i’ll tell you right now. normally, 1/4 inch is better, but the 388 is 8 tracks on a 1/4 inch of tape. cassettes use 4 tracks of 1/8 inch tape. 4 tracks 1/8inch and 8 tracks 1/4inch tape is the exact same fidelity. the only difference would be the noise reduction running at 7 1/2 ips rather than 3 3/4 ips.
The tape is definitely an improvement and fills out the mix. Love the band too. Reminds me of Stereolab and some retro 60s instrumentation added. Will stream it.
Low sugar in the Cola👍, not aspartame👎,...to shut down pinealgland😄 Wish that cola existed here in Sweden,..Great video, love the techniques, i am all inspired by you Matt and Doris,...and i have transformed my studio to lean more at recording on Tape, used to do that in the 1997 last time,..but as you know tape do magic if one want the 70ies sound,..I rock the 4 track TEAC A-3340s and Tandberg 3000x, and more..Thank you dear Matt and Doris, u are the real DreamMachine😃🙏 🎹🎸🥁🪘🎶☯
Matthew, in my youth when I read guitar magazines it was all about home demos, the Tascam portastudios had just come out. One idea they had was to master ( and bounce) onto a video tape recorder because a) sound quality - do you hear any hiss on a movie tape? b) They have a tape counter, therefore easy to access the track you want. c) some models have an insert index mode, so you can >> or
I bounced a song from tascam 388 to vhs recently then copied the tape onto another tape 10 times to introduce generation loss. The results came out awesome the fuzz sounds chewy
It depends on what the album, song, or even just an individual part needs to your taste. All digital can be amazingly clear and recorded perfectly and easily, but not every part should be completely clean if that's what the song needs, or doesn't need. That's what is so beautiful about music as an artform, it's gotten to where the technology needs to be, to where your inspiration takes you. I'm excited to see where your art goes.
Bought an old TEAC V350C deck to record some cassettes to give away as promotion. I soon learned that theirs a nice quality to the cassette sound. I have some more experimenting to do. My next one being I’ll use better preamps going into the cassette player.
the tape sounds infinitely better....the digital version is harsh and like an ice pick in my ear. I'm so glad i bought this Tascam 388....ive had DAWS for 20 years...2 or 3 of them...but THIS is the way to go.
I love these comparisons, but could you level match prior to playing them? And also, switch between them consecutively? I don't trust my memory. Thanks
I like your comment on setting the record level on the cassette deck. At 6:19 you said "you can see here, I"m playing it real safe, I' m "CLOCKING IN" just below zero on the peak level meter" (as if it had a "clock" that you were using to sync the units together).
Matthew & Doris doing great! I moved to KC a few months ago from Santa Cruz and here working and playing lots of music! Happy to see your still kickin ass and taking names! I love your channel! Keep up the great work y’all! ✨🎶🤘🏼
I'm being sincere here so don't take me wrong, but if you did this on a non-garbage cassette using a better tape deck, nothing extravagant, but a bit better than what you had there, you'd be amazed how much better it can sound. Well done cassettes can give you the best of both worlds...digital clarity, but with a hint of that vintage hi-fi tape sound. Kinda what draws people to vinyl tbh. Cheers, from 2024.
I think the tape sounds better of course but I also do not think the average listener can tell the difference.....kind of like using cheap oil paint to do an oil painting.
Hi Matthew, great video. I thought the analogue was definitely better by far. It was warmer and moreike I remember records used to sound back 8n the 1970's. I love your work. Kind regards. Paul.
Been getting whacky with my 388 and dig the tips. Cassette definitely sounds better. The low end gets all tape compressy and the hiss is honestly where its at, I say.
Nice!👏😃🤝I feel like the style fits analog perfectly! (SuperDuperMegaBonus for Nostalgia vibes) Both versions sound really, really good though! I like both for different reasons.👏👏👏👍😇💖💐🎶Totally vibin’ the new song and new video - Lovin’ that Pegasus print. Very awesome.🙂🤙
Sounds much better tape! Thanks for the comparison! Can you take a fully digital recording and bounce it out to sound like a tape recording? Very good information! Thanks for sharing!
Interesting! I much prefer the analog sound for this style of music in particular! Got me thinking; My mixes tend to lean on the bright side with not enough bass so I wonder if this approach would bring some balance. The difference is not subtle. There was a multi year gap between the time I recorded in the analog world (Tascam Portastudio 424) vs my entry into DAWs(GarageBand/Logic) so I never really carefully compared the 2 mediums. The stock compressor in Logic has a setting called "Platinum Analog Tape". I wonder how that compares. How lucky we all are to have all these options these days.
analog sounds way better, I’m doing the opposite soon. bouncing from my tascam 246 4track cassette to digital stereo tracks. hope that doesn’t ruin the sound quality!!
