How to do Sound on Sound Looping with Cassette and Tape Recorders
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- Sound on Sound Looping means recording over existing sounds without erasing them. A beautiful technique that is as old as magnetic tape. Its easy to implement, even on humble cassette recorders. No soldering or screwdrivers needed, as I show in this video.
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Your kids are lucky to have a brilliant artist as a dad!
...Aaand again you have sent me back into post-apocalyptic cinematic memories that never happend. Taperunner 2048.
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Queue Hainbach on a film poster painted by Drew Struzan, token female actress in the background, wielding a cassette tape as if it where a gun and underneath the title, the tagline: "Man has made his beat, now he must loop it..."
Why do I switch to eBay automatically when I watch your videos🤯
Same!
SAME!!
same here ^^
same :P
I hear you. I’ve already spent several hundred dollars on Bruel & Kjaer equipment I never knew I needed, and I’m a painter!
That 4-track chord technique sounded absolutely beautiful
Got me seriously thinking about this tape loop thing
IiN has a band member that uses a 4 track chord method. :)
@@Brokeninc Allesandro Cortini -- Hainbach mentions him in the video, I think that's where he first saw the technique.
My sister taught me to use clear nail varnish to splice tape loops. You get a little overlap but if you can't afford the pro stuff, the nail varnish works perfectly. It's particularly strong so the overlap can be pretty small
You seriously inspire me so much, I've learnt a goldmine of information over the past year about the sounds I want to make because of channels like yours, So i guess what I'm saying is thank you for sharing your art and creative process with us all!
This is wonderful stuff, Hainbach !! Takes me back to the Theatre Sound Dept (RSC). In the recording studio, we would have 3 long tape loops balanced round mic stands to their Rexox B77. 6 chans of ambience to ride/mix onto one of the two track 'Show Tapes'. The left chan dry....Right chan with some reverb. You needed a SHARP helper to dance from machine to machine, keeping the infeed to the tension arms just right. Engineer friend : " mixing down, I need a Loop Buddy "....... Me (big smile) : " you know I want it " . Great times. We moved to Akai Samplers and MIDI triggering software on an ATARI. Amazing what you can do with 32 Meg of memory. Not the same fun, though. :-( :-) :-)
You are a beautiful person. Thank you for your kindness.
tape loops with family and friends are z best. your kids look super cool and smart!! i am so excited to see more from your family sessions
I never thought to use foil to bypass the erase head. I'm gonna have to give this a try. Great video btw.
Yeah, without him blazing that trail for us... I'd have been worried it would damaged the machine!
My concern is getting electrocuted, but he didn't seem to get shocked, so...
He was the first to do it in this video & while I was observing :P
...have you had your coffee yet?
A piece of Scotch tape may do the trick instead of foil.
please avoid ruining your erase head if that's your only machine
My sister's husband referred me to your channel when we got into a deep conversation about tapes, and my humble recorder. Definitely subscribing, and definitely learning!
This seems like an overused production technique these days but I still love it and your version of it is excellently done.
Thanks, Hainbach. Such an inspiration. I love your passion for lo-fi sounds and the atmosphere it brings to the soundscape. Thanks again!
This is amazing! I am trying this out on my tape machine and Portastudio tonight! Thank you for this video
Man, thanks so much for sharing your processes and talent with all of us. This channel is a national treasure.
Great experimental stuff, Hainbach, definitely a sub from me! I like the way tape degrades sound, it makes it sound more blurred. It's almost like an audio equivalent of our memories, which blur, fade and become distorted.
I love videos like this because it gives me ideas for expanding the use of the equipment I already have.
Really beautiful sounds. I know about the technique but never watched a demo. New subscriber now. Truly fantastic sounds.
I've probably watched this video a few times now on my deep dive binges into the world of synth, but now that I have a stronger understanding of music composition and production, I better recognize the beauty being created in this Sound on Sound tutorial. Great work as always!
