I haven't used a Tape splicer for years ... I'd like to to say "good memories" but to be honest, I'm so glad those days are, well gone - for me at least. Now the studio uses (32 track hardware recording) PCM multi track up to 192kHz and DSD to SSD, and of course DAW recording into the Mac from the desk - all seamless from hardware to software ... Though I'll admit Reel to Reel looks VERY cool especially pimped out machines 😂
It drives me crazy that you didn't clean the machine before putting on the new reels .. 🤯 .. anyway great video as always .. love the analogue content. :)
Nice to see someone getting so excited about 1/4" tape these days. Somewhere in storage I have a large quantity of BASF 7" and 10" spools of Long Play and Double Play tape. Been wondering what to do with it for years.
Younger I was also working with Studer at a major radio station in Montreal for 27 years. I think what's still working today. I made the cuts of the tape, with a razor blade. You make me laugh so much when you get a new box, you breathe it, I do the same thing. I have nostalgia for the analog. thank you Doc
I recently acquired an old Sony reel to reel. I’m actually super impressed with the sound quality! I also purchased the splicing tools. I think I’m gonna make a dj mix with this 👍👍
Your voice is one of those you forget how much you love when its been a while, like with Matt Shultz, the lead singer of cage the elephant, I realize I love it after hearing it.
I enjoyed the video and congratulations on the updates-very cool. I am sorry to say, we both have a similar sense of humor😊-my poor wife. My first reel-to-reel of that size was a Sears Silvertone (early to mid-1960’s). It was no Studer but I had a lot of fun with it.
hi have a otari my self did not have the space for this model you are right it sounds ace my otari mtr takes 1/2 tape and at the time i came into 100 used once zonal tapes lost for words otari decks are about the same it's down to spare i can change over to 1/4 1/8 tapes 1/8 is play back and record from start to end as tape is thin i have to change rollers over as well when change size of the tape and tenson as well love the way you come over
Aw yea! Gotta love tape! I'm privileged enough to own a Studer Revox A77. My band doesn't have a drummer at the moment so we pre-record the drum tracks to it and use it at gigs. Just a shame the cast frame weighs a ton.
Wooow. I worked in radio station on the Philips with 6 heads, looks similar like N4450. There was 2pcs, we do various magic but my favorite magic is echo simulation in live program. The best one.
ATR also still make tape, but the point is still valid, if you want decent fresh tape there are not a lot of choices, you're probably purchasing from RTM or ATR
Recapping is one thing to get the refreshed renewed performance you are looking for out of any high end machine. Your ears will love it. That is a bombass machine. Studer A-80, is an explanation really necessary? Only if you don’t know reel to reel from jack! If your recording that from CD to reel, hope you have a really great CD transport and outboard D/A converter. I was thinking Meridian. Really nice stuff. Regardless, I like what I was hearing off that CD. I like that music anyway. Enjoy it guy because A80s are not too plentiful in pristine condition!😁🥰
You obvious you are a pretty stylish dude, and it stands to reason a couple of cool looking anodized reels were in your future. I put red and purple anodized reels on my NAGRA T audio with timecode. It is beautiful, and I feel your upgrade. Nice!
What I notice mostly is the change in texture in the mids.. it sounds creamy and "glued" together. Top end becomes rounder, low end becomes more compact.
This is awesome! As much as I love the new advantages brought by digital recording, there's just something about analog recording that makes it very special
As a Studer A-80 owner: some of the tape guide bearings are noisy and, after you already used some Ampex stuff, you‘ll have to align the machine to the RTM tapes. Nevertheless the A-80 sounds awesome anyway. Little advice: put a ppm meter ( RTW or ATP ) in the input chain to obtain the optimum record level for the machine. 😀
I'd love to see the inversion comparison between tape and source, like you demonstrated for MP3 in the video you made about the inversion technique. It can be hard to tell what's really there and what's placebo, seeing you switch between the sources like that. So it'd be neat to see/hear the empirical difference between the two.
Them Detroit boys used to splice there tapes and put the 909 drums backwards...........Track you played reminds me of Nuyorican Soul /Rotary Connection 😎
Oh my Darwin! I love your music Claudio-Dr. Mix! Your videos and your team are amazing! I’m a Mexican producer living in Japan and I enjoy every day your videos while I’m on the crowded trains in Tokyo. I’m very glad I found your channel. I produce all my music with Reason, Logic and the Arturia collection. I wander if you can make a video about Reason 10. All the best Claudio!!!