The Analog version was louder so its unfair comparison. You need to get both the levels perfectly correct. (Using a VU meter) Also you obviously may not be aware of all the amazing digital plugins that are out there that can emulate tape to a very high degree. Not to mention analog preamps and stages etc..Tape is not necessary these days. I get where you are coming form for sure. I own 4 tape machines still but tend to use them for converting analog to digital for clients. Some of the tape plugins are amazing. You can set speeds from 1 7/8 to 30 ips and get the range of sounds that offers. You cannot do that with your Tascam for example. You can push the drive elements or hold them back etc. This is what is great though. You can put SOME of the tracks in your DAW only through the analog processes and others not and get a combination of analog and digital sounds. Tape is expensive in Australia now and hard to get as well. What used to cost $20 for a 10 1/2" reel is now $70 to $100. They are over charging because they can! If the music is really good enough the recording medium is really not that relevant.
Cool comparison. The tape sure is hissy, but warm. The song reminds me a bit of the psychedelic band The United States of America. Cool stuff... will have to give this a try.
I think the vocals actually sounded better digitally in this case. To me, the cassette sounded very midrange and the cymbals were almost non existent. I usually like analog better, but in this case, I think you're limited to the headroom on the cassette and the limitation of whatever cassette you were using (that may be the biggest variable). It's just my opinion, but that's what I hear. If you could blend or mix the two together, that may liven things up. Thanks for sharing. It still gets a like from me.
I agree, the cymbals get lost completely on the cassette mix. I dig the lo-fi sound, but the original digital recording had plenty of grit for my taste.
This is just my own opinion, I have used digital and tape throughout my own recordings and I have recently found I am enjoying Digital recording more and more and can get a very analog sound, just from using different mics and positioning them in non-conventional ways.... I think mics and positioning is more important than the recording gear at times. I have used Tascam 488 cassette, reel to reel and now am really digging using the Tascam DP-O3SD and I love it. Ultimately nothing will sound truly vintage cos the pressing plants are too scared to master the vinyl hot.
I liked your videos till I saw your fox TV interview where you defend horribly racist ideas. The things they're doing to people in those ICE detention centers is torture, and you and your wife seem happy about it. You're sick and you should probably see a therapist to try figure out why you're directing your self hatred toward others who are just coming to the US trying to make a better life for themselves.
Hey Simon! Thank you for expressing your concern, however, neither myself nor my husband have ever said anything regarding ICE detention centers. Please do link to the article in which we were "racist". I myself have immigrated from war torn Bosnia to Holland (thanks for the bombings, Americans!) and then to this horrid and corrupt and political cesspool called the United States of America (🤢🤮) which I cannot wait to promptly leave thanks to people like you. I think I would know quite a bit more about immigration than you, a white American male, but since you seem very self righteous in your beliefs, why don't we set up a quick live stream debate so we can clear some things up? Let me know! Send me a message here or e-mail fuzzcityrecords@gmail.com and we'll set up a date! Also, please leave my husband out of the Fox news thing, as I was the one defending my stance on feminism. Give women a little credit for their own opinions, you sexist pig! xoxo Doris Melton
Could you make a video comparing the 1/4" tape of the 388 to the 1/8" tape of the cassette and highlight the differences? Great video man keep it up
i’ll tell you right now.
normally, 1/4 inch is better, but the 388 is 8 tracks on a 1/4 inch of tape.
cassettes use 4 tracks of 1/8 inch tape.
4 tracks 1/8inch and 8 tracks 1/4inch tape is the exact same fidelity. the only difference would be the noise reduction running at 7 1/2 ips rather than 3 3/4 ips.
The tape is definitely an improvement and fills out the mix. Love the band too. Reminds me of Stereolab and some retro 60s instrumentation added. Will stream it.
I was listening to it through a laptop speaker and even then I could tell the difference, definitely gonna try this!
Low sugar in the Cola👍, not aspartame👎,...to shut down pinealgland😄 Wish that cola existed here in Sweden,..Great video, love the techniques, i am all inspired by you Matt and Doris,...and i have transformed my studio to lean more at recording on Tape, used to do that in the 1997 last time,..but as you know tape do magic if one want the 70ies sound,..I rock the 4 track TEAC A-3340s and Tandberg 3000x, and more..Thank you dear Matt and Doris, u are the real DreamMachine😃🙏 🎹🎸🥁🪘🎶☯
Sounds great Matthew. Liking the cassette crunch!
