Tape Deck

what up my slappers

I own a fostex mr-8 digi multitracker..but i hate the thin digital sound and tje quick clippin/disortion i gt with it! so I bought a new tape deck and my boss passed me some fresh studio master tapes (from the studio) record my beats first onto to (like +4DB tape compression baby)

and then from tape back to digital

DAMN IT SOUNDS FAT! not really a lost of quality due to HQ tapes and recorder, and sample based shit is always grimey (not as bright as synth stuff)

I love this thing! just to inspire you guys on things..analog sounds just fat

I've been toying with the idea of doing the same thing.Record out of my MPC onto tape and then into the computer.Tape does add character to stuff if used correctly.I just found out not 5 minutes ago that a very well known mixtape DJ friend of mine still works this way.He reocrds all of his mixes onto a 4 track(not uncommon).You can only get 15 minutes or so onto a 4-track tape so he does 4 tapes and then he takes and plays the output of the 4-track into his computer where he edits it so that the 4 tapes know play straigt through to sound like one long mix.Masters it burns it and then sells it.

I've always wondered how a real tapedeck would sound compared with something like PSP MixSaturator or Magneto.
I wouldn't mind having a tapedeck myself, but i've heard they're hard to set up properly.