Claudio, spero che mi perdonerai la scurrilitá, ma sei un cazzo di MITO per me!!! Grazie Claudio, grazie di tutta questa cultura, di tutta questa conoscenza!! Sei un faro per ogni tecnico del suono che abbia ancora un minimo di interesse nel fare musica come una volta, con difficoltá, con sforzo, ma con risultati che al solo pensiero fanno venire la pelle d’oca!! E pensa che io ho soltanto ventisei anni, ma la musica come la si faceva, come la si produceva una volta, per tutta quella che ho ascoltato, non potrá mai essere la stessa di adesso, MAI!! Suonare insieme a Steve Gadd posso solo immaginare che onore dev’essere stato!! Grazie ancora Claudio, grazie di ogni magnifico video postato!!! Ti seguiró sempre! ❤️
Woow! Awesome video! Nice recorder and tapes! Only... I think it would have been nice to use command/control Solo button, instead of clicking Mute one by one, that way there would be no pause between switching tracks. But I love all you do anyways, so... keep it rolling! ;)
Awesome (just added Urban Sessions to my Apple Music too - absolutley love it). I would love to know how you guys run all of your outboard gear in your studio!
hi big boy in a toy shop i have a otari mtr 12 my self the pancakes you got are very likely for 12 inch reels i like otari unit's be could i can change to 1/2 inch tapes on my unit
Where are the electronics for the tape machine? That's a pretty risky way of loading a pancake reel. Points off for not using a splicing block and a fresh razor blade but at least you are using RTM instead of ATR. That piano with the synth setup is pretty rad would like to know more about that.
i would have imagine that the color of tape recording was from recording analog to it or at least to play tape back a without digital chain. What s your sampling rate then when you record it back digitally, do you oversample ?Thanks
I used to repair and line-up these machines, including A800 2" tape machines. Sham you use the fixed blade to cut your tape and not an aluminium block stuck to the deck offering 45° and 90° edits with a free single-edged razor blade, pizazz personified Claudio. With your ears surely you can hear a 45° edit, there's a good example on the beginning/end of Pink Floyd's The Wall. BTW have you checked the safety mods for the A80? Some of the wires that supply the motors can be loose enough that they get chaffed by the exposed rotating part of the motor inside.
If you're just spooling tape from one spool to another, why run it across the head and capstan section? I would think that would increase wear and tear on all components involved.
Perfect opportunity to invert the phase of one of the audio files, keep both tracks perfectly time aligned, bring up the fader gradually of one track while the other is playing. Then you can hear EXACTLY what the tape machine has done because all of the identical waveforms in each track will cancel each other out due to phase cancellation, leaving just the extra added enhancements created by the tape machine coming out of the monitors. The thing is, it's probably too subtle for people brought up on a diet of dubstep and trap :(
That Urban Sessions album really is so damn good!!! I listen it on Tidal now, for days. The playing of all instruments are incredible good and you can hear very good who's playing the key's;-). Also the mixing and mastering is fabulous. I can't sit still when I listen it. Are there new albums coming in the future? Also listened to your own album "After Hours Ritual feat. Dave Weckl & John". This is you or am I wrong? Anyway, thanks for sharing all the good stuff and I hope you will keep doing this for a long time. I didn't play music for a long time but seeing the fun you have in playing gave me inspiration and set up my gear again and am busy to setup my Mac again to play some music again. And I love Reel to Reels😍.
hi cool lot out there i got hold of some btacam sp betacam digi decks i will say they can be used as audio masters as there's at of new old stock about wow the old betacam can kick the behide of alot of reel to reel decks i have 35 year old blue betacam tape that sound better than the reel to reel at the same time beware when reselling pimped insides don't go well on resell been there
LOL...I simply unscrew the reels, swap the tape pancake for the empty hub...of course if you have fancy hubs to wind the tape on...then you will have to fast forward a tape anyway (done that too)
id love to see you making tracks with the Maschine and boss 505 then record live to the tape or go proper old school and make a tape loop to send into Maschine to build a track ?
long life to analog, thank you for bring us the beauty of this perfect machine
ATR still makes tape here in the US too, they're great as well
I haven't used a Tape splicer for years ... I'd like to to say "good memories" but to be honest, I'm so glad those days are, well gone - for me at least. Now the studio uses (32 track hardware recording) PCM multi track up to 192kHz and DSD to SSD, and of course DAW recording into the Mac from the desk - all seamless from hardware to software ... Though I'll admit Reel to Reel looks VERY cool especially pimped out machines 😂
A consumer dream. Only those who know and have a love for production know how much this equipment has emotional value. Total 80s. Dr Mix is the guy
Could you please make a video about the background of Dr.Mix, how did you found it and where the idea came from.
