Former-engineer-me cringes... Use a splicing block, especially for taping the bits together. Splice to leads so you can spool all tape onto an 'ashtray' rather than letting it run wherever. Never (ever) move the pancake without a reel underneath. But the most important of all... Always remember to degauss the tripod and the mic stand. ;-)
@@Hainbach That's what that little white thing on the lower right corner is, I'm 99% positive. That said, for this sort of thing, it's not that big a deal. Watch videos of the Dutch Masters working (there's a couple here on RUclips, and you'll see they just used scissors and scotch tape, and no splicing block at all. For "real" edits, if you're splicing a song or whatever, a much better technique is required, but for this sort of stuff, it's more like "YOLO!" ruclips.net/video/1RjMuB8Qkd8/видео.html
A good splicing block with have a perfect channel where the tape seems to "snap" in nice and straight, and the taped splice will be perfectly aligned. There should also be a thin diagonal channel for a razor. There's not much use for them these days, but I still love tape.
Thank you! It was a curious balance. I tried to keep it in the spirit of how it was created, without being boring. I cut about 25min of spooling back and forth, picking up dropped pieces of tape, searching for my demagnetizer, answering the door etc. Good to hear that the spirit of let's just do this is kept alive.
another inspiring video. Most of us would have gone mad when the machine pulled in the tape. But the serenity with which you react is also reflected in your music. thanks for the creative impulses
Nice, Mr. H. Like you, I have some high-end tape machines and limited experience getting deep with them, like this. Best experiment was probably getting an old Telefunken answering machine loop to convert into a useful tape-echo reel without much mess (it was short). I have so much respect for the masters of this craft, Delia and all those who never received the recognition they deserved. Perhaps we can try to use one channel with a pulse recorded simultaneously (listening to it also in headphones), to sync a modular to the tape loop and hopefully make finding exact cut points easier. In a way, what they did back then with measuring tape and multiple pieces of the same note is easier...but there's nothing particularly easy about any of it. A real nail biter of an episode. Excellent work, and brave of you to share the journey with all of us.
My god! This is absolutely insane & incredibly difficult! Watching this, I was reminded of Perrey and Kingsley (among others with infinite patience and diligence from the period) and how they created practically all their music in the 60s and 70s this way - the only form of sampling. Amazing to watch this and think about how "electronic" musicians struggled before the advent of the digital age.
Oh yes! It was a very deliberate and painstaking process. Funny, right after uploading this I made a rather video/sound rhythmic piece that would have taken months back in the days. And it was three hours now.
My heart leapt to my throat as I watched you scramble to turn off the machine. I'm glad it didn't do any real damage. The music is sweet as usual. The backwards cymbal is thrilling.
I'm sorry to say, but the more you struggled, the more I enjoyed the video :) It hit close to home, and made me feel better about the growing pains of creating something. Can't wait for the next one!
Wow I haven't done that since college back in the early 80s. One of my first loop pieces was made from a recording of me playing my flute in a stairwell. It took me about a month to create. I still love the piece. You can get a splicing block for taping the pieces together. It makes it a lot easier
"Let's do the right thing and play it back at half speed!" :D Priceless Could be written on a t-shirt. I know it's three years later now but I still must try this 🤩
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An analog man in a digital world and it's amazing! Nice video, keep it like this.
The physical aspect of tape- you running it around your door handle, draping it over the mic stand- is what makes it seem magic to me. It's something real, and can be manipulated in physical ways, interact with the world. You don't get much of that in a DAW, and it feels inspiring, somehow, to be reminded that music is still more than data
Terry Riley had his loops go out of the window in his yard spinning around bottles. The amount of patience a person has to have to create an album this way is dedication! Love to see you enjoyed this experiment very much. Tape splicers make it a tad easier, but yes mistakes will happen: )
videos such as these reinforce what makes you a pleasure to watch! you are quite willing to show your mistakes and still make some beautiful textures in doing so
Hainbach is the master of ambient drones. This is really cool, but I fear if I bring home a giant tape machine home my girlfriend will kill me. Thank you for showing your mistakes and the process that you went through. Nobody is perfect and especially not these trolls in the comment section.
