Most Powerful Cassette Recorder on Earth!
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Is this Portastudio the best Analog home studio recording device ever made? Is it the most rare, and the most flexible? With eight recordable tracks, grouping, phantom power, 8 preamps, all kinds of routing, and more, the Yamaha Mt8xii might be the best Cassette Recorder Ever made. Let's find out.
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The Yamaha MT8x2. This thing sounds clean as heck. With the DBX turned ON (Yes I'm breaking all the rules), it sounds super duper clean. Drums sound punchy, there is almost no audible hiss, phantom power makes my u87 clone sound super pristine. It's kind of almost like recording to digital. With analog features. It's like an anlog digital hybrid.
Because you don't get a super amount of sponginess. As you will notice, it does not compress the way a tascam 388 compresses, or how a squashed portastudio compresses. BUT it has more of an analog vibe than a lame plugin. Those plugins never sound right to my ears. This thing has a really interesting sound. It's not as colored as a tascam portastudio.
You might argue that there's no point in using this machine, because in Today's age if you are recording to tape you want to get real legit colored analog sounds. You might be right. But historically speaking this is a pretty impressive engineering feat for an analog cassette machine. This must have been really impressive at the time. It sounds straight up crystal clear. Dawless, Braless, and flawless. Not bad, Yamaha!
If this machine was fully functional, I would be WAY more jazzed about it. But this has got one of the most messed up intermittent temperamental motors I've ever dealt with. It messed my pocket all up. Recording was difficult because the pocket and rhythm drove me crazy.
What do you think?
#dawless #cassette #analog
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Better than the TASCAM 688 MIDISTUDIO ? Sacrilege 😮😳
@@djgeorgieporgie7862 no offense to all the 688 lovers but that thing is too nerdy even for me
The chaotic energy this video manages to have while still managing to be informative is really impressive
i hope you were for the new york times
Watched for the world's most powerful cassette recorder. Stayed for the world's most entertaining jump cuts...
i just had to look up what a jump cut was. turns out i invented it back in 1972. thanks rook!
This brings back memories. I had a Tascam 8 Track where I'd record a sync signal on CH8 and slave my old Roland MC500 sequencer. Done wonders with so little!!
Sounds fancy! I like it
just subbed because of your edit skills and humor, hahaha
Welcome aboard Dolleman! some people tell me how much they hate it lol
I owned one of these from '97 till '05. I think half the appeal of these is the ease of use. I often use simple 3 band EQ in Ableton to get a similar level of simplicity. If I roll off the top end and use a tape simulator, I can get a similar sound to the MT8X. Still, the MT8X is more grungy!
very cool andy!
I used to bounce background vocals to cassette with Dolby OFF, then sample them from there to get that airy sound.
that sounds cool napynap! i'll check that out
I own Portastudio 488mkii and I love it. Like you said, there no point to use this kind of recorder today. But I don't know why I always come back to it. I like the picthcontrol, i like the little flickering, I don't even use DBX, etc... :)
i'm living the past. gotta have me that analog sound Yoann! i love that pitch control too
@@travisraab Me too! Sure I will do some more analog recording.
Have one,still use it,great old machine.....
I love the fact that you were like “I’m so fucking tired and I don’t want to do it again.” Subbed lol
Thanks man thats the type of excellence I deliver
@@travisraab lol. Keeping it real.
I own an old tascam 424 portastudio I bought with my graduation money, that's when I learned the difference between high bias, and non high bias cassettes. It always had a warm sound, unlike my modern digital 2488 neo. Man did I have fun trying bounce as many tracks as I could on to only 4. We are spoiled nowadays.
Maybe one day they'll say "you had to actually play your instrument back then? I just program it with my computer which has every sound known to man"
I also had one.
Can confirm tempo drifting.
On my so much I sometimes need to turn off and on because the pitch shift was making it impossible to double track guitars etc.
wow that's a couple now who have mentioned tempo drift. i had no idea it was a common issue among these and it's not just this machine.