Ok, I’ll do it!
@@Doctormix I love how responsive you are. Looking forward to this video. Cheers man! Keep it up.
It drives me crazy that you didn't clean the machine before putting on the new reels .. 🤯 .. anyway great video as always .. love the analogue content. :)
He replied on the live chat that it wasn't dust. It's wear marks...
The RX Reels are also beautiful and really pack the tape perfectly.
Nice to see someone getting so excited about 1/4" tape these days. Somewhere in storage I have a large quantity of BASF 7" and 10" spools of Long Play and Double Play tape. Been wondering what to do with it for years.
Loved the new items you received and the presentation. Continue to enjoy yourself.
Younger I was also working with Studer at a major radio station in Montreal for 27 years. I think what's still working today. I made the cuts of the tape, with a razor blade. You make me laugh so much when you get a new box, you breathe it, I do the same thing. I have nostalgia for the analog. thank you Doc
Hey man! Really? Cool :-) so you know your way around the splicing tape huh? 🤟
Not subtle. WOW! Huge sound!
I think so too :) But I have to assume that not all ears are trained as much as mine 🤣
Are you going to do some tape loops ☺️ ? I'd love to hear the Claudio interpretation of Ambient tape loops 😉
I recently acquired an old Sony reel to reel. I’m actually super impressed with the sound quality! I also purchased the splicing tools. I think I’m gonna make a dj mix with this 👍👍
Your voice is one of those you forget how much you love when its been a while, like with Matt Shultz, the lead singer of cage the elephant, I realize I love it after hearing it.
ooh yes, some nice warmth and saturation with the tape!
Fantastic! I had an AKAI GX 4000 Db. I did a lot of remixes. Great video, I went back in time.
That studer sounds amazing.
Doesn't it? :) I love it
Tape hiss is so nice.
Very good video. And very good tape recorder. Congrats. From Brazil.
Grandioso come sempre
This is really neat i think im gonna start record sounds with CDs and cassette tapes just for fun😄
You really love your tape recorder. :D And it makes senses, it´s cooooooool.
I enjoyed the video and congratulations on the updates-very cool. I am sorry to say, we both have a similar sense of humor😊-my poor wife. My first reel-to-reel of that size was a Sears Silvertone (early to mid-1960’s). It was no Studer but I had a lot of fun with it.
Nothing makes me happier then using my real to reel.
hi have a otari my self did not have the space for this model you are right it sounds ace my otari mtr takes 1/2 tape and at the time i came into 100 used once zonal tapes
lost for words otari decks are about the same it's down to spare i can change over to 1/4 1/8 tapes 1/8 is play back and record from start to end as tape is thin
i have to change rollers over as well when change size of the tape and tenson as well love the way you come over
Magnetic is magic!!!
Cool analogy once ruled the world
Urban Sessions purchased 👍
Great to still be able to buy new music on CD
Beautiful machine.
I enjoy your passion. Very nice machine.
I'm in love with that machine! Love the red reels!
Aw yea! Gotta love tape! I'm privileged enough to own a Studer Revox A77. My band doesn't have a drummer at the moment so we pre-record the drum tracks to it and use it at gigs. Just a shame the cast frame weighs a ton.
How many tracks does this tape have? Could you show us sometime how to make tapeloops?
its a stereo mastering deck, so just 2
remember dad playing his music on tape. did had cool mixes on it,
This channel is just so good!
I love your channel, could I request a video about early 80's Italo Disco grooves? that would be super awesome.
Wooow. I worked in radio station on the Philips with 6 heads, looks similar like N4450. There was 2pcs, we do various magic but my favorite magic is echo simulation in live program. The best one.
RTM is not the only company making new tape. In the USA there is ATR Magnetics and they use the Ampex formula.
ATR magnetics also make new tape as far as I know
Interesting:)
Music is sundently more alive 😎
ATR also still make tape, but the point is still valid, if you want decent fresh tape there are not a lot of choices, you're probably purchasing from RTM or ATR
Recapping is one thing to get the refreshed renewed performance you are looking for out of any high end machine. Your ears will love it. That is a bombass machine. Studer A-80, is an explanation really necessary? Only if you don’t know reel to reel from jack! If your recording that from CD to reel, hope you have a really great CD transport and outboard D/A converter. I was thinking Meridian. Really nice stuff. Regardless, I like what I was hearing off that CD. I like that music anyway. Enjoy it guy because A80s are not too plentiful in pristine condition!😁🥰
Is a time machine with Love.
