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Tape Loop and Radio
a bit different approach this time. I started off scanning the AM Radio on the ion Retro Rocker @Edward_Alexander showed me and running that into one track on my 4 track Tascam.
Then i played an old tape loop i made years ago using the retro rocker, it did not sound right at all, but it sounded cool, i ran that into the second track on my tascam.
Track 3 on the Tascam is Samplr (playing a Billie Eilish sample turned into a pad), and track 4 is iDensity playing a very reverbed out (alteza) vocal sample and some birds chirping.
I then performed the tape using the tascams mixer and eq, and ran the output into ableton where i used Fab Filter suite and Plugin Alliance stuff for "mastering".
The result is pretty noisey and nonsensical, but i like it.
Comments
Really loved this... Gonna guess @Svetlovska will dig this kind of experimentation
@senhorlampada awesome. thank you so much for listening. im glad you like it!
Wicked man! I’m so glad you’re putting the Retro Rocker to some good use!
I can’t wait till I have time to go through this case of classical music libraries on cassette I found and do some sampling like this. Well maybe not just like this! lol Hey, are you using some kind of speed control on the RR yet?
Dope! So the TASCAM is basically a mixer where you can take a handful of different inputs and combine them into one recording? Or… ? Go slow, I know next to nothing about hardware but I checked out that retrorocker and I want one. What’s a good way to be able to record on tape (cheap)?
@Edward_Alexander not yet, theres some light pitch warble on this track from the Tascam. but havent had a chance to dig into the RR more. ill get around to it this week. hopefully i can open it up without cracking it.
@Obo the Tascam is a 4 track tape recorder that i record the takes to, then playback the tape and adjust the vol, panning, and eq of each track live. as well as master pitch control knob. theres also some sends, which can be really fun with a kaoss pad etc, but i didnt have it set up for this track..
This is great! Really well done.
Nice.
Been having much similar fun of late with WebSDR, Stratosphere & Gauss
Really like this, thanks for sharing it!!!
@shinyisshiny : great work, and using a 4 track too - old school, love it!, especially the varispeeded textures. Getting impatient for my own recently ordered varispeed tape gizmo now:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/854949337/the-tapeworm-speed-etc-modified-tape
@senhorlampada : you’re right, this is definitely up my alley
Til my tapeworm arrives, I can varispeed my own Yamaha 4 track, or just fake it.
One way to simulate live varispeeding that I have used for example, is to put an Art Kerns MidiLFO to controlling an AUM FilePlayer Rate parameter. You can also get momentary tape slew effects by putting your fingers on the ‘reels’ of the RE-1 tape delay https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/re-1-tape-machine/id1407764053, which I think is pretty unique, very interactive, and, uh, ‘immersive’...
Apologies both for the tardiness of my response btw - I’ve been off grid for a few days. @Paul16 : be interested to hear what your experiments have produced too?