Wow, you must be a brave man to give a child such an expensive and rare mic to handle! 😉
Thank you!
I'm 19 years out of the game and looking to crash back in.
Inspiring.
Hainbach you are a magician. You are a true sound Artist!
Brilliant and absolutely inspiring video as usual Hainbach. Thank you again, would love to see more of these tutorials and “how to”. Videos.
Awesome content👍
Its planned! Mainly finding the time is the problem, as these take almost three days to script, shoot, edit, mix etc.
I was able to apply this technique to my old tape deck and port my modular into it. Getting some wild sounds. Thank you!
This is very inspirational, thank you! Like the stuff you do and also the style of the videos. I was going to ask about the splicing tape but already had an answer below.
And porta 02 purchased. Thank you for these videos. You so easily explain the basic of these machines, so it lets a hobbyist like myself skip the learning and experimenting stage that can usually be such a struggle and jump straight to creating! So excited to start making some loops!
Thank you, Hainbach, this opens a world for me to explore! 🙏🏻
I’m daydreamin’ about what I could do with my old Tascam Portastudio 488 that I’ve recently repaired!
That last piece sent me traveling through the cosmos. Well done!
The foil is a great trick! I’ve been making drone loops on cassette but went as far as to mod a cassette deck to remove the passive erase head, but if can do it with my 4 track 😍
Thank you for this video. I have just eliminated much struggle to expand my approach to sound from one upload. Great demo
Your music is so beautiful, you've inspired me to try and get into tape
Fascinating technique for producing other-worldly sounds, love it!
I just picked up a fostex x-18 and am looking forward to putting these tips to use! Got some awesome endless tapes and stoked I stumbled upon this video. Tape addiction begins!
I really love how you put every possibility of creating music to the next step. You truely are a visionary and an inspiration. I can totally relate to your ideas and your way of thinking. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you very much! That is amazing to hear.
If you're going to get into tape loops. I suggest finding a splicing block and learning to use a razor. Also, cutting the tape at an angle reduces the chance of a pop over a splice. You can get splice blocks for just about ever size of tape including cassette.
You will like tomorrow's video :-)
Thank you Hainbach. Strange, cool. beautiful SOUNDSCAPES! Your daughters are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
My friend, thank you for this. This is so inspiring and I will look around to play and experiment with this technique 🙌
Excited to try this out, thanks for another great video!
I just dug my old Caliphone 5275 out and ordered a couple blank cassettes! I'm going to add an erase-head defeat switch to it! It also has a sync track head that I might rejigger into a second audio track. It looks pretty straightforward to do that, looking at the schematic. Thanks for the inspiration!!
great video, thank you! nothing beats the old tape sound. I am playing with the tascam and while the technique is easy to apply, building the actual tape loops is so frustrating. big respect to have the patience to build a good loop with regular cassettes :-)
that child is holding a thousand dollar microphone, I am impressed by the amount of trust you have. cool video
So inspiring - thank you Hainbach! 👍
this is a very inspiring video. thank you for explaining these techniques.
This was amazing - I haven't messed w/4-tracks since my punk days, just put an offer on a fostex x-18 - cheers!
That is really great. Very inspirational technique.
So...much...inspiration! I dont have a 4-track, but it's given me a load of ideas for using multiple walkmen. Thank you for such a clear instruction.
Multiple Walkman and simple mixer are awesome!
4EVA
And eva and eva! You guys are great 😎💚
maybe weird question... is there a good Reddit community of tape lovers like this?
Beautiful sounds! Tapes4ever!
Wow, my man. Youve made a fan for life.
