Damn! That sounds fantastic. You definitely "have it" Also, this video is the perfect length and the editing is perfect. Really fantastic video overall
this is the best tutorial ever, legit you inspired me to make tutorials/my process, I've been overthinking making them so much because it takes me so long to create and i don't like to film while I'm working
@Abraham Sink the label has been pushing out the release of the album but we’re gonna release it as soon as possible... this song will an original music video also!
There were a lot of models made by the major devs. I've managed to have never heard of this one. Seems like a sleek little creativity-inspiring gear bit. Made me want this.
Allow me to introduce a new unit of measurement for sound volume, which I call vovol* (abbreviated: volume voltage). THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: You use two pre-stages, one with positive volume values, and the other negative. For example, so has the pre-step with positive values a measurement from +0 decibels up to +20, while the one with negative values, has from -0 decibels down to -20 decibels. The highest voltage occurs when the value is +20 and -20 decibels (or: 20 vovol), while there is low voltage, when the value is on +0 and -0 decibels (or: 0 vovol). You can possibly also combine two different values with each other, by adjusting the value to +10 -20 vovol, which gives a crisper effect. Have experimented with this myself at work and at home. The adjustment can of course be set to taste. More information about Vovol: When the sound has high volume voltage, the speaker membrane is stretched like a guitar string, so that the sound becomes more sharper, realistic and noise-free. This can be achieved by using an equalizer with a preamp. First, all frequencies are lowered, to, for example, -12 decibels. Then you raise it up to +12 decibels, with a preamp. This is how I usually experiment, with vovol, because currently there are no tools, or apps, to do this. If you, or other who reading this, have an equalizer with a preamp, I think you should try it too. And thank you all for reading! :-) Great video!
Thanks for all the awesome feedback! You can hear the full song and the rest of the new Sealife album here ~ open.spotify.com/artist/70hDlhAk9WX3XPtaCzarlx?si=8K018L5TSbqKlK3RdLPC2w
Awesome track and recording process! Did you use a stereo 1/4 cable to go back into your DAW? It looks like a mono cable in the video here, but just curious about the transfer-back process!
Hey Sealife, great song. Great bass tone direct. I have never tried my bass direct into the Fostex will have to try that. What was your signal chain for the vocal mic? I think I hear some reverb on the vocals. And did you simply do a stereo mix to Pro Tools or did you do 2 tracks at a time? I know that Fostex unit (have had that exact model purchased new in 2001) only has the 2 outputs. Transferring 2 tracks per pass is a bit of a nightmare with tape drift. Just curious.
I’m glad you like it!! I imported each track on its own actually! One by one, and then synced them by ear... it was tenuous but worth it. I compressed (in protools) the vocals in a bit for some of my room sound, and added a touch more of reverb and delay.
@@sealife7475 i was going to ask the same , im going to get an audio interface with 4 in/outs so i can skip the syncing but its good to know you can actually sync one track at a time to pc from tape. thanks for the upload
I used a 1/4” instrument cable to connect the tape machine. To connect an interface to a computer you typically need a usb cable, although in this video I was using the since outdated FireWire cable.
Funny how things work. I’ve been recording since the early 90s and we couldn’t wait to get away from cassettes And when they disappeared it was a celebration. The truth is, that skinny quarter inch tape ( that has to be used on both sides!!) doesn’t pick up a very wide spectrum of sound
Yeah it’s weird, I started recording in 2006 ish, and it was ALL digital. It’s been a treat using tape machines and learning about them. Tape has such a unique sound, it’s fun crushing the signal into submission and getting weird analog sounds.
It definitely glued the track. The best way to describe it is hearing the instruments being “affected” by the other instruments. Kind of the same way the kick drum makes everything else sound when using side chain compression
There’s no way to arm more than one track the way it’s built. But I believe if all four tracks were armed it would take up the full width on BOTH sides of the tape, as in 2 tracks per side, and heads simultaneously reading both sides during playback.
