol, I’m 20 and I find the limitless possibilities of a daw kills my creativity where as the limitations of analog make me more creative ❤
Outstanding work you guys. I'm a GenXer born in 1975 so when I started to learn recording and wanted to make demos cassette multitracks were the only choice unless you had $1000's to blow on reel to reel tape machines and a mixer. I had a Tascam 424 four track first but soon got a 488mkII, the updated version of the unit you used.
I moved on to Alesis ADATs and then DAW's but now I'm using iOS music production apps exclusively in my home studio. The hands on touch interface reminds me of the old PortaStudio's; I had so much fun using those machines, glad to see you guys making such beautiful music with them...
hey thanks for listening! vintage equipment gives me a big creativity boost I find. Messing around with a Fostex reel to reel currently for our next album
@@bucksmoonlightrevival Absolutely. There’s something about having to make a decision that’s so much different than today’s no limit undo’s and graphical editing. When doing bounces/sub mixes to make more room for more overdubs you have to make sure the sounds & mix is the way you want them, there’s no going back and changing them. The restrictions help boost creativity. I subbed and look forward to more music from you guys, all the best!
Does the Tascam MkII have built in effects? Cheers
@@theselector4733 hmmm I don't think so
@@bucksmoonlightrevival How did you add the reverbs on this recording?
That's got to be the best sound I've heard from a cassette recorder! Amazing!
good to hear! Thanks for listening and watching :)
@bucksmoonlightrevival yeah, I thought the exact same thing. Did you master in a DAW, or mix and master? The sound is so clear and beautiful that I thought that's what you might have done.... cheers, and FANTASTIC album.
I gace the whole album a good mix in the daw. just EQ, panning and a bit of de-ess. Honestly this recorder just sounds pretty good right off the tape. Double speed recording on Type 2 tapes makes a big difference
I'm stunned by how few views this video has compared to the quality of it, oh my god, you guys are amazing and incredibly inspiring!
Thank you :) glad you enjoyed it! Our channel's about to get pretty creative so perhaps there'll be more views one day lol
Beautiful! Love the transition from summer to winter, so artistic! Beautiful!
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching :)
I came here to learn more about cassette recording but got moved by your hauntingly beautiful music style
thanks for watching :) glad you like it
Same got so lost in the music. Was just trying to learn about recording haha. Thanks for putting so much soul into this!
Absolutely amazing!!! I love it! ❤
Thanks for watching! We're working on the next one :)
This is awesome work guys, really ambitious and emotive music. Love the cinematography too. Well done!
hey thanks a lot :)
I imagine this was digitally mastered? It’s beautiful music and a touching tribute to your grandfather. I bought your record and I did not use your discount code :P
Thank you. TH-cam needs more meaningful content like this.
hey thanks :) gald you like it! Yes it was all digitized onto our computer and the final mix/master was done there. all effects were done during the unedited performance though. I wanted the sound to not be changed too much after digitizing. Just removing bad frequencies, etc
I was mesmerized by your music. It's absolutely superb. Incredibly full sound from the 488 and it just goes to show that, far from being a hindrance, the limitations of the technology being used can be inspiring.
Hey thanks! Yes I think the lofi tech gives music an interesting, imperfect and more human sound :)
@@bucksmoonlightrevival Calling it "lofi tech" in this context feels a little bit like missing the point of what you're doing with it. You've recorded something to be true to the medium itself, which is different from recording something to be true to the source material. So in this case it's actually very high fidelity, because you can't get closer to tape style fidelity than using actual tape. :)
Edit: Just to be clear, I 100% understand that cassette is a lofi medium. I'm not saying this to point out something wrong, I just find it interesting to look at it from a different angle.
Chanced upon this, and I'm glad I did. I thoroughly everything about this.
