VHS

has anyone tried recording tracks to VHS tape, then recoding them back into your multi-track? it gives a really tight sound esp. if your using synths and don't like them sounding plastic. I think there was a topic on this before awhile ago.

there was. and i'm actually about to pick up a svhs player because of it.

i'm pretty excited, it sounds like a really cool trick.

I'd much rather record through nice solidstate or tube pres to get warmth than a VHS tape. That used to be the thing to do back in the day, before DAWs were common. Because of the rise of ADATs and DA88s, people felt they could get the same thing by recording to their videocassettes, though they were/are different beasts than your garden variety, home video recorder. Many liked the sound, but like Doomdada said, you got the noise...and that was your perceived "warmth".
Peace

*tape adds low end harmonics that otherwise you wouldn't get
**you can clip on tape to great effect
***noise is low level and negligible w/ a good recorder

*****svhs recorders can be obtained on the cheap.

Antonym wrote:*tape adds low end harmonics that otherwise you wouldn't get
**you can clip on tape to great effect
***noise is low level and negligible w/ a good recorder

*****svhs recorders can be obtained on the cheap.

I just stopped by to say "hey nym, fuk u!"

And I also was told by a forum member that recordering to VHS makes your drums sound dope. Too much work for me though.

why not just get a multitrack cassette recorder?

pad-ophiliac wrote:why not just get a multitrack cassette recorder?

Because were not talking about that. were talking about a vhs tape.

Jacpot wrote:

pad-ophiliac wrote:why not just get a multitrack cassette recorder?

Because were not talking about that. were talking about a vhs tape.

Jacpot wrote:

pad-ophiliac wrote:why not just get a multitrack cassette recorder?

Because were not talking about that. were talking about a vhs tape.

hey thats cool with me. go all around your **** to get where you're going. i don't care.

What is the difference between a svhs player and a vhs player?

Sampling from VHS
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... hlight=vhs

VHS Recording
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... hlight=vhs

i've used audio cassesttes in my beats before..............had a proper scratchy sample, sumfing from the 40s and the drums i were using on it sounding 2 new, so took my drum looped, recorded it onto an old audio tape, and then played that shit into my beat

BRAP

drums sound dirty and crackly, gave the beat a proper old skool sound........

like winston churchil met primo

but that was all on fruity loops coz i am yet to buy an mpc

but soon my friends very soon

eh?
i think a VHS tape, be it brand new & recorded with a brand new videoplayer, kindof sounds POOR
... I rather record to small audio tapes ....

the audio might sound poor on a VCR because the tape is sharing data between audio and video.

If you fill the tape with only audio data, you get a VERY GOOD analog sound, rich and warm. Sounds WAY better than an audio cassette tape.
It's not a 2" Studer, but its close, and its an affordable, approachable way to record in analog.

Check my soundclick...all were recorded to VHS tape first.

TicToc wrote:the audio might sound poor on a VCR because the tape is sharing data between audio and video.

If you fill the tape with only audio data, you get a VERY GOOD analog sound, rich and warm. Sounds WAY better than an audio cassette tape.
It's not a 2" Studer, but its close, and its an affordable, approachable way to record in analog.

Check my soundclick...all were recorded to VHS tape first.

so, you're talking about using the video part of the tape for audio? if so, how would you do this, as vhs recorders by default will not? i guess some circuit bending is the order of the day, or have i missed something?

cheers man.