@@Hainbach SUPER EXCITED FOR pt 2. Thank you for doing this. Im over here in California still trying to perfect my cassette loop skills. LOL. Just checked out the UHER and I think I found my next purchase. Perfect recommendation, thanks. Now instead of killing me, she's going to think I secretly joined the FBI and am wire tapping the neighbors apartment. Haha.
I couldn't justify the price or footprint of a reel to reel to my partener. I do collect lots of weird and wonderfull library and spoken word vinyl, though, which is great to manipulate by hand through pedal chains
"doing stuff like this on cassette, making your own loops pffff, I find that to be rather difficult..." YUP! haha, but might have to do a video like this using cassettes...
I have made a couple of cassette loops, damn they're so fiddly. I find it impossible to do anything exactly. I have a couple of the common length easier ones and put industrial sounds on. The "bump" is clearly audible but goes well with the source material and gives e xtra texture. I embrace the random results and exploit them. Not everybodys cup of tea though. Kee up the good work Hainbach.
i think you blew my mind with this. i previously thought tape was a waste of time but damn. the reversed cymbal is a thing of beauty, especially at half speed
As far as advice for you, try recording at double speed then when you play it back at normal speed you will hear the difference. I think it gives it a little bit more character. Plus u save tape
11:42 dude!!! Ian not laughing at your pain but with your pain. That would be me there with the tape in the capstan only mine would have consumed the whole tape and somehow inexplicably catch fire. At least I died laughing.
This has been amazing and takes care of some G.A.S. that I had 15 minutes ago. Now I am going to hug my Morphagene, my Phonogene, and my El Capistan, and my Volante.
Ha, not by nature! I trained myself hard to have patience by building model airplanes as a kid. There I learned that patience is rewarded, impatience leads to failure. Still, it's like my impatience is caged in a zoo.
I shot a documentary recently at the rest of WDR STudio für elektronische Musik, with Volker Müller the sound engeneer, that worked there since 1972. And he used the old 50s/60s setup with three M15s for this. Pretty impressing, I got to jam on them during the breaks. He showed some pretty nice techniques. Can let you know when its finished!
a bit of advice for the initiated - store your loops tails out on small 5cm bobbins (small reels) for posterity and LABEL them with the date - you will be GLAD you did !!! i have several hundred of these from the 1980s
Awesome video! I don’t know if this was mentioned elsewhere, but when I was doing theatre sound with tape machines back in the 80s, I’d use a white grease pencil to mark edit points so I wouldn’t have to guess. Love your vids!
I haven't edited tape since I was in college in the 1980's, but I think you could be making it harder than it has to be. Normally, you would rock the reels back and forth manually as you dialed in an edit point. then you would mark it with a grease pencil so you know where you're going to make a cut. You would do that for both the beginning and ending of your edit segment before making any actual cuts. As others have mentioned, you would also want to lay the pieces of tape together in a splicing block while you tape them together. You could do your cutting there as well with a razor blade, although your built in cutting mechanism might be better.
Thanks for the tip! I did the manual rocking back and forth, but I neglected the marking. It's much easier that way, I agree. And I do absolutely need a splicing block. The tape fell down so often it was not funny anymore.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful technique 🙂 Dont have that fancy gear but gonna try it with a regular tape cassette and see how it will sound 💁♂️
I used to love my Revox B77 with optical sensor. When locating edit points i could manually shuttle the reels back and forth with my hands a bit like a dj with a record, making sure i kept tension between both reels. Im not sure you can do that for yours because these reel to reel decks often employ quite strong clutches or brakes. Love this though and very entertaining ‘STOP THE MACHINES!!’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude I used to spend weeks doing this making rap beats. It would piss me off when nobody gave 2 shits about the difference of sound or the time it took everyone would just say " I think your mpc is messed up" !!! Haha regardless its awesome that you are messing around with tape it really does sound better than just using samplers to loop or even worse my ultimate hatred, fruity loops!!
Whenever I clean my cassette recorders, I use 91% isopropyl alcohol. I always avoid the pinch roller when cleaning because I’m afraid of drying it out. However, any time that I have attempted to clean them, there is always a nice brown coating of something that winds up on the q tip. Is this just dirt, or is this actually bits of the pinch roller being eroded from the alcohol?
