🙏 i don’t feel that way thanks to this comment 🙏🤘🤘

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oh that sounds like a fun experiment! kids are the best at testing limits

thanks for sharing! that's a killer idea and technique 🤘🙏

thank you that truly means a lot. i hope to dig deeper into similar territory as the channel grows! 🙏

LOVE Hainbach!!! i’ll be on the lookout for varispeed units!

ahhh that means a lot thank you!

thanks for watching!

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ahhhhh that's amazing thank you

i appreciate this comment and we’re just getting started! happy to have you join me on the journey!

have fun! it's a cool technique: quick and easy!

YOU'RE awesome!

thanks Henry!

🙏 it’s super fun! 🤘

it's a fun technique! enjoy!

ahh thanks for sharing! I love the "stereo" pair of cassette 'corders...might have to try that myself now! 😂

blew my mind the first time i heard about it! and it legit sounds cool blended in 🤘

amazing! side note my dad was a an early mainframe computer architect and he still has one tape canister from the IBM 3850! crazy to think of sophisticated super computers storing data on two inch tape! 🙏🙌

@@MadeOnTape yep. I still have an original “Frogger” video game cassette tape for the Atari home computer. It would take about 5 - 15 minutes to load a game that was about the same amount of data as an emoji.

the thing “futurists” in the 1950s and 60s did not often predict was the data processing size and speed! it’s so fascinating how it’s all still 1s and 0s just faster and smaller 🙌

Ya digital is so basic actually. Seems like there’d be a better way by now. I Always think of digital as just drawing waveforms on a piece of graph paper and the “resolution” is just the number and size of the little squares on the graph paper. And yer never going to get those squares small enough to match analog so digital sucks! 😂

yes 💯 i love that crunch !

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i noticed that too! seems like a novelty market mark up perhaps? you can still find them randomly for cheaper on FB marketplace tho!

let me know if you’re distorts quickly like mine 😂🙏

@@MadeOnTape Mine doesn't seem to distort as quickly, but I'll be real with you: a few years ago, I tried 2-3 different models and picked the one with the cleanest/clearest sound. FWIW, distortion might help mask some of the automatic compression, which was really noticeable when I tried to use mine as an "effect mic." It's a cool sound but easily overpowers a normal mic signal on softer parts.

@@JordanSeal that's good to know! I still walk into places like Goodwill when I have time to see what weird stuff ends up on the shelf! Maybe the next one will be cleaner

one of my favorites! i’m gonna use it on a drum session tonight!

oh god i need a real drummer 😂 thanks to all for putting up with my crap drum examples. i swear i’ll get more qualified folks soon 😆

@@MadeOnTape you're doing great on the drums! I was just laughing at the distortion with the tape recorder haha

That "Song 2" intro tho...

absurd snap and crunch: sounds like the name of a food product! i’ve had better luck with machines from the 90s, and they are all absurd! thanks for watching 🙏 and let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see covered on this channel

it’s ok! they are CHEAP-O! 😂

@@MadeOnTape 👍🏻🤣

dismal like Daniel Johnston 🙌🏻 definitely more ideal recording ability accesible to people today: i’m not an analog purist. if all i had was the method you described, it would feel dismal to me as well. thanks for watching!

hell yeah

let me know how it goes! these things are fun and inexpensive! 🤘

@@MadeOnTape I definitely want to record some ocean sounds since we're kind of a surf band and we surf and live pretty close to the beach. Maybe just sound effects for song transitions, which are kinda cheesy, but think of "Dock of a Bay" or "Rainy Day in June." Something like that, but with a fucked up distorted cassette sound.

Sylvia is the best. such a fountain of creativity. hell yeah overdriven 🐮 🔔 🤘

it’s one of my favorite studio tools and an easy way to get people excited 🤘

it’s all about the fun you have with it! 🤘🙌🙏

Hell yeah!

me too! 🤘

ohhh i’ll have to check that out! thanks for sharing!

yesss!!! amazing

that’s a high form of flattery!

love those records! 🙌

@@MadeOnTape yeah so do I. Berry Gordy got the reverb for all those recordings from the toilet! Can you believe that?.. I laughed out loud when I saw the Tamala Motown documentary. You can just imagine the scenario if some was in the toilet taking a dump at the time of recording then you hear a plop sound on the record 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

thanks for commenting! did you watch? no cassettes we’re involved in this video. cheers from NYC 🗽 ✌️

yes it needs power of some kind, and i'm recording it but I can't remember if it comes in Line level or mic level. have fun and happy recording!

excellent question! For this technique in this video, we are bypassing the cassette completely. I saw the engineer Sylvia Massy do this several times... You're basically using the machine as an effect microphone. The omni mic and limiter in the machine does a crazy crushed drum sound that's very unique. As for other cassette projects, I work in the analog world 100%, and if I'm ready to add tracks digitally, I would bring in the cassette recording and work around it. In other words, I personally wouldn't try to add analog cassette tracks to a digital recording (with some exceptions!). Hope this all makes sense!

excellent suggestion! Did Keith Richards do something like that? I always get that story confused...