Could I use a hifi stereo set with the tape deck as recording unit ( 1 track) by connecting to interface as well or is that different from this 4 track? Thank you ! Great video
Great! 👍 1 track for drums, track 2 for rhythm guitar, track 3 goes to lead guitar and track 4 for bass. Did you record vocal on protools track? No bouncing on Fostex? Btw, very compelling song.
I recorded the vocals onto the Fostex after I bounced the other 4 instruments tracks into Protools, and mixed everything in Protools. Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate it
@@sealife7475 interesting i did the exact same workflow & within the first 4 bars everything was extremely off tempo. i’ll probably just need some tape that isn’t like 40 years old from a thrift store so it doesn’t stretch rapidly on me haha
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Wow, that actually sounds great! I recognize the Electrovoice 635a, I think. That's a gem of a mic, a secret weapon for many.
Thank you so much!! Yeah I really enjoy having it around. King Gizzard uses one and that's what got me into it.
king glizzard is great! i was thinking about buying a 635a but i found an 8 track cassett deck for the same price and i went with that instead.
Do you know LO-FI CAR MUSIC ? It was recorded on Fostex X-15
That's a great sounding recording.
Dude this is BEAUTIFUL. Awesome, awesome AWESOME.
How can those drums sound soooo good
Tape compression.
Plus, YT adds it's own compression as well.
That ev Omni directional mic is a secret weapon
Properly tuned kit
Saw this and immediately downloaded all of your releases on Spotify. Loving it! Keep it up dude!
Much appreciated friend!
You’ve got a great voice! David Byrne meets Tatsuro Yamashita.
That vocal tone is gorgeous
YES. btw I love your camera work, your photography! It's a VIDEO after all. so good thank you!
Hey thanks so much friend! I appreciate it!
Damn! That sounds fantastic. You definitely "have it"
Also, this video is the perfect length and the editing is perfect. Really fantastic video overall
Absolutely LOVE the song.
thanks so much!!
this is the best tutorial ever, legit you inspired me to make tutorials/my process, I've been overthinking making them so much because it takes me so long to create and i don't like to film while I'm working
Just bought one of these one week ago! Cooool video
This feels like music more than anything. Recording to that physical media
Love the song. Your singing here is so smooth and I really really like your style.
Thank you so much!!
I like how you record music.
Much appreciated! This song will be on a new album out soon!
@Abraham Sink the label has been pushing out the release of the album but we’re gonna release it as soon as possible... this song will an original music video also!
Dude thank you so much! Why did this take me long to find?I have been researching how to get into tape recording and your set up sounds so good! 😊
enjoyed the vibe
Dude AWESOME video this is gold I’m showing everyone!
I appreciate that!
bro i cant believe i just discovered your music. Keep grinding! This is a dope track!
That is really cool. Love the sound
Nostalgia.
Used it a lot in the early nineties.
This is ace! Great tunes as well, more people need to know about you.
Thanks so much friend!!
@@sealife7475 no worries, I found you on Instagram as well! Take it easy!
i keep coming back to this
I’ve been uploading more tape jams on my Instagram, check em out at @sseeaalliiffee_
That sounded so great!
Cool! That Apt 6 song is also very catchy! Looking forward to hear the whole song finished :) Very cool playing too!
Thank you thank you! I’ll put a link in the description when the album releases!
@@sealife7475 Cool! Greetings from Sweden!
Cool style. Your vocals are great
Great tune! Love your filmmaking style. I’m having Wes Anderson vibes!
Sounds great!
There were a lot of models made by the major devs. I've managed to have never heard of this one. Seems like a sleek little creativity-inspiring gear bit. Made me want this.
thanks so much mate!
Wow I love your music
wow honeslty nice song usually ppl who post gear they dont make the best stuff but i liked this
I try!
Nice sound, especially the drums!!
Fantastic!
Thank you!
lovely song
My first multitrack recorder was a Fostex.