Not sure if this is noted, and it's really not a big deal: when you're cleaning tape heads/mechanics with IPA, clean in a wiping in one direction fashion (left to right). You will risk scratching, and deforming your heads if you rub on your heads with a dirty/fluxy q-tip. It's not a big deal, but if you're using tape machines almost DAILY, you're going to wear those heads eventually.
You could also make use of a yellow chinagraph (= wax) pencil to mark your edit points and number each piece of tape. Deffo recommend a splicing block to make sure the two ends of the tape butt up against each other. No overlaps, and no gaps otherwise tape adhesive will get on your heads and capstan. Use spools not pancakes, and rock both of them back and forth to get your exact edit point.
It used to be possible to get splicing tape pre-cut into 2cm lengths on a backing strip in a handy little dispenser cartridge. This is much easier for beginners to splicing/editing
Thank you! I am not using pancakes but bobbies. They are superior to reels in that they have less drag, but you have the risk of the tape spooling off in transfer. You learn to live with that.
@@Hainbach I mean no offence to you but I was teaching tape editing to radio journalism students in the 80s. For editing music or speech it is much better to use fully enclosed spools. Pancakes or bobbies, you run a huge risk of (as happened in your vid) loads of tape falling of getting damaged, magnetised, snapped or sound quality degraded. Tip: use clothes pegs (Wäscheklammern) to attach your pieces of tape to some non-metallic string or washing line strung up from high points on walls, heads up (start of loop uppermost)
Pink Floyd and other such groups allegedly used a whole raft of microphone stands placed around the room to hold in position their tape loops. Ask Roger Waters, he'll tell you!!!!
Have you heard Pierre Henri and or Pierre Schaeffer, fathers of musique concrete? Some of their pieces took 6 months or more to create. Just a joy to listen to
@@Hainbach I really like this a lot. Thanks! There is an old album by the 60s psychedelic rock band Spirit that they did with Pierre Henri. Very dated but rather fun
I want to get into tapes and i baught a tapedelay to start off with. I want to make tapeloops by myself but ive heard commercial scissors cant be used. Do you know what scissors i should use? Ceramic should work, right? Thanks for the video and for the help :)
Thanks for the answer.A degausser is build in and a big problem is I wont get a splicing block in germany :( So ceramic should work because theyre anti-magnetic or am I missing something?
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Former-engineer-me cringes... Use a splicing block, especially for taping the bits together. Splice to leads so you can spool all tape onto an 'ashtray' rather than letting it run wherever. Never (ever) move the pancake without a reel underneath. But the most important of all... Always remember to degauss the tripod and the mic stand. ;-)
Thank you! I feel like I should make a part 2 after all the feedback I have gotten. And find a splicing block on eBay.
Pinned your post so others who might attempt this will see.
@@Hainbach That's what that little white thing on the lower right corner is, I'm 99% positive. That said, for this sort of thing, it's not that big a deal. Watch videos of the Dutch Masters working (there's a couple here on RUclips, and you'll see they just used scissors and scotch tape, and no splicing block at all. For "real" edits, if you're splicing a song or whatever, a much better technique is required, but for this sort of stuff, it's more like "YOLO!"
ruclips.net/video/1RjMuB8Qkd8/видео.html
Dude you have one perfectly good splicing block on the very top of your magnetophon... and you don't even realize that :)
A good splicing block with have a perfect channel where the tape seems to "snap" in nice and straight, and the taped splice will be perfectly aligned. There should also be a thin diagonal channel for a razor. There's not much use for them these days, but I still love tape.
"Stops the machines" Should be a merch T-shirt for sure :D Great Video.
agreed
Hainbach's shocked face
STOP ZE MACHINES!
Next time you get mad at your DAW, folks... watch and re-watch this ;)
I feel so lucky. The worst thing it can do is crash
11:06
First time i see Hainbach expressing real human emotions
Amazing video as always
I love how calm he remained, I learned a valuable lesson here. Great video indeed.
My heart started racing when I saw that happened. I almost yelled at RUclips "noooo! Turn it off, turn it off!"
