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Shoutout to the 1987 four track that taught me to stop polishing my demos
I dug my dad's old Yamaha MT4X out of his garage in Tacoma and recorded six songs straight to cassette over a weekend, hiss and all. I figured I'd clean up the tracks later in Audacity, but when I A/B'd them against my old interface recordings, the tape versions just sounded better, warmer and more alive. Spent 3 hours trying to copy that sound with plugins and got nowhere close. Turns out the rough takes with the band all playing in one room were the thing I kept chasing, so now I just hit record and stop fussing. Anyone here still tracking to tape, or is it all digital for you?
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anderson.spencer17d ago
My joke is that I spent more on plugins to sound like tape than the tape machine cost in the first place, and I still failed. The flat truth is tape smooths out the bad stuff for you, and plugins just sit there waiting for you to know what you're doing. Tracking live in one room beats any of it though, so keep hitting record.
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