Good music bro! Make more vids like this too!
Nice work.
love that drum sound! gonna try my 635a in the same position and see what it sounds like.
Brilliant!
Some talent there dude. Sounds like sponge bob guitar
man this is awesome
Thanks so much!
When you put the drumstick in the tape I thought, "dude needs to spin it" then you spin it and earned a sub👍🏽👍🏽
hahaha
I traded mine off for an HR-16. Maybe I’ll keep my eye open for another one. Good job!
Great tune nice Video
Thanks mate!
Bic pen (and also many pencils brands) era perfect to rewind tape because it's hexagonal shape. It's soooo 80's.
Allow me to introduce a new unit of measurement for sound volume,
which I call vovol* (abbreviated: volume voltage).
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: You use two pre-stages, one with positive volume values, and the other negative.
For example, so has the pre-step with positive values
a measurement from +0 decibels up to +20, while the one with negative values, has from -0 decibels down to -20 decibels.
The highest voltage occurs when the value is
+20 and -20 decibels (or: 20 vovol),
while there is low voltage, when the value is on
+0 and -0 decibels (or: 0 vovol).
You can possibly also combine two different values with each other, by adjusting the value to +10 -20 vovol, which gives a crisper effect. Have experimented with this myself at work and at home.
The adjustment can of course be set to taste.
More information about Vovol:
When the sound has high volume voltage, the speaker membrane is stretched like a guitar string, so that the sound becomes more sharper, realistic and noise-free.
This can be achieved by using an equalizer with a preamp. First, all frequencies are lowered, to, for example, -12 decibels.
Then you raise it up to +12 decibels, with a preamp.
This is how I usually experiment, with vovol, because currently there are no tools, or apps, to do this.
If you, or other who reading this, have an equalizer with a preamp, I think you should try it too.
And thank you all for reading!
:-)
Great video!
Wild!
“for the bass i just plugged it in direct”
the bass tone
❤🎉⚡️✨⭐️🌟🎉❤
Song slaps. Makes me one drive / walk down the road with cool glasses
Thanks for all the awesome feedback! You can hear the full song and the rest of the new Sealife album here ~ open.spotify.com/artist/70hDlhAk9WX3XPtaCzarlx?si=8K018L5TSbqKlK3RdLPC2w
Awesome
Great Job
Que gran video gran sonido !
4 tracks are dope
Smart way of recording. Fun too
Lol glad to see I’m not the only one with a big tube amp on super huge castor wheels.
Realy realy great!!!
yous sing really good!!!
This was the first 4-track i ever owned... makes drums and bass sound so sweet. I still have it but no longer works... bummer.
Man the song is trippy
Nothing like analog smoothness
Great voice. :D
Where can i find one of theese fostex 4 track ? 🤔
Can you use a condenser mic that requires phantom power
Nice demonstration :-)
Nice video
Brilliant :)
Thanks so much!!
This underated as helllllllllllll
Awesome track and recording process! Did you use a stereo 1/4 cable to go back into your DAW? It looks like a mono cable in the video here, but just curious about the transfer-back process!
what kind of hi hats and snare?
I used to demo songs on one of these back in the day.
Ahhhh safe g, been looking for a few days for a video just like this to see the exact process of recording vox then recording the tape into a daw
do you send all tracks together at the same time to protools?
Nice Belushi !
Hey Sealife, great song. Great bass tone direct. I have never tried my bass direct into the Fostex will have to try that. What was your signal chain for the vocal mic? I think I hear some reverb on the vocals. And did you simply do a stereo mix to Pro Tools or did you do 2 tracks at a time? I know that Fostex unit (have had that exact model purchased new in 2001) only has the 2 outputs. Transferring 2 tracks per pass is a bit of a nightmare with tape drift. Just curious.
I’m glad you like it!! I imported each track on its own actually! One by one, and then synced them by ear... it was tenuous but worth it. I compressed (in protools) the vocals in a bit for some of my room sound, and added a touch more of reverb and delay.