Hey thanks for clicking! :)
I’m into this approach to recording
I love this so muc. and I'm glad this mans memoreies are stored into this world. I jammed whille listening to this. music is so powerful
hey thanks for checking it out! :)
the feeling this beautiful music gives me is indescribable. amazing work! please keep going.
Thank you! More music coming :)
I got this video from searching for which multi-track cassette recorder Fuse Audio Labs TCS-68 was emulating.
Now you have a new fan!
lol awesome :) thanks for watching! we've got a new video coming soon about a song recorded on a Tascam MFP01 portastudio
@@bucksmoonlightrevival Neat! Can't wait!
Cool, nice to see real art. Nice to see real artists. I started multitracking 35 years ago. I love this stuff.
Awesome! thanks for your support :)
The lyrics are beautiful. How touching to bring your grandpa's work to life
Thanks for listening! :)
Thanks TH-cam, for recommending this piece of ART!!! It sounds amazing!
hey thanks for clicking on the video! :)
This was beautiful, thank you.
Thank you too! :)
Inspiring - a beautiful analogue to digital auditory experience.
Thanks for listening :)
Amazing work on a 488, the planning is outstanding and the quality incredible.
Thanks for checking it out! :)
We used it a lot back in the days. A lot means hundreds of songs.
Needs planning and documentation, which nowadays is lacking a lot when going into the recording studio.
Some of the greatest songs still being played today were made on 4 tracks and not even 8 like the portastudio.
Love the way it has been produced 🙂
Lovely work. Still have my Tascam 424 MK II and use it for various things. Like many older musicians, it's how I started out. Abandoning perfection can really allow our humanity to shine.
agreed :)
20:09 that dramatic sound effect sounds COOL!
lol thanks :)
Nicely done video! Thanks again for sending me one of your tapes!
Thanks for watching it! Love your videos as well :)
It's like beautiful and eerie whisp breaths. Really feels like I'm hearing the sound of someone's life. This has provided me with a lot of inspiration for a few projects I'm planning out. Thank you for the music, and I admire your commitment and creativity.
Thanks for watching and listening :) Good luck with your projects!
This is pretty sick
as audio engineer i think after a very long time i watched true art of making album and its been lost in this digital era and the album sound so amazing ....man tascam sound amazing
hey thanks a lot :) thanks
monologue / minilogue how sweet the sound. Songs are so beautiful. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for posting. Varied, atmospheric and enjoyable. Back in the day I recorded with 4 track cassette. I loved the pitch control option.
Glad you enjoyed it :) Thanks for watching! Pitch control is amazing lol certain tracks were recorded with pitch control all the way up, and the I'd bring it back to 12 oclock when doing the final mix
What an amazing album! Great work! Especially the ambient parts, love it! I wish more artists would look at their music from a full album's perspective like the records back from the 70s. As tracks flow in a unified manner, it becomes about the experience as a whole, not just random tracks put together. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I agree, I've always preferred a great album over a great single. We're working on the next album right now.. sounding pretty cool
Wow it's realy fantastic sound from these tapes. Great work!
Thanks for listening :)
very nice. tape was the perfect choice for this project. I enjoyed this from start to finish.
Thanks for listening! :)
Stunning work. I haven't heard a more haunting or interesting album in a very long time. Reminds me of why I love music, play music, and enjoy recording so much. I wish you all continued creative and personal success. Fantastic work.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
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Awesome
I think the kind of music you guys are making benefits alot from the analog gear. Love it :)
good to hear :) We wouldn't do it any other way
Brilliant.
I believe that all the tools that we have nowadays are a hindrance to doing good recordings, and to inspire the musicians who really have talent. I am glad you’re proving that, by using all technology, we can still do music that is worth listening.
After all, today’s producers, spend more time, correcting mistakes than being thorough and expressive in their recording.
agreed :) our next album is all done on a recorder even more limiting than this one lol
Great video, beautiful music. I dig the use of one mic and thoughtful creative mixing.
