This is our modern day Bob Ross.. I love how wholesome and educational this channel is, while also being musically interesting and experimental.. living the dream Hainbach! : )
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..."
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
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 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!
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!
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!
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!
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!!!
@@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
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 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!
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!!
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
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.
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 ;)
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.
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👍
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 :-)
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.
Hainbach - I enjoy your creativity. I too am a musician with a band, but I also compose and create with my 4 channel reel to reel deck. Recently I experimented recording two stereo ambient tracks onto the 4 track so that a third combined composition is created, and played through 4 speakers in a quadraphonic configuration. The results were very enjoyable, if I avoid conflicting beats. I ventured into combining 4 ambient tracks, 45 minutes in length. The resulting track was very dense and sounded like it was conjuring up hellish demons. It was quite the hellride, so I do not recommend that.
Wish I got get in touch with you. I have 2 RR Tapes recorded on a TEAC 4 track RR to make a demo tape for the band I ran sound for. I am not going to buy a used recorder when all I want to do is get each track played and converted to a digital format so I can remix on my computer and try to recreate the lost demo cassettes we made in 1980.
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
_Thanks for watching, and see thou in the next one. Bye!_ Bob Ross has resurrected! I love it! Seriously, just compare: Bob Ross was a master of his craft, just as you are. And he appeared to be friendly and full of love, just as you do.
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.
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.
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!
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 😍
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.
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!
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.
This is so good, so glad I stumbled across and subscribed. I love ambient; Susumu Yokota, Eno, Global Communication, Boards of Canada... Loved this so much I thought, "I wonder if he has released stuff?" And you have! I'm going to be listening to your releases all day today whilst I work. I just can't believe I hadn't heard your music before. Better late than never. Keep it coming!
Thank you Stephen! I have a lot on my Bandcamp/spotify etc, and my most recent album is still available on tape here: seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-piano-works
How do you go about dealing with post production tape hiss? Any extra info on the subject of noise reduction would be highly appreciated, Your compositions always sound so crisp and well produced!
There are some tape players that combine the three heads into two - the write/record head will also erase the previous sounds. In that case, you can't block the erase head without also blocking the recording function. So you will need a player with separate recording and erasing heads. If the heads aren't coverable due to how they sit in the machine, you can also more permanently alter the machine by disconnecting the wire used to electromagnetize the erase head. But then if you want to turn the erase head back on for normal recordings, you have to solder the wire back onto the head.
Just spent 5 hours to understand how I can play a tape loop on my Yamaha mt8x multitrack. I tried different length configuration of tape loop but each time, after 6 seconds the player it stops by itself. this happen only with a tape loop otherwise the multitrack works. it almost seems to recognize it is a tampered tape. do you know any tricks to solve?
Your kids are lucky to have a brilliant artist as a dad!
This is our modern day Bob Ross..
I love how wholesome and educational this channel is, while also being musically interesting and experimental..
living the dream Hainbach! : )
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.
...Aaand again you have sent me back into post-apocalyptic cinematic memories that never happend. Taperunner 2048.
read Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my Life!!!!!!!
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..."
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
Hiya, do you mean using clear nail varnish to join the two ends together?
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 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!
that child is holding a thousand dollar microphone, I am impressed by the amount of trust you have. cool video
Why do I switch to eBay automatically when I watch your videos🤯
Same!
SAME!!
same here ^^
I hear you. I’ve already spent several hundred dollars on Bruel & Kjaer equipment I never knew I needed, and I’m a painter!
@@xaxua I'll take it, honestly
You are a beautiful person. Thank you for your kindness.
Hainbach you are a magician. You are a true sound Artist!
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!
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!
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'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!
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 for this video. I have just eliminated much struggle to expand my approach to sound from one upload. Great demo
This seems like an overused production technique these days but I still love it and your version of it is excellently done.
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
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.
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!
I would cut tape at 45 degree angle for loops. Great video , always enjoy them. Cheers
Man, thanks so much for sharing your processes and talent with all of us. This channel is a national treasure.