@@sealife7475 i was going to ask the same , im going to get an audio interface with 4 in/outs so i can skip the syncing but its good to know you can actually sync one track at a time to pc from tape. thanks for the upload
What was your vocal chain?
What are the mics plugged into?
Can you connect it to a laptop using an interface if so what cable do you use
I used a 1/4” instrument cable to connect the tape machine. To connect an interface to a computer you typically need a usb cable, although in this video I was using the since outdated FireWire cable.
❤
Oh yeah.
Where can I here more of this song?
I’ll drop a link in the description when the album drops in a few weeks!
I want this track
Funny how things work. I’ve been recording since the early 90s and we couldn’t wait to get away from cassettes And when they disappeared it was a celebration. The truth is, that skinny quarter inch tape ( that has to be used on both sides!!) doesn’t pick up a very wide spectrum of sound
Yeah it’s weird, I started recording in 2006 ish, and it was ALL digital. It’s been a treat using tape machines and learning about them. Tape has such a unique sound, it’s fun crushing the signal into submission and getting weird analog sounds.
@@sealife7475 You can do that in a DAW now with plug ins and its impossible to tell the difference.
Great video !...How much saturation comes through when you record back in to protools?does it help glue the track?would like to try this.
It definitely glued the track. The best way to describe it is hearing the instruments being “affected” by the other instruments. Kind of the same way the kick drum makes everything else sound when using side chain compression
I wonder if both tabs have to be intact to enable recording. Because apparently recording on all four tracks would take up the full width of the tape.
There’s no way to arm more than one track the way it’s built. But I believe if all four tracks were armed it would take up the full width on BOTH sides of the tape, as in 2 tracks per side, and heads simultaneously reading both sides during playback.
Could I use a hifi stereo set with the tape deck as recording unit ( 1 track) by connecting to interface as well or is that different from this 4 track? Thank you ! Great video
If it has a record function yes! It's still tape!
Great vibe to this recording!
Howd u do more than 4 tracks tho (5) ?!
Great! 👍
1 track for drums, track 2 for rhythm guitar, track 3 goes to lead guitar and track 4 for bass. Did you record vocal on protools track? No bouncing on Fostex?
Btw, very compelling song.
I recorded the vocals onto the Fostex after I bounced the other 4 instruments tracks into Protools, and mixed everything in Protools. Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate it
Great sound! Love it especially impressed with the drums. Great sound from one mic only. What mic’s are you using?
Thanks so much!
I'm using a Electro Voice 635a (drums, etc.) and a Shure Sm7b (vocals).
that bass sound is pretty neat too....
Так пишутся все инди музыканты и группы, а их 23 миллиона 900 тысяч человек!
really cool. what kind of reverb(preset) is that on the vocals? spring?
Well that was unexpected.
holy shit this is so good!! is this song on spotify or anything??
great song, how did you add effects to the vocal?
It was a little bit of eq, compression, and reverb, once I brought the track into Pro Tools
so if you bounced each part 1 at a time to digital how did you synchronize the tracks in your daw?
Correct. I did everything to a click, so I just aligned them as best I could in my DAW. It's ok if they're a few milliseconds late or early.
@@sealife7475 interesting i did the exact same workflow & within the first 4 bars everything was extremely off tempo. i’ll probably just need some tape that isn’t like 40 years old from a thrift store so it doesn’t stretch rapidly on me haha
@@jaredfunke6864 THIS. Get some fresh tape and clean your heads!
So you didn’t have any time alignment issues in your DAW between tracks from the tape stretching?
Not too bad, I corrected any timing issues once I brought the tracks into Pro Tools.
Where can I find this song
Just finished filming the music video! I’ll post it in a month or so when I release the rest of the album!
Nice keep it up man
Самый маленький из кассетных мультитрекеров ! ))
wtf? this is fuckin awesome
This might be how Mac Demarco makes music