I am going to try this in a second with a digitally recorded track that needs some analogue love/warmth that I need to send in tomorrow.
Also could you do a rundown of your rack gear?
Matthew, in my youth when I read guitar magazines it was all about home demos, the Tascam portastudios had just come out. One idea they had was to master ( and bounce) onto a video tape recorder because a) sound quality - do you hear any hiss on a movie tape? b) They have a tape counter, therefore easy to access the track you want. c) some models have an insert index mode, so you can >> or
I bounced a song from tascam 388 to vhs recently then copied the tape onto another tape 10 times to introduce generation loss. The results came out awesome the fuzz sounds chewy
MAZE LAZER RECORDS Glad to hear someone gave it a go but surprised you wanted generation loss instead of higher quality
Cool idea!
It depends on what the album, song, or even just an individual part needs to your taste. All digital can be amazingly clear and recorded perfectly and easily, but not every part should be completely clean if that's what the song needs, or doesn't need. That's what is so beautiful about music as an artform, it's gotten to where the technology needs to be, to where your inspiration takes you. I'm excited to see where your art goes.
Bought an old TEAC V350C deck to record some cassettes to give away as promotion. I soon learned that theirs a nice quality to the cassette sound. I have some more experimenting to do. My next one being I’ll use better preamps going into the cassette player.
the tape sounds infinitely better....the digital version is harsh and like an ice pick in my ear.
I'm so glad i bought this Tascam 388....ive had DAWS for 20 years...2 or 3 of them...but THIS is the way to go.
Love these Tech-Demo type video.
Interesting A.F!
For the Music you make definitely bouncing on Tape sounds Great!
Vintage Cola should have actual Coke in it
It's vintage cola not antique cola, dipshit.
@@slushedpuppy8044 All soda should have coke in it
I just wanna say that you guys are absolutely awesome! I love ya hat you all do!!!
I love these comparisons, but could you level match prior to playing them? And also, switch between them consecutively? I don't trust my memory. Thanks
I like your comment on setting the record level on the cassette deck. At 6:19 you said "you can see here, I"m playing it real safe, I' m "CLOCKING IN" just below zero on the peak level meter" (as if it had a "clock" that you were using to sync the units together).
I subbed solely on the cola bit 😂
studio is coming along!
Wow!!!! Analog is king!!!!
Is there a patchbay in that rack?
"A vintage style.. COLA😃" haha sold
So dope can you make a video of you making a song recording, mixing, mastering all completely analog?
Analog! Miss you Matthew! Great job Doris! ✨🎶🤘🏼
Hi Justin, long time no see! Hope you are doing well brother.
Matthew & Doris doing great! I moved to KC a few months ago from Santa Cruz and here working and playing lots of music! Happy to see your still kickin ass and taking names! I love your channel! Keep up the great work y’all! ✨🎶🤘🏼
I'm being sincere here so don't take me wrong, but if you did this on a non-garbage cassette using a better tape deck, nothing extravagant, but a bit better than what you had there, you'd be amazed how much better it can sound. Well done cassettes can give you the best of both worlds...digital clarity, but with a hint of that vintage hi-fi tape sound. Kinda what draws people to vinyl tbh. Cheers, from 2024.
I liked the analog better and usually I prefer digital, Nice!
When answering your wife’s question I’m pretty sure you used the Wookiee defense, nice play! The soda looks delicious.
I think the tape sounds better of course but I also do not think the average listener can tell the difference.....kind of like using cheap oil paint to do an oil painting.
Tape sounds way better even on my TV speakers.
I had an Ollipop strawberry tonic awhile back it was mega tasty!!! Love the video! 💁♀️
I got addicted and had to quit...
We gotta get you a three head tape deck and some blank tapes. Poor Bearwear greatest hits? 🤪
Hi Matthew, great video. I thought the analogue was definitely better by far. It was warmer and moreike I remember records used to sound back 8n the 1970's. I love your work. Kind regards. Paul.
Analog is the way to to go, no doubt. Very warm sounding as well!
Love the videos
Been getting whacky with my 388 and dig the tips.
Cassette definitely sounds better. The low end gets all tape compressy and the hiss is honestly where its at, I say.