It's a crime this man only has 4.7K subs.. I've been looking for a channel like this for years im telling ya!
Very cool to hear! Thanks for being here 😊
The rest of us oldies cannot handle the supercuts.
Truth
I own something very similar to that which I’ve been using the last 22 yrs. It’s the Yamaha MD8 digital multitrack MD recorder.
oh that's a cool machine. i'd love to mess around with one of those. people seem to love them
I have the minidisc version of this and I will never go back to using computers for music
really? does it sound better>
@@travisraab better than tape Idk but definitely better than PCs
I didn't realize how similar (form and features) the MT8x2 is to the MD8, which is the minidisc version..technically for 8 tracks it uses MD Data which are rewritable minidiscs with 140 mins rather than 74/80 . I'll stop before this rollercoaster of multitrack fun goes off the rails though
@@djmattpositive yeah that's a cool looking machine the md8!
@@travisraab on the whole, I think the MD 8 multi tracks can be found in much better condition and for 1/4 the cost of it's cassette cousin
I do find on these older tape machines you have to stretch the tape before you record. Fast forward it to the end the rewind it all the way again and that will help fix the tape drift or warble.
This brings back so many memories of the mid-90s! Just seeing the buttons and faders made me smile, awesome video!
thanks shy maronic!
Tascam 488 MkII was the best damn multi-tracker I ever used.
id like to mess with one of those!
This guys quality is great, deserves more subs but no doubt hes gonna get em soon 📈
thanks so much!
Dude your performance was spot on!!
I had a teacher like this in high school . . . it was the only class I didn't skip out of . . .
only thing missing is the handlebar moustache
I've got one of these in the loft. Awesome multitrack, had it for about 20 years now. I recorded a couple of albums on it back in the early 2000's, so easy to use and a great overall sound, I always used TDK SA 90's for recording. I use a DAW these days but I still miss the days of cassette based recording, you've got to be a lot more inventive when you've got limited recording technology. These days everything is just a click of the mouse away. Also got a Yamaha MD8 and a Tascam 464 as well keeping the MT8X company in the loft! Great video, thanks for posting it. Nice to see some people still have an interest in cassette multitracks.
your loft is epic
@@travisraab Thanks.
I was born in '69 and discovered music in or around '76. There were reel-to-reels and vinyl records but as I entered my teens none of my friends wanted to lug a moving crate full of records or reel-to-reels to teach others house for music listening sessions. Enter the glorious cassette magnetic tape. Oh me Oh my. What glory.
So much easier to pack around 60 cassettes in a briefcase style tape holder. Who can forget rewinding with a Bic pen? You know what I'm talking about.
Mix tapes? I was the king of splicing and looping cassette tapes. I also had a little cheapass 4 track recorder probably gifted to me from my parents who bought it from Sears for 99.99 CAD.
Now, almost 40 odd years later and a studio full of synths and controllers and MIDI gear and wires and mixers and you know what I'm talkin' about, I want to get back into playing and making music with cassette tapes.
Thanks for the reminder.
Great video.
Keep on rockin in the free world.
i love your story derrick! thanks for sharing
Had one of these, lots of fun!
Being able to record drums on the 4 first tracks (kick, snare, toms/cymbals stereo)
And then STILL (!!!) have 4 (!!!) tracks left for bass, guitars and vocals was just amazing
I got one of these from a polka hall of fame inductee, it rules so hard, despite the hiss, harmonics, crust, etc, it sounds like whatever you record is RIGHT THERE IN THE ROOM
Best news I've heard
I find that recording percussion and drums on cassette gives it a sound that stands out better... ☮️🔥
It does! I agree
Another fun video! You're making me nostalgic for my Fostex X18 though... 25 years gone but not forgotten.
Thanks Sanger! fostex x18 i'll have to check it out
@@travisraab it's pretty basic! Man I loved it though
Did you check the switches to make sure they're armed to accept the audio on tracks 7 and 8?