@@MadeOnTape no clue. I got it from Simon The Magpie

@@RetiredOldAccount love Simon the Magpie such a quirk in the best way

@@MadeOnTape Agreed! Definitely another inspiration to just try stuff. Especially with tape.

as long as it has a built in microphone, and some way to monitor that signal, yes it will work!

i had a lot of luck with the SansAmp para driver DI. you can get way nastier than i did in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbBgeMepypnIiqM.html

@@MadeOnTape great, thanks :)

good question! i think it’s one of the SimLine by Panasonic recorders i have never tried it as an overhead, but i’m always up to try anything!

@@MadeOnTape thx for thé answer I ll try to pick one and recording drums maybe not using it as an overhead but maybe more by putting it just above the basse drum pointing the snare.

it really depends on the cassette recorder. And I assume you also mean using an interface with your computer? I've picked up some of these cassette players that didn't have a good output...luckily they're dirt cheap

should absolutely work as long as you have some kind of line out! I recently got another one where that didn’t work :-( let me know if it works for you! 🤘

@@MadeOnTape Yes, I will give a try when I get a chance. The brand is Lark, and it has the usual earphone and mic jacks.

Clean and demagnetize the head that will probably help. If its OLD it could have some capacitors that need to be replaced as well. Tape heads dont have any parts that "wear out" its essentially just a coil like a guitar pickup or transformer. Could also be a cheap piece of junk I have quite a few of those haha. 🤷‍♂️ if youre handy with a soldering iron its pretty easy to build a better preamp than the circuitry usually inside the cheap ones with 1 opamp and a few caps/resistors.

@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 my little brother is a whiz with a soldering iron and recently took a lesson with him to gain confidence in this realm. Thanks for sharing! I'm sure I'll be collecting these here and there ...

@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 Yes, I’ll definitely give that a try. Just a bit preoccupied now building a tiny closet studio under the stairs. And yes, I remember there was a circuit diagram online years ago for a really simple preamp with very few components that apparently sounded as good as some professional preamps. Might still be possible to track it down on Google.

not usually three heads! just a mic, a preamp, and the compressor. a very fun effect that’s unpredictable!

@@MadeOnTape so cool! Love stuff like that.. Some of the Sony Cassette - corder are particularly good for this, the built in limiters are interesting and some have neat external mics that sound great

i understand 💯! hit me up at madeontape@gmail.com !

oooh that's a great question! I've never tried it! If line in doesn't work as well, I would either reamp a synth part or have it playing through and amp while tracking if I wanted to use the microphone on the cassette recorder... If you try the line in, let me know how it goes!

@@MadeOnTape called the "mic in" jack on my Sears recorder ... it does work. Much crunchier / distorted (in a good way) when I run a synth bass arp through the shoebox.

that's awesome! happy to hear that!

yes! some do have that! But for this I wanted to use the whole machine as a "microphone"...It's built-in limiter is crunchy in a fun way to mix in with regular mics

hmmmm. It can be an impedance thing? If you're on IG find me there and I might be able to help

the SoundToys plugin? i LOVE that plugin! this technique is less predictable, which can be a desired attribute or not, depending on the situation! thank you for checking it out 🙏

great question! any kind of super crusher/limiter would get you to a similar spot

thanks for the kind words! you don’t even need a csssette on some models since you’re just using the microphone and limiter any cassette will do! preferably not a fancy one 🤘🏻

@@MadeOnTape Thanks! Should the cassette be empty or?? This was all before I was born! Could you advise me on where to find one? I’m looking at getting this same cassette recorder :)

this one is a mono machine very very lofi. if you’re interested in a great stereo machine, check out the Uher report monitor 4200

does yours distort real quickly? i'm curious 😂

isn’t that fun! also we bypassed the tape, so there’s no tape hiss. happy recording! 🤘

fun fact: humans are closer in time to T-Rex than T-Rex was to Stegosaurus

never heard a plugin that does the same thing, and this was only $10

one person’s trash is another persons treasure ✌🏻

😂 you think i can afford to live in the united states without one? i’ll take that as a compliment 🙏 for the record i can’t remember not needing multiple day jobs, and healthcare still sucks

Direct your lousy comments somewhere else, this guy is cool!