Glad you enjoyed it! More music coming :)
I love these lyrics! They remind me of the feelings I experienced as a boy when we lived in the country. I was free to spend my summer days wandering in the woods and inventing my own pastimes.
Glad you connected with it :) Sounds nice!
This is an awesome project with an amazing outcome…… I love the quality from the tape, it just adds something…. You guys are great artists and performers, order placed !
Thanks so much!
Absolute masterpiece
Glad you liked it! :)
Just rebuilt my 144. Looking forward to incorporating it in my music some how. Back in the late 80's we would record the three of us in one take on 2 tracks then overdub on the remaining 2 tracks. Came up with some interesting stuff. Great Tunes! Great video!
hey thanks! The 144 is a cool deck!
Deserves all the views, and all the listens. Just beautiful - thank you.
Thank you too!
Frikkin well done! My computer died so I pulled out my Olde Tascam 4 try. I forgot how good it sounds. Warm and fuzzy.
thanks for watching :) ya I love these things lol currently recording with a super lofi Tascam MFP01
Beautiful take on cassette player tape recording! Brilliant!
Glad you enjoyed it! :) more music coming
This is incredible. So much attention to detail in every aspect. Thank you for this. It’s so damn inspiring!
Thanks for watching and listening! :)
Thank you for posting this, this was awe inspiring and very helpful
You are so welcome!
Wow! Absolutely amazing! This is a testament as to how good these cassette tapes can sound. Also great how you got the video to sync so well with the final mix. This can be a challenge with free running tape not locked to any time code. Great work!
Glad you enjoyed it! Took a long time to do :)
Art and talent at its best. Love this.
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So inspirational recording! Appreciate using Korg synths tandem)
Love the korgs :) and thanks for checking us out!
Lovely!
Excellent, I've been eagerly awaiting this coming out! Yall' did damn fine!
There's nothing like working/playing with an old analog console! It's the feel they have, both literal and figurative, along with the inherent limitations which, in my opinion, helps bring out the artistry of audio engineering more so than an ambiguously hyper-capable DAW.
yes I agree, thanks for watching 😁
@@bucksmoonlightrevival You're welcome!
I love this workflow. I make cassette loops on a four track but it is so inspiring to see a full album made so well and all on tape, especially in the days of streaming music dominance. Everyone I knew in the 90s made albums on portastudios but this is so well produced and the vibe is ethereal. Y’all are amazingly talented. Thanks for the videos and music!
hey thanks for watching (and listening)!
I just bought a yamaha cmx100 2 multi track recorder can't wait to experiment with it ❤
Have fun! :)
Amazing video and awesome song,.. I love it so much 😃💕
Glad you like it :)
I feelI'm in heaven. thank you. make more.
Such a joy to watch and listen to this work, congratulations!!
thanks for watching 🙂
I use Tascam DP24SD for recording, mixing & mastering..
I use DAW only record stereo & digital mastering to render WAV or MP3 or m4a or flac to upload to DSP..
sometimes minimal feels right :)
Pretty cool. I had a foster 260 4 track cassette recorder back in the day before using computers
awesome! these decks are fun to mess around with :)
This was simply breathtaking
Hey! Glad you liked it :)
After trying to record a song on a Fostex X-15 and finding 4 tracks to be too limiting for the ideas that I had, I decided to go for an 8-track. A guy in an instrument shop told me not to buy a cassette 8-track, but I ignored him and bought the Tascam 488. I used it for 17 years, recorded 31 albums on it, and although I moved to a DAW eventually, learned most of what I know about recording on my 488. I did eventually sell it and aside from the fact that I loved it {in the end it became too limiting as my ideas expanded}, the greatest compliment I could pay it is this; the DAW I bought {an Akai DPS12i} is a standalone that gives me an almost identical workflow to the 488. I looked long and hard to get a digital machine that was virtually a digital version of the 488 but with 12 tracks.
wow that's awesome! 31 albums is alot lol
@@bucksmoonlightrevival
Yeah, I was pretty prolific ! Not all of the songs sound great, but that was down to my inexperience and I like them !
beautiful
Thank you! 😊
I have a mt120 and just bought a M8X ,love tape
love it
sounds great!
great job, on both the video and the performances!