I would cut tape at 45 degree angle for loops. Great video , always enjoy them. Cheers
Brilliant video, I love anything like this, old school audio processing :-)
Hello Hainbach, I've always been intrigued by the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows tape loops. They were apparently recorded with this SoS technique (and inspired by Stockhausen). With the ton of vintage equipment that you have, it would be so cool to see you trying to recreate them. I know this sounds like non-creative, but I always felt investigating how the greats did their thing has been so inspiring. So are your videos and music. MFG
Very cool. I have a Fostex X-12 coming to me through the mail. Was looking into modding it, but this is just slightly easier. Haha. And I just subscribed. Excited to add a 4 track and tape loops to my music. Thanks for all the information and ideas!
i feel like punching walls because of how beautiful this is, im definitely trying this with my tascam. thank u✨
I come here from time to time to find inspiration for creativity... and I'm never disappointed!
Man, the OP1 is amazing... would love to get my hands on one.
i am coming back and back again to listen to the nagra tape s o s ... what a beautiful machine
dude, you are my hero!
Greetings from Chile :)
absolutely beautiful! love your work
Amazing! And bravo for showing how you have fun w/ your "job" w/ your kids. I often feel like an odd-one-out as a parent in a creative field. Gives me hope :)
Its totally possible, though I try to stay home more instead of traveling. Theatre works entails a lot of extended periods away. TH-cam and Patreon are starting to help me stay at home more.
That's great! For now, for me, audio is the dreaded "H" word (hobby). That's why when I'm looking at gear, portability is one of the biggest things, since I only have the time on the train, and lunch breaks. Currently I have a PO, the OP-1, and a travel Risa Solid Uke in my work bag. But everytime I watch your videos, I learn new, exciting things to try out. And when my kids get a little older, to have them 'help' me with ;)
Travel setups are my speciality! OP1, tape dictaphone and Plumbutter would be my Desert Island kit.
I meant abandoned island :-)
I totally recognize this. Being a creative parent can be painful. Late nights, no sleep and many excuses
That is bloody marvellous! Thank you.
AT LAST!! I finally understand what (and how) sound on sound is! Thank you Hainbach!
This is one way. The way popularized by Fripp is to have the tape running on two reel to reels, with the first recording and the second playing back and then using a mixer to send the playback to be recorded again.
I picked up a few reel to reels quite recently, one of these being a Philips EL3542A, and it turns out that this particular machine has a built in feature that allows you to make sound on sound recordings. It calls it the "super-impose lever", I haven't been able to play about with it yet as the machine requires some TLC as well as some banana plugs to connect it to stuff, but it's pretty cool that a commercially available machine made for consumer use has such a feature built into it.
that is very cool. I love the name alone. Please share in reddit.com/r/hainbach what you do with it!
Excellent...and good for your girls that they have the luck to be involved with music and experimentation form an early age. They are super cute, congrats. The end piece sounds dense and powerful...I got a reel to reel recorder and am waiting for the tape to start my own experiments.
Thank you very much! Yeah, once I add the Echo to the mics its a party here.
I have that exact Fostex machine and have tried doing a few tape loops before, this vid is inspiring me to do some more and maybe turn the results into a vid for my channel. Pretty powerful stuff.
music has the right to children
It sure has the right to me ;)
Nice 😁
U mean children has the right to music
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Boards of Canada😁
Inspiring video, I really wanna start splicing tape now !
Soooo nicely done!!!
The End result sounds exactly like something from Black Swan's loop based 2xlp called Repetition Hymns. Great work!
Awesome. Man your daughters are having a blast and they will always remember doing this stuff with you with forever. My daughters can play with the simplest little delay pedal for hours. Making great memories!! Very cool!!!
I hope so! One of the most fun instruments for them is the Cocoquantus with its easily pitchable delays and loopers. Cheers to daugthers!
@@Hainbach Four years on, are your daughters still having fun playing with the equipment, have they become more intentional with making music? Would be cool to see an update video
Wow this is very beautiful and inspiring. Thanks Hainbach, you are a great man!
Awesome tutorial!