New tape is truly new, but only made by two companies (reel to reel is made by RTM and ATR, with a few more manufacturers making cassettes). Cassettes aren’t as good as they used to be; you can only find type 1 or type 2, but they’re still made.
I’ve been using a 1/2” 3M M23 4-track reel to reel + reduction mixes for a while, but finding one of these would be sweet for demos, lo-fi stuff, or even just to saturate stuff. Really cool piece of tech you found!
The drums sounded awesome! (More details please!)
My band had four of these. We loved them. They served us well until we switched to DAW’s around 2001.
oh man that's cool! very cool to hear. cool machine it is
I would have KILLED for something like this back when I was a kid. I was always modding tape recorders, trying to improve them or add new features.
what kind of mods
@@travisraab All kinds of things, like adding a variable speed control, adding sound on sound, even replacing the internal recording circuits with something better.
that was a genuine journey through your entire brain and an absolute masterpiece!
5:52 note to self: learn to play this piece of music
I have the Yamaha MT4x; similar except 4 tracks. It is a very clean almost digital sounding machine. Very different from the tascam sound.
would you say it's better or worse? I want to get my drumsamples to sound vintage I am thinking of getting a multitrack recorder to record to casette.
@@hansmemling2311 I have the Tascam 234, And I'd describe it's sound as hazy, saturated, colored. Maybe a 1970s Deep Purple or Black Sabbath character. The Yamaha MT4x is cleaner, crisper, probably more like a 90s Blur or Oasis. I love the way drums sound on the Tascam 234. I also greatly prefer the workflow on the Tasacm simple and intuitive. If I a haven't used the Yamaha in awhile. I have to watch a tutorial video to remember how it works. Perhaps that's indicative of more routing capabilities. Check out some videos of the models you're interested in, and that will give you an idea of the drum sound character. Ultimately the best 4 track cassette is one that works, and can still be serviced obtain parts for. It's tough to find people that can repair them so that should be considered as well. Maybe experiment with cassette software emulations 1st, before buying a deck.
Getting pretty sick, like awesome.. everytime I buy a new synth 😂 have fun!
haha
I thought your groove was fine ... kinda perfect ... kinda vibed.
you are kind you flatter me
Love the DBX sound-put those meters in the RED..1st 4 track was a MT1X..Have a MT4X now on a slide out shelf.Still put the Denon tapes in it once in a while.30+ years later,Denon tapes still sound great and were well worth the money...Me and a buddy did a lot of Analog recording at 1 time.Used the direct outs in the back to go to my interface..And saved a lot of good memories to digital..Hope you can Fix channels 7&8..Sometimes simple really is better...Really enjoyed your video.Understood that Joy when you showed us what you had..Best Regards...👍👍
very cool. thanks barflew!
Nice Video!!!! I like your music!!! I used the Tascam 424 from like 1990 through to 2000??? till I finally got a Roland Digital Recorded. Had many good times with all of that cassette recording, You could get a level of distortion on the tape.
Very cool! 424 is a cool machine as well
Quite a learning curve on this machine..
yup haha
It really sounded warm and comfortable 👍
Glad you like it coop414
Wanna hear something kinda amusing? So I got a Tascam 488S/H so kindly gave my older brother my tasty old Tascam Porta 5! Few weeks later he visited me winging about how "when you turn the tape over it just makes a racket"! Went to try and explain you DONT turn the tape over but he just winged and said "It doesn`t matter" like HIS feelings where hurt! Thicker than a bucket of rocks that guy!
haha
I'm 57 years old we grew up with those you guys nowadays are spoiled with the easy friendly recorder.lol
I had one of these way back. Wish I would have kept it.
easy come easy go
Those are awesome! If that's a Tascam 388 Porta studio behind you, could you please do a video demonstration? 👍🙂
Take a look around my channel man!