AARGHH STOP STOP STOP THE MACHINES! - Someone needs to sample this.
so cute
cnwb sampled and composed as a full length track on my insta: stuck_on_planet_earth
Thank you for not editing out the goofs. It’s hard to learn without mistakes and seeing someone else make them helps others avoid.
Yeah, I have learned so much by stumbling through things. If I can help others through failing, it's a double win.
14:00 - "Honour thy error as a hidden intention" (Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt - Oblique Strategies)
14:10 that sincere laugh made me so happy and started my day on the right foot :)
Your pleasant surprise when you find out the cymbal is backwards is great. Thank you for sharing this without over-editing - so much more authentic
Thank you! It was a curious balance. I tried to keep it in the spirit of how it was created, without being boring. I cut about 25min of spooling back and forth, picking up dropped pieces of tape, searching for my demagnetizer, answering the door etc. Good to hear that the spirit of let's just do this is kept alive.
I felt the same! Was a great and real moment!
another inspiring video. Most of us would have gone mad when the machine pulled in the tape. But the serenity with which you react is also reflected in your music. thanks for the creative impulses
STAHP ZE MASCHINES!
Nice, Mr. H. Like you, I have some high-end tape machines and limited experience getting deep with them, like this. Best experiment was probably getting an old Telefunken answering machine loop to convert into a useful tape-echo reel without much mess (it was short). I have so much respect for the masters of this craft, Delia and all those who never received the recognition they deserved. Perhaps we can try to use one channel with a pulse recorded simultaneously (listening to it also in headphones), to sync a modular to the tape loop and hopefully make finding exact cut points easier. In a way, what they did back then with measuring tape and multiple pieces of the same note is easier...but there's nothing particularly easy about any of it. A real nail biter of an episode. Excellent work, and brave of you to share the journey with all of us.
My god! This is absolutely insane & incredibly difficult! Watching this, I was reminded of Perrey and Kingsley (among others with infinite patience and diligence from the period) and how they created practically all their music in the 60s and 70s this way - the only form of sampling. Amazing to watch this and think about how "electronic" musicians struggled before the advent of the digital age.
Oh yes! It was a very deliberate and painstaking process. Funny, right after uploading this I made a rather video/sound rhythmic piece that would have taken months back in the days. And it was three hours now.
My heart leapt to my throat as I watched you scramble to turn off the machine. I'm glad it didn't do any real damage. The music is sweet as usual. The backwards cymbal is thrilling.
I'm sorry to say, but the more you struggled, the more I enjoyed the video :) It hit close to home, and made me feel better about the growing pains of creating something. Can't wait for the next one!
Wow I haven't done that since college back in the early 80s. One of my first loop pieces was made from a recording of me playing my flute in a stairwell. It took me about a month to create. I still love the piece. You can get a splicing block for taping the pieces together. It makes it a lot easier
"Let's do the right thing and play it back at half speed!"
:D Priceless
Could be written on a t-shirt.
I know it's three years later now but I still must try this 🤩
An analog man in a digital world and it's amazing! Nice video, keep it like this.
really funny in a subtle way. a fascinating machine from the past. the sounds finally cuddling the soul as always. thank you hainbach !!!
The merch plug, the technical problems, the end result, what a ride that was, lol
I love the sounds made by the play head being in operation while you're pulling the tape around.
Working on a sample pack of tape sounds!
The physical aspect of tape- you running it around your door handle, draping it over the mic stand- is what makes it seem magic to me. It's something real, and can be manipulated in physical ways, interact with the world. You don't get much of that in a DAW, and it feels inspiring, somehow, to be reminded that music is still more than data
Terry Riley had his loops go out of the window in his yard spinning around bottles. The amount of patience a person has to have to create an album this way is dedication! Love to see you enjoyed this experiment very much. Tape splicers make it a tad easier, but yes mistakes will happen: )
So cool vid. I love that you chose to leave your mistake in the video.
Wonderful! Fascinating, informative and (very) entertaining at the same time. The result? Pure magic! Thank you.