Nice!👏😃🤝I feel like the style fits analog perfectly! (SuperDuperMegaBonus for Nostalgia vibes) Both versions sound really, really good though! I like both for different reasons.👏👏👏👍😇💖💐🎶Totally vibin’ the new song and new video - Lovin’ that Pegasus print. Very awesome.🙂🤙
Sounds much better tape! Thanks for the comparison! Can you take a fully digital recording and bounce it out to sound like a tape recording? Very good information! Thanks for sharing!
Interesting! I much prefer the analog sound for this style of music in particular! Got me thinking; My mixes tend to lean on the bright side with not enough bass so I wonder if this approach would bring some balance. The difference is not subtle. There was a multi year gap between the time I recorded in the analog world (Tascam Portastudio 424) vs my entry into DAWs(GarageBand/Logic) so I never really carefully compared the 2 mediums. The stock compressor in Logic has a setting called "Platinum Analog Tape". I wonder how that compares. How lucky we all are to have all these options these days.
You freed the 388 :D
hey, just found your channel. love Olipop!
analog sounds way better, I’m doing the opposite soon. bouncing from my tascam 246 4track cassette to digital stereo tracks. hope that doesn’t ruin the sound quality!!
Tape sounds better. Fuller sound.
The Analog version was louder so its unfair comparison. You need to get both the levels perfectly correct. (Using a VU meter) Also you obviously may not be aware of all the amazing digital plugins that are out there that can emulate tape to a very high degree. Not to mention analog preamps and stages etc..Tape is not necessary these days. I get where you are coming form for sure. I own 4 tape machines still but tend to use them for converting analog to digital for clients. Some of the tape plugins are amazing. You can set speeds from 1 7/8 to 30 ips and get the range of sounds that offers. You cannot do that with your Tascam for example. You can push the drive elements or hold them back etc. This is what is great though. You can put SOME of the tracks in your DAW only through the analog processes and others not and get a combination of analog and digital sounds. Tape is expensive in Australia now and hard to get as well. What used to cost $20 for a 10 1/2" reel is now $70 to $100. They are over charging because they can! If the music is really good enough the recording medium is really not that relevant.
Cool comparison. The tape sure is hissy, but warm. The song reminds me a bit of the psychedelic band The United States of America. Cool stuff... will have to give this a try.
Embrace the hiss!
I think the vocals actually sounded better digitally in this case. To me, the cassette sounded very midrange and the cymbals were almost non existent. I usually like analog better, but in this case, I think you're limited to the headroom on the cassette and the limitation of whatever cassette you were using (that may be the biggest variable). It's just my opinion, but that's what I hear. If you could blend or mix the two together, that may liven things up. Thanks for sharing. It still gets a like from me.
I agree, the cymbals get lost completely on the cassette mix. I dig the lo-fi sound, but the original digital recording had plenty of grit for my taste.
This is just my own opinion, I have used digital and tape throughout my own recordings and I have recently found I am enjoying Digital recording more and more and can get a very analog sound, just from using different mics and positioning them in non-conventional ways.... I think mics and positioning is more important than the recording gear at times. I have used Tascam 488 cassette, reel to reel and now am really digging using the Tascam DP-O3SD and I love it.
Ultimately nothing will sound truly vintage cos the pressing plants are too scared to master the vinyl hot.
Weeeeeee...spin the chair!!!
Postage stamp over the Apple logo.. Lol 🤣
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Analog tape sounds much fuller thicker and more detailed..
Amen to that!
@@dreammachine432 ahahahhahah
I didn't know kip was on blues clues
I liked your videos till I saw your fox TV interview where you defend horribly racist ideas. The things they're doing to people in those ICE detention centers is torture, and you and your wife seem happy about it. You're sick and you should probably see a therapist to try figure out why you're directing your self hatred toward others who are just coming to the US trying to make a better life for themselves.
Hey Simon! Thank you for expressing your concern, however, neither myself nor my husband have ever said anything regarding ICE detention centers. Please do link to the article in which we were "racist". I myself have immigrated from war torn Bosnia to Holland (thanks for the bombings, Americans!) and then to this horrid and corrupt and political cesspool called the United States of America (🤢🤮) which I cannot wait to promptly leave thanks to people like you. I think I would know quite a bit more about immigration than you, a white American male, but since you seem very self righteous in your beliefs, why don't we set up a quick live stream debate so we can clear some things up? Let me know! Send me a message here or e-mail fuzzcityrecords@gmail.com and we'll set up a date! Also, please leave my husband out of the Fox news thing, as I was the one defending my stance on feminism. Give women a little credit for their own opinions, you sexist pig!
xoxo
Doris Melton