People always talk about how cassette recording is "noisy." However, if you use the noise reduction, it really becomes negligible. Nice song and recording! Glad you're enjoying the world of analog. I've probably owned almost every model of Tascam 4-track at one time or another. There are probably four or five that I never had. Got my first four-track in 1986 (Fostex X-26), and ever since then, no matter what other rig I had, I always have a cassette 4-track around. Just such a fun experience!
Hello friend, that was just beautiful. I have the tascam 488mk1 8 track cassette recorder, and its just awesome. Thanks for sharing your gift with the world. Kind regards. Paul.
oh yeah and the faster the tape runs,the clearer the sound. and also you casn flip the tape to make some backward tracks, and playing with the speed while recording is lots of fun too.
i got my first one of these back in 1999. i loved and love it.ps.get to know the effect lines and use them one tip qwould be to get a good compressor pedal and a good gain pedal and put them in the effect loops 1 and 2 .i will sub to see you evolution .
Love this video and the song! I have the same machine and I’m about to do my first recording on it too! I got a little confused when you were talking about your bass track dropping. Any chance you could give me a brief tape cue explanation? Thanks!
Hey Nate, thanks for stepping by. So whatever you record is controled via mixer with the sliders - you set it to L or R on each channel you want to record, set the input guitar/line and rock 'n' roll. When finished, you set each channel to Safe mode and set the input to Tape. Now where my mistake was made, was that I would keep the mixer sliders up so I could hear other tracks and since the input was put to tape, it would take what's on the tape already and print it on top of it once again. When recording backing vocals I would only punch in from the place where they come in, not the whole track, so somehow, I would get these dips in bass guitar. I may have recorded one of the vox parts with sliders up on a guitar channel, so bass got recorded on tape twice and guitars were fine. With the tape cue, you can monitor what's on the tape without recording anything on top. Just make sure when you record, only the channels you are recording on have sliders up and you should be alright. Hope this makes any sense.
Mostly at2020 and sometimes sm57. And in this video I just used tascam's own pres. I may have recorded the acoustic guitar through a yamaha mixer into the tape machine.
I bought this Portastudio model new in about 2001 or so. Stupidly sold it about 2 years ago. It was in mint condition. Since then I've bought a Tascam 464, Japanese model. I think the 4th channel is dead though. Anyway, wish I never sold the 414. Dumb move. Nice song by the way. Sounds great.
This is awesome sauce! I just recently picked up a Fostex X-28H and can't wait to jump in and start recording.
This track shreds. Vox fly high, big dawg. Buying one now.
People always talk about how cassette recording is "noisy." However, if you use the noise reduction, it really becomes negligible. Nice song and recording! Glad you're enjoying the world of analog. I've probably owned almost every model of Tascam 4-track at one time or another. There are probably four or five that I never had. Got my first four-track in 1986 (Fostex X-26), and ever since then, no matter what other rig I had, I always have a cassette 4-track around. Just such a fun experience!
Your voice is sweet man, it has so much potential!
Appreciate this my friend!
super sick!
Those fingerpicked chord changes reminds me of old Paul Simon songs... Great job m8
Thanks a lot man !
Hello friend, that was just beautiful. I have the tascam 488mk1 8 track cassette recorder, and its just awesome. Thanks for sharing your gift with the world. Kind regards. Paul.
Very good
Very Good!
Thanks a lot Clifford! Glad you are here.
oh yeah and the faster the tape runs,the clearer the sound. and also you casn flip the tape to make some backward tracks, and playing with the speed while recording is lots of fun too.
i got my first one of these back in 1999. i loved and love it.ps.get to know the effect lines and use them one tip qwould be to get a good compressor pedal and a good gain pedal and put them in the effect loops 1 and 2 .i will sub to see you evolution .
Love this video and the song! I have the same machine and I’m about to do my first recording on it too! I got a little confused when you were talking about your bass track dropping. Any chance you could give me a brief tape cue explanation? Thanks!
Hey Nate, thanks for stepping by. So whatever you record is controled via mixer with the sliders - you set it to L or R on each channel you want to record, set the input guitar/line and rock 'n' roll. When finished, you set each channel to Safe mode and set the input to Tape. Now where my mistake was made, was that I would keep the mixer sliders up so I could hear other tracks and since the input was put to tape, it would take what's on the tape already and print it on top of it once again. When recording backing vocals I would only punch in from the place where they come in, not the whole track, so somehow, I would get these dips in bass guitar. I may have recorded one of the vox parts with sliders up on a guitar channel, so bass got recorded on tape twice and guitars were fine. With the tape cue, you can monitor what's on the tape without recording anything on top. Just make sure when you record, only the channels you are recording on have sliders up and you should be alright. Hope this makes any sense.
@@ovidiuspine Thank you so much!! This does indeed make sense, in theory!! Can't wait to put it to the test to see how it all works. Thanks again!
@@NateCaywood good stuff, glad to help! Let me know how it goes :)
Good stuff, man! What mic/preamps you using?
Mostly at2020 and sometimes sm57. And in this video I just used tascam's own pres. I may have recorded the acoustic guitar through a yamaha mixer into the tape machine.
Hi :) How did you get phantom power for the AT2020?
Hey man, I ran at2020 through a mixer, which had phantom power. The tape machine itself doesn't have the option.
@@ovidiuspine The pres on a portastudio are noisy, try other preamps and treat the inputs as line inputs and you'll get a better result.
wow epic! what do you mean you don't sing ? you sing real good.
I bought this Portastudio model new in about 2001 or so. Stupidly sold it about 2 years ago. It was in mint condition. Since then I've bought a Tascam 464, Japanese model. I think the 4th channel is dead though. Anyway, wish I never sold the 414. Dumb move. Nice song by the way. Sounds great.
Remember you can record hot to tape. It will help drown out the noise
You are using the wrong Tape type, it need Type-II crO-2 cassette to match the factory settings bias for low noise higher sounds quality
The resurrected Kurt Cobain freaked out on modern days high fidelity and went back to tape. Keep it real Kurt!
hahaha that's right buddy !