7:05 I honestly don't know what you're whining about :D sounded fine to me 👌 also, there are people like my cousin (he loves abstract electronic music) who just love irregular and/or hard to follow rhythms. So if you really feel like you can't pass your song on as being "pop" you could always send the tape as a mixtape to some obscure label or something 😁
Great video btw dude! Loved it ✌️
Cassette tapes are still made/sold in Japan because there are so many older people still jammin'
i should move there
Sounded really great, man. Clean but warm.
Much appreciated, Richard!
Great little jams man. 🤘
I still have my old Korg-4track cassette recorder! I now use 2-2488 tascam recorders! Fun thanks!
that 2488 looks fun! i wonder how the converters are
@@travisraab audio converters are good for a little 2488 recorder! Can get muddy if you try mixing to much stuff together! But you can mix down and bounce tracks and come up with some pretty incredible sounding music! Thanks!
Technically the Tascam 688 is superior as it can record 8 simultaneously tracks all at once as this one only records 4 at a time. Still really really fun and it sounds amazing! I have both and find the Yamaha MT8XII is faster and easier to use. I have made more music with the Yamaha although the 688 can sync up to another machine or even multiple 238’s!! Tascam, ATR, and RTM all have or still make new high bias cassettes that sound amazing! A trick though, ;), is to use good old tape like scotch or type 1 as it will saturate easier and you can get some really cool vibes... welcome to 8 track cassette recording! Cheers!
You are next level! I love it
I loved opening a new TDK SA90 back in the day.
there is no greater feeling, sharon
Good stuff. I also liked the Yamahas a little more than the tascams.
they clean!
That was great. Love your videos and tunes man!
thanks so much niall!
that looks fun like have own mini house just for music-so cool
that part that said sounded bad i thought sounded good like so nice and 80's or 70's pleasantness tune to it nice and nostalgic except better
Most Powerful Cassette Recorder on Earth? It's a great one for sure, easily among the top 5 cassette multitrackers ever made, but I'm afraid the #1 spot goes to none other than the Tascam 688 Midistudio. Still enjoyed the video, though. :)
🙏
Tascam 688 has poorer fidelity than a 4 track recorder
@@user-gq6sf4si6j Really? Funny, when the band White Town used one to record their song "Your Woman", it sounded pretty high-fidelity to me.
Yeah what made me get the Tascam 688 wad the fact that it could actually record all 8 channels at the same time. Most other 8 track portastudios only recorded maximum of 4 channels at the same time so you HAD to do overdubbing if you wanted to record more than 4 channels at the same time. And i needed to have at least 6 channels. The 688 is also the BIGGEST and heaviest machine and certainly not a "Porta" studio x3 And the channel routing matrix really requires Neuron levels over 9000 to actually understand it.
I had one of those through a trade and then sold it. It sold very quickly, and the guy was stocked to get it.
easy come easy go!
the prob with those 8 track cassette recorders (whether Tascam or Yamaha or anyone else) is that they partitioned the tape so heavily that they suffer from noticeably reduced dynamic range vs the 4 tracks. It's literally impossible for them not to have reduced dynamic range.
yeah true. but i mean you're listening to it right now. do you notice that it has reduced dynamic range?
We can’t compare these to what we have today. But, there was a time when we were buying albums on cassette. No one complained about the dynamic range. It was two track stereo, but we thought they were great. Also, these tape decks didn’t have any of the many issues that we battled when we first started using computers. Hit record and go.