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!
Really beautiful sounds. I know about the technique but never watched a demo. New subscriber now. Truly fantastic sounds.
I love videos like this because it gives me ideas for expanding the use of the equipment I already have.
Thanks, Hainbach. Such an inspiration. I love your passion for lo-fi sounds and the atmosphere it brings to the soundscape. Thanks again!
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.
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!!
I come here from time to time to find inspiration for creativity... and I'm never disappointed!
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
The End result sounds exactly like something from Black Swan's loop based 2xlp called Repetition Hymns. Great work!
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.
Thank you Hainbach. Strange, cool. beautiful SOUNDSCAPES! Your daughters are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
I'm 19 years out of the game and looking to crash back in.
Inspiring.
I was able to apply this technique to my old tape deck and port my modular into it. Getting some wild sounds. Thank you!
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
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 :-)
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.
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 :-)
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!
dude, you are my hero!
Greetings from Chile :)
Hainbach - I enjoy your creativity. I too am a musician with a band, but I also compose and create with my 4 channel reel to reel deck. Recently I experimented recording two stereo ambient tracks onto the 4 track so that a third combined composition is created, and played through 4 speakers in a quadraphonic configuration. The results were very enjoyable, if I avoid conflicting beats. I ventured into combining 4 ambient tracks, 45 minutes in length. The resulting track was very dense and sounded like it was conjuring up hellish demons. It was quite the hellride, so I do not recommend that.
Wish I got get in touch with you. I have 2 RR Tapes recorded on a TEAC 4 track RR to make a demo tape for the band I ran sound for. I am not going to buy a used recorder when all I want to do is get each track played and converted to a digital format so I can remix on my computer and try to recreate the lost demo cassettes we made in 1980.
@@davidgates5191 yes I understand, I have boo coo recordings on every kind of media going back to 1978. If I can help you out let me know, no charge.
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
This was amazing - I haven't messed w/4-tracks since my punk days, just put an offer on a fostex x-18 - cheers!
Fascinating technique for producing other-worldly sounds, love it!
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
i feel like punching walls because of how beautiful this is, im definitely trying this with my tascam. thank u✨
The 4 channel chord solution is mindblowing! Love your work Hainbach, true freak!
Wow, my man. Youve made a fan for life.
_Thanks for watching, and see thou in the next one. Bye!_
Bob Ross has resurrected! I love it!
Seriously, just compare: Bob Ross was a master of his craft, just as you are. And he appeared to be friendly and full of love, just as you do.
Totally taking this as a compliment, thank you!
😀thats so true!
Your music is so beautiful, you've inspired me to try and get into tape
i am coming back and back again to listen to the nagra tape s o s ... what a beautiful machine
Love this... I had finally gotten over my irrational ebay browsing for portable tape decks... but now you're making it all almost rational :-D
Absolutely the most rational thing to do! Its a finite resource after all, noone will built them decently in the future.
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.
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.
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.
music has the right to children
It sure has the right to me ;)
Nice 😁
U mean children has the right to music
BOC👍
Boards of Canada😁
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
Excited to try this out, thanks for another great video!
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 😍
Wow, you must be a brave man to give a child such an expensive and rare mic to handle! 😉
Nine Inch Nails use this in live performances & Recording sessions to add ambience /mood. Thank you sir
Cool effects with sound on sound recording! 🙂🙂 Love that track towards the end of your video & wished there was the track on iTunes Store! 🙂🙂🔊🔊
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! :-)
that kid is holding a mic worth more than my mic setup for my drums lmaooo. great video!
This is amazing! I am trying this out on my tape machine and Portastudio tonight! Thank you for this video
Amazing technique very useful!
hainbach is the greatest dad ever
I wish my tape music sounded as great as yours!! But yes it is huge fun to make!
Man, the OP1 is amazing... would love to get my hands on one.
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.