Cool effects with sound on sound recording! 🙂🙂 Love that track towards the end of your video & wished there was the track on iTunes Store! 🙂🙂🔊🔊
This makes me want to dig out some tape loops I've had sat around for ages and record some stuff onto them.
I have a radioreporter cassetterecorder with sound on sound function. It’s a Philips D6920 MK 2. I really got to try this technique! Thank you for this video. Jimi.
That aluminum foil trick is so damn smart! I have been thinking about disabling the erase head on my fourtrack for so long. Have to try it that way. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love to use this technique too!! Much love and Respect from New Orleans Louisiana..☆ Stephopalopal aka Big Mama of music and Peace ~
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this was so cool. I can't wait to try this myself
Thank you so much for this. So inspiring.
Thank you for all of the great videos, Hainbach. Also, I had been looking for an adequate cassette player with variable speed control for quite a while. Thanks to your library of Congress C-1 video, i recently got my hands on a C-1 in mint condition. It was still wrapped in plastic. Thank you! You should make more video content with it sometime!
Wow, that is a lucky find! I actually recorded ten tracks with the C1, its a special thing that will be released end of this month.
I also have the X28H, beautiful device, thank you so much for this demonstration 💫
It is a very cool Machine indeed, enjoy!
Amazing technique very useful!
Enjoy that it was instructive and interesting, Used to do the same sort of thing, thanks
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!
sublime. keep going on Hainbach :)
A great tutorial thank you I am deffinatly going to give this a try.
Just picked up my first 4 tack in great part due to this post. Now if I could only find a Nagra for less that 10 billion dollars I’d be set
Ive been experimenting with cassette loops for a while now. I love your videos covering the topic. It helps spread the knowledge of possibilities well for people not familiar with this art. I find yours and AMULETS videos encouraging and inspiring, it feels nice to know that there are ithers out there who share the passion for un restricted creativity and exploration! Keep up the awesome work my friend. Cheers from Chicago IL.
-Elix Smith
Thank you Elix! That is good to hear. I remember doing this in what felt like a vacuum in pre-internet times. Sharing the knowledge will only help better the art, as new musicians bring in new ideas.
@@Hainbach exactly! Necessity is the engine of creation! I wanted lush ambient tape like synths for my music, so I dug out my old tascam porta studio cassette four track i had from when i was beginning to get seriius about playing guitar as a teen. I heard about "tape loops" on the godspeedyou! Black Emperor web page. And it led my curiosity to discover Amulets and OH THE POSIBILLITIES!!!! I intend to buy some of yours and amulets' tape mixes you guys released to add to my collection. Do you have an email to submit some of my own music to? I recall you saying in a video you were taking submissions for mixes
When you're sitting watching Hainbach with your Ableton setup, digital interface, and more VST plugins and instruments than you care to think about, but really wish you still had your Fostex X-18 four track and an old karaoke microphone...
Ha, I just opened an old multitracked modular project today and it was awesome to be able to rework it to fit the film I am scoring. It does have its advantages.
We got all the way to super-high quality digital multitracking in DAWs, then realised we'd eliminated the human element of hissing, tape dropouts and other added accidental sounds that added to the warmth of recordings. And you can't create those with a VST! :-)
Sound on sound looping is the core of my music, though I use the El Capistan and Ditto X4 (both are capable of this). I'll have to try this approach at some point as well.
You will enjoy the sound that you get - its more compressed and lo-fidelity in a pleasing way.
wow...this was amazing! again!
Thank you for teaching your children that music and equipment can be fun
Hainbach, you truly are one creative magnificent human. Good damn job!
Thanks so much!!!!! I love your art
I wish my tape music sounded as great as yours!! But yes it is huge fun to make!
I use this method on my 4 track and reel to reel. Thank you!
I had to put on my big headphones for this one. Fantastic,
beautiful and inspiring.
Super cool Hainbach!!!
This is great!! Perhaps you would be kind enough to explain how all of this gets interfaced. Again, great video! Thank you.