What we have now is a lot better, but the MT8X at that time allowed us to step into the recording world which was very enjoyable. 🎧
@@mafronverizonnet Again, a standard cassette had four lanes of tape, right/left side A, and right/left side B. A 4 track multi used all four lanes (effectively "side A, 4 channels"), so no inherent degradation in quality as the tape lanes were the same size as a standard cassette. An 8 track, however, further split each each of those lanes in 2, giving physically less space on tape for each lane of encoded audio. I switched from a Tascam 464 to 488 mk2 in the 90's and the 8 track had a noticeably duller sound (with the dbx making it even worse). Frequency response of 40 Hz ~ 14 k Hz on 8 and 20 Hz ~ 20 k Hz on the 4. That's a big difference, and those specs are being kind to the 8. And I had to constantly degausse the 8. Don't get me wrong, having 8 tracks in a portable, easy to maintain unit was amazing, but the 4 tracks were around many years while the 8 tracks were short-lived before digital recording made them obsolete. I started with a Yamaha MT 4 track and found that the 464 sounded just as good. But the 488, no. I can't believe that Yamaha found a way around the inherent limitations of lack of tape real estate. I've still got both Tascams because I have so many tapes I still haven't got around to digitizing, but an iphone makes a much better dawless multi-tracker these days.
That makes sense. Limits... always limits...
@@alexwestconsulting hey, what app you would recommend for iphone?
The Tascam 688 is bigger and better. I've had mine for 30 years and it still works and sounds awesome.
It is bigger. It may still work. But that machine is my nightmare.
The Yamaha MT series is awesome. I used an MT2X for 10 years, it sounded amazing. I upgraded to a Fostex 8 track, and things sounded worse as a result. 😀 I think the Yamahas imposes a sound on everything that makes it really easy to mix, without making it sound cheap.
I love your performance travis ..
thanks!
@@travisraab Dude is it better than the tascam 246??? I mean Yamaha's machine?
haaa...when you talk & work You like a country man!. Do you?
This is pure genius, That demo you recorded was killer, Is this track available for download?
thanks Joe! I think I'm gonna spend a day and make all my youtube songs available on spotify if there's enough interest.
Awesome and then some. Back in the 80s I the Yamaha MT2X and remember reading about the MT8X in Recording Magazine. The MT2X was a great machine and I imagined what I could do with the MT8X. The 2X was a 4 track with a 6 channel mixer. I had the MIDI module and would sync it up with a Rolland 626 or an 808. Good times. A friend of mine owned a music store and was friends with Fran Cosmo. Fran traded in his MT8X and my buddy gave me first dibs on it. Fran used it to make demos before he joined Boston. Unfortunately, I had fallen on hard times and was unable to buy it. That year I sold all of my gear to make ends meet. The MT8X is a bitter sweet memory.
whoa! quite a tale. you've had all the gear
@@travisraab Well, I wouldn't say all. In the 90's I went through a nasty divorce and sold everything. The one of a kind Hamer Chaparral Custom, the 1960 Ampeg B15-XY and all the other trinkets that I had collected since 1976. I never went back to recording. Now days I work for the phone company and play in a band on the weekends. Come to think of it, I've never owned a wah pedal... that may be next.
Thanks for your video i have 2 of these machines but long story short i started with a teac A108 sync in 79 next 144 next 244 next fostex m80 next x15 fostex next mt3x next mt8x get the picture well it all went well until Crash i got the AW4416 yam expensive £2000 and digital !!! I wasted 2 years trying to get through the menu and virtually recorded no ideas 😫 so sold for £500 got the Tascam dp24.i like this ! In the meantime ive picked up s/h a Tascam 244 , a 424 mk1 and 2 mt8x mk1 mk2 , so the good years for me were the analog years , with all these tapes i still have ive been surprised at the sound quality but mainly the fun involved in creating and developing the tape recording Art , is it just me or did the transition to digital not suit all types of people i do have Dyslexia and wondered if this hasn't worked with the digital age , programming is again a no no , any experiences like this from anyone ?
Ahhh....man that was a beast... miss it and also the tascam ones i owned...
you had a lot fo these huh
I still have my Tascam 688 eight track recorder. It was great 30 years ago.
very cool!
wow, I had one of those in early 1990's. Loved it!
Very cool!
fun video. the pacing feels frantic and great. its inspiring to see your process and hear this stuff too.
Glad you enjoyed it John!
I have a Yamaha 4 track cassette with dbx. It sounds wonderful.
very cool, beezlybud!