Danke dir, tolles Video mal wieder :) Und schön zu sehen, dass Kinder auch heute noch mit Musik und Experimentiererei aufwachsen können :)
Ja, die haben Spaß mit Mikrofon und Echos! Überlege schon, wie ich eine kleine Loopstation im Kinderzimmer einrichten könnte.
@@Hainbach Ein Loop-Abenteuerland für die Kids?😅 Besser als jeder Freizeitpark :P
this is a very inspiring video. thank you for explaining these techniques.
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!
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 ~
Hey I'm from New Orleans too, who dat!
@@storyinsoil5064 Love your name and from NOLA..Who DAT Nation!! Oooh..Gotta Know I love ya♡♡ Big super Hugs!!
This is so good, so glad I stumbled across and subscribed. I love ambient; Susumu Yokota, Eno, Global Communication, Boards of Canada... Loved this so much I thought, "I wonder if he has released stuff?" And you have! I'm going to be listening to your releases all day today whilst I work. I just can't believe I hadn't heard your music before. Better late than never. Keep it coming!
Thank you Stephen! I have a lot on my Bandcamp/spotify etc, and my most recent album is still available on tape here: seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-piano-works
You should also check out Hiroshi Yoshimura and Satoshi Ashikawa!
Excellent stuff, very reminiscent of the Blade Runner score by Vangelis!
Who is forever amazing!
How do you go about dealing with post production tape hiss? Any extra info on the subject of noise reduction would be highly appreciated, Your compositions always sound so crisp and well produced!
My friend, thank you for this. This is so inspiring and I will look around to play and experiment with this technique 🙌
Wow this is very beautiful and inspiring. Thanks Hainbach, you are a great man!
Hainbach, you truly are one creative magnificent human. Good damn job!
This makes me want to dig out some tape loops I've had sat around for ages and record some stuff onto them.
That is bloody marvellous! Thank you.
SO great, do i need a special tape recorder to be able to use foil to bypass the erase head ? Seems this model made it possible or i'm wrong ?
There are some tape players that combine the three heads into two - the write/record head will also erase the previous sounds. In that case, you can't block the erase head without also blocking the recording function. So you will need a player with separate recording and erasing heads. If the heads aren't coverable due to how they sit in the machine, you can also more permanently alter the machine by disconnecting the wire used to electromagnetize the erase head. But then if you want to turn the erase head back on for normal recordings, you have to solder the wire back onto the head.
where can you get those new fostex cassette machines? they look dope
This is great!! Perhaps you would be kind enough to explain how all of this gets interfaced. Again, great video! Thank you.
this was so cool. I can't wait to try this myself
Brilliant video, I love anything like this, old school audio processing :-)
The tin foil was a strike of genius! Excellent, mate!
I also have the X28H, beautiful device, thank you so much for this demonstration 💫
It is a very cool Machine indeed, enjoy!
Awesome video! Thx! :)
I have an Uher 4400 Stereo Report. I wonder, how can you record on the loop, and 'play' the loop at the same time?
I sincerely hope your daughters follow your lead in making music. If you make it fun for them, the hope is that they continue down that road.
9:09 this sounds great!
Some tapestuff reminds me of holger Czukay and David Sylvian.
Inspirational video.
Thanx for posting. :-)
JEROEN FIGEE two of my favorite albums
Hi! If I block eraser head, how do I prevent rerecord the loop on itself. (After that 5sec circle finished)
Why would that happen? Unless you feedback the loop into itself.
@@Hainbach you mean after circle of tape finishes during recording - loop begins to overwrite itself and doesn’t duplicate sound?
Just spent 5 hours to understand how I can play a tape loop on my Yamaha mt8x multitrack. I tried different length configuration of tape loop but each time, after 6 seconds the player it stops by itself. this happen only with a tape loop otherwise the multitrack works. it almost seems to recognize it is a tampered tape. do you know any tricks to solve?
I had to put on my big headphones for this one. Fantastic,