You obvious you are a pretty stylish dude, and it stands to reason a couple of cool looking anodized reels were in your future. I put red and purple anodized reels on my NAGRA T audio with timecode. It is beautiful, and I feel your upgrade. Nice!
I could never go back to tape now that I am use to digital recording. The rewinding, tracking and the hiss removable. AHHHHHHH
Little bit muted high frequencies, but nice harmonics added at low-mid. Am I correct? ;)
What I notice mostly is the change in texture in the mids.. it sounds creamy and "glued" together. Top end becomes rounder, low end becomes more compact.
Feels like an unique track and less segmented than the digital one, a little bit more enthralling. Good for some music, less for other, nice video.
Very nice deck m8!!!
Might get some parts of the transport chromeplated, for even more bling factor? What speed is it running at ? 15ips ?
Nice idea!! Yes 15
Cool the old technology rocks!!
I love this video . I miss working on tape . As always you Rock.
This is awesome! As much as I love the new advantages brought by digital recording, there's just something about analog recording that makes it very special
As a Studer A-80 owner: some of the tape guide bearings are noisy and, after you already used some Ampex stuff, you‘ll have to align the machine to the RTM tapes.
Nevertheless the A-80 sounds awesome anyway. Little advice: put a ppm meter ( RTW or ATP ) in the input chain to obtain the optimum record level for the machine. 😀
Fantastic ritual!!!
I'd love to see the inversion comparison between tape and source, like you demonstrated for MP3 in the video you made about the inversion technique. It can be hard to tell what's really there and what's placebo, seeing you switch between the sources like that. So it'd be neat to see/hear the empirical difference between the two.
Ur a genius Doc
Them Detroit boys used to splice there tapes and put the 909 drums backwards...........Track you played reminds me of Nuyorican Soul /Rotary Connection 😎
Claudio, Do you mean THE Steve Gadd? The drummer who played for Steely Dan - The legendary session drummer?
Yes
man that's beautiful
Hi Dr. Mix what tape formula do you used ?
What kind of sound paneling do you use in your studio?
superior!!!!.........I need to start tu create music now!!!........ Alesis Q88 and computer is good to the first step?......
Hey Doc, can you please teach us how to record from a computer to tape? Thanks a bunch!
I definitely hear a difference. Can you phase-flip the original track against the transferred track so we can hear what the tape actually does?
I should do that
Can you gives some lesson/ guide on how to use a master tape recorder
Oh my Darwin! I love your music Claudio-Dr. Mix! Your videos and your team are amazing! I’m a Mexican producer living in Japan and I enjoy every day your videos while I’m on the crowded trains in Tokyo. I’m very glad I found your channel. I produce all my music with Reason, Logic and the Arturia collection. I wander if you can make a video about Reason 10. All the best Claudio!!!
Aww thank you!! Wow Japan!! That’s so cool. I’ve never been there. Maybe one day 🕺🤟🚀💥
Claudio, spero che mi perdonerai la scurrilitá, ma sei un cazzo di MITO per me!!! Grazie Claudio, grazie di tutta questa cultura, di tutta questa conoscenza!! Sei un faro per ogni tecnico del suono che abbia ancora un minimo di interesse nel fare musica come una volta, con difficoltá, con sforzo, ma con risultati che al solo pensiero fanno venire la pelle d’oca!! E pensa che io ho soltanto ventisei anni, ma la musica come la si faceva, come la si produceva una volta, per tutta quella che ho ascoltato, non potrá mai essere la stessa di adesso, MAI!! Suonare insieme a Steve Gadd posso solo immaginare che onore dev’essere stato!! Grazie ancora Claudio, grazie di ogni magnifico video postato!!! Ti seguiró sempre! ❤️
Woow! Awesome video! Nice recorder and tapes!
Only... I think it would have been nice to use command/control Solo button, instead of clicking Mute one by one, that way there would be no pause between switching tracks.
But I love all you do anyways, so... keep it rolling! ;)
Awesome (just added Urban Sessions to my Apple Music too - absolutley love it). I would love to know how you guys run all of your outboard gear in your studio!
Big tape fan here, enjoyed this, please do more features related to the topic:)
Do you mixed to original digital track or use track from tape for release?
Your microphone is nice. It's sound looks so sharp.
Where do you brought it? From store or internet?