The way how your reel to reel fast forwards sounds oddly futuristic. Almost like star trek. Great videos dude and keep on the tape recording
videos such as these reinforce what makes you a pleasure to watch! you are quite willing to show your mistakes and still make some beautiful textures in doing so
Thank you! This video showed me that I don't have to make a perfect presentation, but that documenting the process of discovery is interesting, too.
Hainbach is the master of ambient drones. This is really cool, but I fear if I bring home a giant tape machine home my girlfriend will kill me. Thank you for showing your mistakes and the process that you went through. Nobody is perfect and especially not these trolls in the comment section.
I want you to stay alive, so better get an UHER 😋. Comments are super today, already working on part 2 where I will combine what learned
@@Hainbach SUPER EXCITED FOR pt 2. Thank you for doing this. Im over here in California still trying to perfect my cassette loop skills. LOL. Just checked out the UHER and I think I found my next purchase. Perfect recommendation, thanks. Now instead of killing me, she's going to think I secretly joined the FBI and am wire tapping the neighbors apartment. Haha.
I couldn't justify the price or footprint of a reel to reel to my partener. I do collect lots of weird and wonderfull library and spoken word vinyl, though, which is great to manipulate by hand through pedal chains
"doing stuff like this on cassette, making your own loops pffff, I find that to be rather difficult..." YUP! haha, but might have to do a video like this using cassettes...
Oh yes, please do!
A video on splicing cassettes would be amazing, I don't even know where to start with something so fiddly.
@@HitmanJenkins1 you can start with this video - ruclips.net/video/hER3s1NPr_U/видео.html
I have made a couple of cassette loops, damn they're so fiddly. I find it impossible to do anything exactly. I have a couple of the common length easier ones and put industrial sounds on. The "bump" is clearly audible but goes well with the source material and gives e xtra texture. I embrace the random results and exploit them. Not everybodys cup of tea though. Kee up the good work Hainbach.
Reminds me of my youth. You can also have it pull from the center of the spool if you want. So fun
Lovely sounds, and the smoothest merch plug I've ever seen! :-P
Great work. I spent years editing 2” tape for clients and don’t miss it. Editing 1/4” tape for myself, however, is a lot of fun
i think you blew my mind with this. i previously thought tape was a waste of time but damn. the reversed cymbal is a thing of beauty, especially at half speed
As far as advice for you, try recording at double speed then when you play it back at normal speed you will hear the difference. I think it gives it a little bit more character. Plus u save tape
"I hadn't intended that, but it's lovely". I love how the backwards cymbal draws you in and very suddenly releases you.
11:42 dude!!!
Ian not laughing at your pain but with your pain.
That would be me there with the tape in the capstan only mine would have consumed the whole tape and somehow inexplicably catch fire.
At least I died laughing.
This has been amazing and takes care of some G.A.S. that I had 15 minutes ago. Now I am going to hug my Morphagene, my Phonogene, and my El Capistan, and my Volante.
Great video! So unique, I love the warmth it has. Now I want to try splicing!
Such patience you have.
Ha, not by nature! I trained myself hard to have patience by building model airplanes as a kid. There I learned that patience is rewarded, impatience leads to failure. Still, it's like my impatience is caged in a zoo.
That reversed cymbal at half speed sounds incredible
your videos always have a relaxing aura I think! I would love to have so much analog equipment, it sounds so fun. vst will never do that (luckily?)
„oh, merch!“😆 nice advertising technique!
"Now let's do the right thing and play it back at half speed" love it!
That was so awesome! Great sound and experimentation.
And just like that, Hainbach gets fired on his very first day at the Radiophonic Workshop.
i just love this guy, he inspires my videos for sure. can't wait to see more HAINBACH!
Very cool...such fun! Makes me want to edit some tape. Thanks for the inspiration.
Ha! That merch plug was great. Simple and to the point.
I shot a documentary recently at the rest of WDR STudio für elektronische Musik, with Volker Müller the sound engeneer, that worked there since 1972. And he used the old 50s/60s setup with three M15s for this. Pretty impressing, I got to jam on them during the breaks. He showed some pretty nice techniques. Can let you know when its finished!
Oh wow! I really need to see that!