Glad you enjoyed it! thanks for watching :)
This popped up because I'm trying to fix my Tascam Portastudio 424 mk1, which has been broken for 20 yrs. Great timing, as I love cassette recording, mixing down, bouncing tracks, vs. just straight into a DAW. I recently got an Alesis Quadraverb 2, which means I need a mixer, which means I want to fix it! I also have been wondering how many blank cassettes I have around, becausse I'm pretty sure I'm going to need some.
On top of just being a cool & a great project- I'm really liking the album. Great job! I hope you're as proud of it as you ought to be! I am sure Caity's grandfather would be... well done in honoring him.
Hey thanks a lot 😊 good luck with your recorder, if you need a good source for new cassette tapes, check out duplication.ca
beautiful work! I really love the ambient tracks and Plasterer but everything is gold
hey thanks man!
I wish I had one of those Vintage Cassette Machines
This actually is a brilliant artistic endeavour! Sad to see so few likes here :(
hey thanks 🙂 took a long time to make!
@@bucksmoonlightrevival that's why it deserves much more attention! Thank you for your work!
Linda Perhacs vibes... Beautiful!
Thanks for listening :) Caity's a fan of her
Great video, and I really love how the music turned out. I’m having trouble understanding the workflow, though. At times there are multiple instances of the tascam playing at the same time with different content on a given track and there’s a separate cassette deck that pops up too. What does this represent? Did you use a separate device or DAW allow you to get more tracks or does this somehow represent bouncing tracks down or something? What did you mix it all down to?
ya so I digitized all the tracks onto our DAW and mixed the whole album from there. I only used one project file so I could easily arrange all the songs and fades. But all of the effects, reverb, etc was done live during recording. I didn't want to change the sound of the tape recordings too much after digitizing, so just panning, levels, EQ, etc. The basics to get it sounding good. And for the complexity of the album's arrangement, using a DAW for this part was ideal. All of the physical mixing you see in this video was done as a reenactment of what was actually done in the final mix.
@ thanks for the reply! I have a possibly-irrational fantasy of doing something similar one day when I have time to do things, lol. I really enjoyed this and it helps a lot to understand how it came together
thanks :) and you should!
so beautiful
Thanks :)
when i used my 488 back in late 80's early 90's i used drum machines, synths an Atari STFM and Trackman 32 plus layered vocals with yamaha spx 90.
awesome! It's a cool recorder :)
This is unreal, amazing work
Hey thank you :)
Phenomenal. Just phenomenal!
Thanks for watching! :)
Well, as we say here in Sweden - Hatten av!
Truly inspiration work.
Wow, thank you! :)
love it! there is a celtic influence somewhere in there...
interesting! another album coming..
I had a 488mk1 i brought new in the 90's. Did fair amount of recording with it. Ran at double speed 3-3/4ips so a bit better quality. Got sold after DAW's on the PC came along later.
I still had the tapes though, so picked up a none working 238 a few years back, repaired it thinking I'd remix the old recordings. I always wanted the 238 but couldn't afford one back then.
It seems i must of recorded over the master tapes though thinking Id never use this format again....
Still got the 238 which i must use for a project some time, i brought up a lot of TDK SA90 tapes when they were still cheap, luckily.