(I'll using it on my stage performence.)
www.thomann.de/gb/akg_c_520_l.htm
ATR also makes tape!
hi big boy in a toy shop i have a otari mtr 12 my self the pancakes you got are very likely for 12 inch reels i like otari unit's be could i can change to 1/2 inch tapes
on my unit
Where are the electronics for the tape machine? That's a pretty risky way of loading a pancake reel. Points off for not using a splicing block and a fresh razor blade but at least you are using RTM instead of ATR. That piano with the synth setup is pretty rad would like to know more about that.
I want a revox B77. The version with the 15ips tape speed, something magical about the format
Soundman Gaz I have a MK2 I’ll sell you in pristine condition
justin lee how much?
i would have imagine that the color of tape recording was from recording analog to it or at least to play tape back a without digital chain. What s your sampling rate then when you record it back digitally, do you oversample ?Thanks
I use a standard 44.1 at 24 bit for most of my work
Wow its a great beautyfull stutter Tape machine.I Love it locks Like.
I used to repair and line-up these machines, including A800 2" tape machines. Sham you use the fixed blade to cut your tape and not an aluminium block stuck to the deck offering 45° and 90° edits with a free single-edged razor blade, pizazz personified Claudio. With your ears surely you can hear a 45° edit, there's a good example on the beginning/end of Pink Floyd's The Wall. BTW have you checked the safety mods for the A80? Some of the wires that supply the motors can be loose enough that they get chaffed by the exposed rotating part of the motor inside.
Really? Link please!
To be fair he was only splicing on some leader tape, it's not like he was trying to make a sonically transparent edit mid song.
Love it
Very nice ^^
Just been given one of these. Where do I get those bits from?
If you're just spooling tape from one spool to another, why run it across the head and capstan section? I would think that would increase wear and tear on all components involved.
Not really.. besides if you don’t run the tape across tge heads the machine won’t move.
At 7:36 it seems the output from the tape is phase inverted.
Really? I'm not sure that's the case :) I just had the whole system recalibrated
By a pro :)
@@Doctormix as I said, it seems so :D maybe it's how protools built the peaks
Perfect opportunity to invert the phase of one of the audio files, keep both tracks perfectly time aligned, bring up the fader gradually of one track while the other is playing. Then you can hear EXACTLY what the tape machine has done because all of the identical waveforms in each track will cancel each other out due to phase cancellation, leaving just the extra added enhancements created by the tape machine coming out of the monitors. The thing is, it's probably too subtle for people brought up on a diet of dubstep and trap :(
Good idea!!!!
Ciao Claudio, c'é anche ATR Magnetics che produce ancora nastri!
Oh cool!
Perfeito.
Do a cover of Break my Stride by Matthew Wilder. Lots of synth
Por tu acento pensé que estabas en Miami pero estas en UK 🇬🇧. De todas formas, se que eres latino quizás cubano?
Owww beautifull!!!!!
That Urban Sessions album really is so damn good!!! I listen it on Tidal now, for days. The playing of all instruments are incredible good and you can hear very good who's playing the key's;-). Also the mixing and mastering is fabulous. I can't sit still when I listen it. Are there new albums coming in the future? Also listened to your own album "After Hours Ritual feat. Dave Weckl & John". This is you or am I wrong? Anyway, thanks for sharing all the good stuff and I hope you will keep doing this for a long time. I didn't play music for a long time but seeing the fun you have in playing gave me inspiration and set up my gear again and am busy to setup my Mac again to play some music again. And I love Reel to Reels😍.
What was that software that monitored the tape ?
Red reels Rule the top load tape deck! is that just a 2 track? i cant see the heads?
Yup 2 tracks
hi cool lot out there i got hold of some btacam sp betacam digi decks i will say they can be used as audio masters as there's at of new old stock about
wow the old betacam can kick the behide of alot of reel to reel decks i have 35 year old blue betacam tape that sound better than the reel to reel at the same time
beware when reselling pimped insides don't go well on resell been there
LOL...I simply unscrew the reels, swap the tape pancake for the empty hub...of course if you have fancy hubs to wind the tape on...then you will have to fast forward a tape anyway (done that too)
id love to see you making tracks with the Maschine and boss 505 then record live to the tape or go proper old school and make a tape loop to send into Maschine to build a track ?
So what are you gonna do with the old one ?
Keep it as spare?
What's thing make this guy opening box so crazy
You mean me? I don’t know.. That’s just how I do it :-)
@@Doctormix great job
@@沈逸帆 Thanks!
I think the CD sound brighter..
What about some simple job like remake the Tomorrow Never Knows loops (The Beatles) ? :P
Super cool, lets do it dude