Great video, I'm glad that the loop turned out so well.
a bit of advice for the initiated - store your loops tails out on small 5cm bobbins (small reels) for posterity and LABEL them with the date - you will be GLAD you did !!! i have several hundred of these from the 1980s
that pure joy at 14:11, I felt that :)
Awesome video! I don’t know if this was mentioned elsewhere, but when I was doing theatre sound with tape machines back in the 80s, I’d use a white grease pencil to mark edit points so I wouldn’t have to guess. Love your vids!
i love this. are cassettes the correct gateway drug into tape loops?
Absolutely! Cheap and cheerful. Many videos on that topic on my channel.
Well done Hainbach..very mellow loop. The reverse cymbal was a happy accident.
I haven't edited tape since I was in college in the 1980's, but I think you could be making it harder than it has to be. Normally, you would rock the reels back and forth manually as you dialed in an edit point. then you would mark it with a grease pencil so you know where you're going to make a cut. You would do that for both the beginning and ending of your edit segment before making any actual cuts. As others have mentioned, you would also want to lay the pieces of tape together in a splicing block while you tape them together. You could do your cutting there as well with a razor blade, although your built in cutting mechanism might be better.
Thanks for the tip! I did the manual rocking back and forth, but I neglected the marking. It's much easier that way, I agree. And I do absolutely need a splicing block. The tape fell down so often it was not funny anymore.
the cutting block on the bottom right of the machine has a channel in it for splicing the tape together
Thank you for sharing this wonderful technique 🙂 Dont have that fancy gear but gonna try it with a regular tape cassette and see how it will sound 💁♂️
Невероятно, вы удивляете каждый раз. Браво!
I can only read the last word, it's been too many years since I had russian. So, going only on the last word here, thank you!
@@Hainbach It's unbelivable, you amazing me every time. Bravo!
Thank you, very kind to translate.
So cool to try the old way! Wish I can do that ones, but man, what a work!
Bro, you made me lmfao! I just got a tape machine and this is going to be me soon. 😂
I am so happy to have found your channel. Your style of video making is so captivating and inviting. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity!
Thank you Joshua! Usually my videos are a bit more prepared, but it is great to hear that this more loose style of video is fun to watch, too.
I used to love my Revox B77 with optical sensor. When locating edit points i could manually shuttle the reels back and forth with my hands a bit like a dj with a record, making sure i kept tension between both reels.
Im not sure you can do that for yours because these reel to reel decks often employ quite strong clutches or brakes.
Love this though and very entertaining
‘STOP THE MACHINES!!’
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shuttling is possible, it's very fluent in that regard. Only gotten better at using that feature recently. 😊
Incredible as always. Looking forward to more in the future!
Fantastic. Sounded very Ambient 1 which is no bad thing!
I love Eno.
very funny in some moments (for me, I don't think it was for you). Good sense of humor, man!
that was great Hainbach, a lot of work but a great result, something tells me this took quite a while :-)
Am I the only person who would happily buy a Hainbach “stop stop stop the machines !!!” t-shirt ?
tonyisyourpal should say ”STAHP ZE MACHINES!”
Great video and great resultant tape loop!
Results were good.
Thank you immense interesting! I like the meta soundtrack with all the machine sound .... tape between fingers and so on
Yeah! Feel like I should make a sample pack just of machine sounds.
Man you are superb!... though... 11:58 LOL. Great stuff...
Watching this makes me think my Octotrack purchase a while back was a wise one
Do you do 5u Modular Paul?
So I look and learn what I can do with my old taperecorders, tapemachines and the tapeecho.
This was incredibly inspiring, great work!
Just happened to pick up an old tape machine yesterday, then I come here to find this. Serendipity!
RUclips is such a beautiful thing.
6:33 = Best rewind sound ever
Aahaha, 11:05 "Staph ze maschines" had me laughing 😂👍
Great and enjoyable video.
That was fantastic to watch
The reversed cymbal is a happy accident. Love it.
Sounds really nice!!
Dude I used to spend weeks doing this making rap beats. It would piss me off when nobody gave 2 shits about the difference of sound or the time it took everyone would just say " I think your mpc is messed up" !!! Haha regardless its awesome that you are messing around with tape it really does sound better than just using samplers to loop or even worse my ultimate hatred, fruity loops!!