I used to record into DAW dry and add the effects after unlike old take recording where to try to reproduce the sound you want to tape but now I tried to get the sound and record that and use the powerful digital options to clean up and edit I think that's best
I actually remember this being advertised in Guitar mags back when. lol
I used to read those guitar mags in the 90s. I couldn't even play guitar
@@travisraab That's when I remember seeing it... Maybe 80s but late. I was a young player and of course I wanted it. I wanted everything I saw in those mags. One of my favorites at the time was the Carvin catalogue. I'm not proud of it but I would sit for hours lusting over the equipment and instruments in it.
This was an awesome video Travis. You're freakin hilarious. I love the drum sound you got. Was that all the 57 on the snare and a bass drum mic? I've recorded quite a bit with the mt4x over the years and have always loved the sound of dbx on it as well for whatever reason. I usually use either my tascam 488 or marantz pmd 720 these days to record. Thanks for the video.
I've always wanted to mess with a tascam 488. Very cool. No that was a shure Beta 52 on the kick
I like this type of "experiment" videos of You, sooo fun!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 It must be a very enriching experience to be able to use all that classic equipment you have, congratulations!!!
thanks Juan. i dont use this stuff hardly enough at all. im gonna sell it all lol
@@travisraab At least you have the experience left and if you can earn more money, the better!
A while back, I got one of these for free. I haven't tried it out yet.
oh nice congrats, joey
Reel to reel machine
Had an amazing sound
Recording Guitar.
I yet i had to appreciate
That i was one of a few
Who could hear that
any plans on acquiring a independant reel to reel...seeing as you already record on 388. #4comparisonsake #thanks
it would prob sound a lot cleaner to have a wider tape! maybe someone will donate one idk lol
Sounded really great.
The chords on the wowow guitar mmmmmmmmmm so gooooodddd
thanks that's the real mccoy wah wah!
The performance was alright man! xD
you're too kind, javier!
Nice surprise to see a Michael Joly mic out in the wild! I have 3 pairs of his mics - MK319s, M179s and Apex 205s. A real shame he gave up the mic modding business.
yeah I realized i have 2 hulks. It still sounds really good to me.
Its been two years. How many songs have u recorded on it?
not enough. want to buy it?
Is that the one with the goofy power supply? I think I have one laying around with no power supply
power supply is built right inside! lucky you all you probably need as a universal cable
@@travisraab Haha not quite, Its a super odd shape. I saw the power supply alone sell for 150 bucks
its not universal? crap. it's just a cable
@@travisraab So I just looked at it and its a tascam. Theres a 4 pin connector thats shaped unlike any plug I have ever seen before.
@@RickDrift so it's not this machine? if it's a tascam, you can find the same power supply by googling the model number.
Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 Intro for the win 🔥🔥 🙏
I'd recommend retro style media they make tapes brand new only for £1 or $1 each
How would this compare to a Tascam 688?
the tascam 688 is incredibly lame lol. I'm half joking. some people love that machine. and some of us think it's ridiculously nerdy, enormous, with complicated digital routing that destroys the point of using an analog machine. i think sonically it's supposed to sound good but i really don't care.
@@travisraab really ? I’ve heard nothing but good things about it in terms of the sound when running stuff through it and back into a daw etc
@@saren6538 like I said, maybe it sounds great. Seems like an unnecessary behemoth for that simple function.
I used a Tascam 488 MkII 8 Track Cassette portastudio for years in the 90s, still got it, I recorded a lot of stuff with that thing, but was glad when DAWs came later, digital was king lol... It's just nostalgia i think, but that tape saturation, and DBX had it's place for sure. 😉👌
yeah using a computer is a lot easier lol
To track down pitching issues you can use an oscillator app. Fire that onto each track and playback into something like Audition. Use the spectral display and you will visually see what the tape is doing to your signal. Guaranteed, there will be nothing good about it.
sounds fancy
@@travisraab Um. It's a perfectly normal diagnostic for checking a recording set up. It's why all studio masters in the old days used to carry a 1kHz sine tone at 0dB on a leader. So the playback machine could be calibrated to account for tape speed variation when cutting. If you do identify slowdown, then it's probably to do with the tensioning of the tape spooling, or possibly a slipping capstan. All fixable.
