I was always a bit skeptical of Tascam squeezing 8 tracks onto a cassette tape, but wow this sounds great! Good job with the EQ carving and the way you use reverb and delay.

I am amazed at the overall quality of the production. The song had a nice groove to it as well. Great job! As they say across the pond .. " Brilliant ! "

I produced 20 cd releases for various artists on that exact machine - I still have it - I think after hearing this that I need to drag it back out and get it humming again... hope I can find parts for it still .. Enjoyed your video immensely

That broken screen blakens my heart. Good tutorial though ,I have to rewatch it to fully comprehend everything

Great sound and awesome track too. The low end is perfect. I love both rhythm and lead guitar sounds, really good job man!

Wow must be the mother of all portastudios

2cd listen...each time better...thanx!

Great mix

Fun stuff! 😀

Awesome!

I’ll be there!

Love it! Happy new year, thanks for these videos. And thanks for your help as well, I got my 377, it’s a beauty, ordered in some new tapes and metal reels. Taking an already mastered track and running it through didn’t really improve anything if I’m honest, but it will definitely add character to instrument groups before mastering. I also had an issue twice with the left channel dropping out for .1 sec, but I was using old old tape since my new ones haven’t came in yet, so maybe that was the problem?

this is so awesome! just curious, how did you recorder the drums on this song? was it a (very well-placed) two mic set up or multiple mics running into another mixer and out to those two channels? regardless, they sound GREAT!

This is awesome. Did you track with any compression? Was always curious if that was even possible on these machines

so useful thank you! quick question: what delay pedal is that and how are you setting it up? and also do you have the noise reduction ON? if you don’t mind please. best to you

Nice big drum sound. Try adding some echo for even more bigness!

Hey my friend , I read that the drums were made with a drum machine And was curious which drum machine you used ? They sounded really great as does the whole mix ! Best, Ethan

Sounds great! Is the 688 you're favorite portastudio?

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I would like to pick up an analog tape multitracker, because they are charming. Really about the sound this tech and not a sceen all the time. But the lack of spare parts holds me back. Perhaps a serviced machine would be an option. Don´t know.

I have but don't no how to use I only use it as a normal mixer

Any more of those analog cassette EPs left?

It’s the source!

What model Tascam is this?

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Giving that you hav 8 track on those tiny tape width... it sound good... but its tully nostalgia induces...as you could probably do do the same stuff time 20 with a simple tascam model 12... fidelity give you a lot...you can always downgrade the signal... i work on a studer 24 for years... it was great...but a casette isnt really hi fidelity whatever speed you run it. You can actually keep that workflow..and hands on on modern equipement downgrade your signal to caette warm or whatever... but you can go the other way up... personally when i realised that i sold all my old portastudio... wich cost me thosand to maintain,,, allign etc... i always wonder why in the photography world.. that analogue crap never really hold on... evreyone move on... must be the fact they actually to had red room with chemical to devlopped their analog film..... while we Old dinosaurs... just had to push play... they embrase digital way better then us.. with no contreversy... yet looking at a vinyl turning is better then a cell... on spotify lol