Whenever I clean my cassette recorders, I use 91% isopropyl alcohol. I always avoid the pinch roller when cleaning because I’m afraid of drying it out. However, any time that I have attempted to clean them, there is always a nice brown coating of something that winds up on the q tip. Is this just dirt, or is this actually bits of the pinch roller being eroded from the alcohol?
Yeah, never use alcohol on rubber parts. I was only cleaning the capstan. The dirt is from the magnetic tape rubbing off.
Yeah, never use alcohol on rubber parts. I was only cleaning the capstan. The dirt is from the magnetic tape rubbing off.
Not sure if this is noted, and it's really not a big deal: when you're cleaning tape heads/mechanics with IPA, clean in a wiping in one direction fashion (left to right). You will risk scratching, and deforming your heads if you rub on your heads with a dirty/fluxy q-tip. It's not a big deal, but if you're using tape machines almost DAILY, you're going to wear those heads eventually.
Another great tip, thank you!
Amazing!😍😍😍
Immer wieder eine Freude :D
Can you please do a video on doing backwards effects on a reel? THanks
rarely do i hear the term "apothecary." super cool!
So so so dope!
you had a video with a spicing block. where did you purchase that?
Darklab in Germany
Do you have an album with just tape loops by chance?
Ambient Piano Works you might enjoy, it's on iTunes etc.
wonderful.
Really good!
How long have you been doing this video? For fun, not for an entire life, nice Hainbach, wie immer!
You could also make use of a yellow chinagraph (= wax) pencil to mark your edit points and number each piece of tape. Deffo recommend a splicing block to make sure the two ends of the tape butt up against each other. No overlaps, and no gaps otherwise tape adhesive will get on your heads and capstan. Use spools not pancakes, and rock both of them back and forth to get your exact edit point.
It used to be possible to get splicing tape pre-cut into 2cm lengths on a backing strip in a handy little dispenser cartridge. This is much easier for beginners to splicing/editing
Edit-All Tape Splicer - American Radio ...
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Thank you! I am not using pancakes but bobbies. They are superior to reels in that they have less drag, but you have the risk of the tape spooling off in transfer. You learn to live with that.
@@Hainbach I mean no offence to you but I was teaching tape editing to radio journalism students in the 80s. For editing music or speech it is much better to use fully enclosed spools. Pancakes or bobbies, you run a huge risk of (as happened in your vid) loads of tape falling of getting damaged, magnetised, snapped or sound quality degraded. Tip: use clothes pegs (Wäscheklammern) to attach your pieces of tape to some non-metallic string or washing line strung up from high points on walls, heads up (start of loop uppermost)
Pink Floyd and other such groups allegedly used a whole raft of microphone stands placed around the room to hold in position their tape loops. Ask Roger Waters, he'll tell you!!!!
Have you heard Pierre Henri and or Pierre Schaeffer, fathers of musique concrete? Some of their pieces took 6 months or more to create. Just a joy to listen to
Yes! Pierre Schaeffer blew me away when I first heard him. Though I prefer reading Schaeffer and listening to Halim El-Dabh now.
@@Hainbach I'll have to find halim. I don't know his work
Oh you will love it! Look for his early wire recorder works
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@@Hainbach I really like this a lot. Thanks! There is an old album by the 60s psychedelic rock band Spirit that they did with Pierre Henri. Very dated but rather fun
I want to get into tapes and i baught a tapedelay to start off with. I want to make tapeloops by myself but ive heard commercial scissors cant be used. Do you know what scissors i should use? Ceramic should work, right?
Thanks for the video and for the help :)
Get a splicing block and a razor blade, as well as degausser. Then you are set.
Thanks for the answer.A degausser is build in and a big problem is I wont get a splicing block in germany :(
So ceramic should work because theyre anti-magnetic or am I missing something?
You can buy a splicing block from www.darklab-magnetics.de/. Say hi from Hainbach, maybe someday I will get a discount :-)
degauss with tape on the machine????
This is an excellent video
Sounds lovely 😁 Shame about your splicing tape though! But at least you had a nice happy accident with the cymbal too.