Thanks for the video! I have found a YAMAHA MT8X first version. I want to try to record a blues trio in cassette. Do you recommend to buy Yamaha mt8x first version ?
It might be cool! It it's cheap sure. But I think it has less dynamic range than a 4 track.
@@travisraab thanks so much!
@@quieora1789 nessun problema
I just got the 4track version, I also think I'm stupid because I completely forgot how to use theses things. Any tips?
I would def download manual and follow it!
Getting a mt4x tomorrow hopefully it works lol
it shall work. i know it
They're Good Recorders..👍
I had the TASCAM 388 in my studio years ago - it was a beast for it's time! - miss it
it truly is a beast. not portable, bill!
I have an MT4x but the lid won't close when I put in a tape!! I had someone look at it and we couldn't figure it out. I won't give up on her
duck tape?
@@travisraab might be sensor error I'm thinking. I will report back
saw one of those at local guitar store. they had a couple of similar ones. yes, they are totally cool. I like to record to tape...
cool, richard!
Yamaha gear was ALWAYS solid. I have an MT8X mk1. Excellent unit. The MK2 is pretty rare..
everyone keeps commenting that the 8 track cassettes were compromises and that yamaha only went down to 40hz and dbx sucks... i mean who cares? it's all about what our ears tell us. my ears tell me that there is very little compression happening, that the kick and bass tones are really nice, and that just by using the full range of the eq i was able to get a happy mix.
I had the mt-6x for years - it was awesome. Still love the sound of those analog tape recordings... pity the recording gear I was plugging into it was so bad (not to mention my playing in the olde days... 😞 ) but the recordings were great fun...
never heard of that ! the search begins, stuey....
Getting 8 tracks onto a 1/8" piece of tape running at 3.75ips comes at a massive sacrifice of fidelity. Some people like that. I used to have the rackmounted 388 Syncassette back in the 90's before going to ADATs and then ultimately a DAW. With great power becomes great responsibility - and when people tracked to tape the tendency wasn't to overcorrect performances. That, to me, was the advantage. It certainly wasn't the dynamic / frequency range.
Even if ther song was werid the sound was fcking ace man. Keep that thing. It is wonderful for drums and synths.
Thanks HR!
@@travisraab Im replying to the wrong comment, but look for video called "Dimebag Darells wild guitar philosophy" Knowing the instrument is much better then knowing a lot of music theory. The ones I know who have studied music all sound the same , like a typical guitar teacher in any city in the world.
@@hrorm that's your opinion not a fact lol. I've studied and I sound good..
Hey @travisraab love this video!
Did you record the drums with just a sm57 on the snare and a bass drum mic and no overheads? And then record the whole track on the mt8xii?
I’m currently recording with one of these things and love your sound. Not sure if it’s possible to use the DAW to bounce tracks and then get more than 8 tracks.
Just kic and snare mics. I didn't do any bouncing to daw to get extra tracks.yes You can do that on any tape recorder.
THIS machine almost became my very first Cassette Multitrack machine. But sadly someone else bid higher than me lol... (BASTARD xD) but at least i ended up with a Tascam 688 shortly after. The Seller was incredibly friendly and i even got the remote control addon for it as well. But my god... the routing matrix is super difficult to use so i really much more enjoy the more simpler 8 track machines such as this one by Yamaha. Also i really love your Barn Studio.
I sold the MT8X (original version) on Ebay in 2020. Hadn't used it for anything but a mixer since maybe the year 2004, and stopped using it as a mixer in around 2006.
you have the timeline memorized ! I believe you
Please tell me how 8 track works. To me it doesn’t make sence, there are only four ”tracks” on the tape
Top secret engineering!