Cool vibe. The thing with tape though is you need to hit it with hot input levels. I noticed your channel meters were rarely even bouncing at the lowest level. This caused your recording to have very little signal so you had to max out your L/R bus to get sufficient output. I hope in subsequent projects that you’re gaining up your inputs so they’re hitting +3 and occasionally +6. You can therefore mix your final master with faders relatively low or around unity and give you much better fidelity and way lower noise. Tape takes on a real unique character when slightly saturated but tape hiss should be minimized by the gain technique I mentioned. You’ll always have a bit of signature hiss but it should be way below the recorded content. Keep jammin bro👍🏼
Hey man love the vid! Can I ask how you got the mix to sound so wide? Was it just simply panning the parts equally hard left/right? I’m thinking of picking up the MK3 version of this, would you have a preference for either? Loving the warm analogue tones :)
I recorded one track in stereo and 2 solo tracks in mono panned hard left and right. If I remember it correctly, I also ran it through some mild delay/reverb which made the sound a bit more lush and stereo. I have only ever used this Portastudio so I can't really speak on preferences, but I think whatever model has the most control over tape speed would end up being the most fun for me! Hope you enjoy whatever you end up picking up :)
@@gregonater thanks so much for getting back man! Ah right, that makes sense! It just all works so perfectly. This may be a silly question but the did the stereo part that you recorded take up two tracks? And if so can you “bounce” these two tracks onto one track to save some space for further arrangements? Cheers :)
@@guitarguywill4157I did record the left and right panned parts to their own tracks, and I'm sure you could bounce them to another track but I'm not that good with tape so I wouldn't be able to tell you how haha
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Cool vibe. The thing with tape though is you need to hit it with hot input levels. I noticed your channel meters were rarely even bouncing at the lowest level. This caused your recording to have very little signal so you had to max out your L/R bus to get sufficient output. I hope in subsequent projects that you’re gaining up your inputs so they’re hitting +3 and occasionally +6. You can therefore mix your final master with faders relatively low or around unity and give you much better fidelity and way lower noise. Tape takes on a real unique character when slightly saturated but tape hiss should be minimized by the gain technique I mentioned. You’ll always have a bit of signature hiss but it should be way below the recorded content. Keep jammin bro👍🏼
Great demo, dude!
please get a type 2 tape!
I should definitely experiment with tape types!
@@gregonater No this unit NEEDS a Type II to work properly
Has this been recorded at the default speed? It sounds pitched down, and the pitch control knob is at its lowest setting.
I think I recorded it at the fastest speed and then pitched it down.
Hey man love the vid! Can I ask how you got the mix to sound so wide? Was it just simply panning the parts equally hard left/right? I’m thinking of picking up the MK3 version of this, would you have a preference for either? Loving the warm analogue tones :)
I recorded one track in stereo and 2 solo tracks in mono panned hard left and right. If I remember it correctly, I also ran it through some mild delay/reverb which made the sound a bit more lush and stereo. I have only ever used this Portastudio so I can't really speak on preferences, but I think whatever model has the most control over tape speed would end up being the most fun for me! Hope you enjoy whatever you end up picking up :)
@@gregonater thanks so much for getting back man! Ah right, that makes sense! It just all works so perfectly. This may be a silly question but the did the stereo part that you recorded take up two tracks? And if so can you “bounce” these two tracks onto one track to save some space for further arrangements? Cheers :)
@@guitarguywill4157I did record the left and right panned parts to their own tracks, and I'm sure you could bounce them to another track but I'm not that good with tape so I wouldn't be able to tell you how haha
I feel cheated ...had to pay for mine 😉
plugged in direct? reverb added in the effects loop or in the machine? sounds wicked!!
Plugged in direct and then tape machine plugged into my eurorack for effects if I remember correctly!