RUNNING IT THRU THE 60

What I was planning on doing later on tonight was taking a beat that I got from my homie who produced it(this rapper Im working with) and running it thru the 60 to dirty it up. Then record it to my tascam tape deck.
Then add scratches to it etc..

His shyt is crisp, tight production, but with me, its gotta be somewhat gritty, na mean?

So homie gave me 12 songs to f*ck with. I wonder how he is going to respond to it. Any thoughts?

I think the grit mostly comes from the sound of the vinyl rather than the 60. Too me the 60 keeps shyt tru 2 form when I sample. It sounds just like the record. If his production is real clean you focus on keepin it that way. Because I think the more you "run" it thru shyt it just is gonna add some hiss. Heres an idea though if you want some suddle grit sample some krusty ass vynil with no music or sounds on it and take like a bar or 2 sample of that and just loop it with the song. No expert, just my 2.

DJAndreas

I often run things through the 60 if I am working on someone elses stuff. The cool thing is that you can turn up the input to a little bit of dist. creeps in. It can sound cool, But, I've found it's really trial and error. I've never tried putting a whole mix through though. Infact, It might not work so well due to the 60 being mono. I wouldn't try doing each side of the stereo signal seperately either - that would be asking for trouble unless you were able to manipulate the results in an audio editor to get it back the correct phase relationships.

If I were in your position, I'd try to get hold of the multitrack (or computer sequence session) rather than the stereo file and try running various mono sources through the 60.

I would suggest that putting it down to the four track would be more hiss-inducive.

I have tried running a complete mix through the record heads on my Fostex R8 (which sadly has a busted motor and so can't record to tape ) and got good results. There was an amount of hiss unfortunately, but I didn't let that bother me in the end.

try your experiments, and let us know how it goes.

Nah man, this is a job for the SP-303, totally, just put it in the 303, use some of the effects on the track while it plays (like scratching but with filtering and the low fi, and the tape delay effet, to your 4 track, then scratch over it, maybe add some other samples to it from the 60 or whatever, but put the whole song in the 303 and use that, it can really take that kind of task very easily and can dirty stuff up pretty well.

Of course, iof you had the breakut tracks you could sample the parts into the 60 and do some remixes

Thanks for the feedback y'all