There's a Tascam MX-2424 HD recorder here as well, i can't sell it. Amazing bit of old tech though.
incredible! cool that all this stuff is now being discovered by another generation today :)
My 1996 CD release Whatever was recorded entirely on a Tascam portastudio. It got played all over the country on what was then known as "college radio" lol. It was definitely understood and reviewed as "lo fi," I used an Alesis drum module, I would definitely have taken all the expensive studio time I could have gotten instead, but this was how I could make an album that year... and it worked for what it was. I woudn't want to record a live band with it if i could help it.
if the music's good, the music's good :)
Tbis is awesome. Could inasl which synths they are? Thanks
Korg Minilogue and Korg Monologue :)
Most of all those recorders the four tracks, and definitely the tracks had affect sends 1 and 2 to send to an external effect processor and bring them back in to the return but like the bigger consoles. Great Job.
First 30 seconds, I already know I’m gonna love this
There are many moments this album sounds heavier and darker than Sunn O))) :) Love it!
hey thanks :) glad you like it
wow! i’m just about to get my hands on the tascam 488 and a few other bits and bobs including a reel to reel sony 4track. i’d love to have more of an insight of how you utilised this equipment, it’s so brilliant! keep it up :)
hey thanks glad you liked the video :) out of curiousity what specifically are you interested in hearing about? It may help me come up with new ideas for videos
first, great video. Super quality. So it looks like in the beginning you used it a few times for a section. So you'd bound the cassette to whatever, recorded the next part, bounced that, and summed them in the box or something? That's cool cause I'm about to get one of these and that's kind of what I plan on doing for my arrangements that require too many parts.
Ya basically sometimes there were some other drone tracks we wanted to add to a song, such as in "Intro". So we didn't need to do any bouncing, just play some drones in the key of the song. And the I just mixed everything on the computer after digitizing everything. Thanks for watching :)
This sounds fantastic! 👌 I'm settiing up an analog studio in Australia using a yamaha four track for really basic recording, or a Tascam 38 1/2 inch 8 track and yamaha mixing desk with a handful of mics. Your music and recording methods have really inspired me!
Go for it! Analog is lots of fun :)
I and my friends made many recordings on an 8 track Tascam in are late teens.
Hope yall are still goin strong
we are :) new song out this Friday www.buckrevival.com
You can relate the recording media like the Cassette Porter Studios to the major production studios. Either one can produce a great album. Yeah, there are recordings that are bad, but in just you can have a great book. A great story one is hardbound and the other is a paperback, which one has a better story it’s a packaging
Honestly was looking at similar recorders before, now I want one again 😭
get one! There lots of fun :)
Very cool. Would love to see you do a similar project on a newer Tascam DP-32.
potentially, but really I enjoy doing this for the tape specifically 🙂 thanks for watching
I still have this model of tascam, but its non functional, but i plan to get it repaired. Great video. ❤
awesome! ya it's a great machine :)
@@bucksmoonlightrevival it certainly is. I always managed to get a great sound quality from it. With the high speed tape speed I was getting just about studio quality with this model. Keep up the great work. Love and light. Paul. 🥰😇
Chances are it’s one of two things: either the belt or the “gear c”. Both are simple (and cheap, about $10 total) to replace yourself. Check out Tetrakan here on TH-cam, he’s got overview, teardown, and repair videos on just about every cassette recorder ever made.
4-track cassettes were a godsend when they appeared in 1980. The Teac 144 I bought sounded good; a bit better than I was expecting. It was damn expensive, though. I had a freakishly big tax refund in 1981, very luckily for me; otherwise there’s no way I could have bought it. Being able to record multiple tracks so our stuff sounded like “real songs” seemed totally wild then. I know I was happy.
for sure! :) if the music is good, the music is good. regardless of what the tech is
Some of the best albums ever recorded were on these machines.
1. John frusciante "Niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt"
2. Ween "The Pod" and "Pure Guava"
3. Blind Melon "Nico"
lovely, dreamy, meditative... I'd love to do an interview over zoom for my channel. Lo fi and home recording is part of my schtick. Fave track: Viejo
for sure! I'll send you an email :)
my whole career is based off making albums using the tascam 424, it most surely can be done.
Tape is a lively format, it never died.
agreed :)