This is somewhat true, bouncing is a part of the 4track sound but here's what you wanna do. I've never done this myself, but it should work). Your multitrack should have a line out, try to find a tape deck with a line in then plug them in. From there you can record your digitrack mix onto a cassette, then record it back onto the multitrack. (I'm not sure if you can record individual tracks, I think you can for sure if you have four line outs). Or maybe you could just run it from digitrqck line out -> tape deck line in -> tape line out -> digi line in. You could use the 1/4 but it will sound worse and definitely won't record individual tracks. Just fuck around and see what works. I've only recorded to tape but I'm sure there's a way to do it.
Cameron Thompson
Also, a daw can do a fine job of emulating tape and it's all for free. I record ro tape mostly for the workflow
Justin Bailey
This post is bullshit. Recording to tape doesn't magically give you your lo-fi indie sound or whatever. >all these zoomers actually think this is the case The "tape effect" you're thinking of isn't accomplished by just recording to tape. There's hundreds of different pedals that do this sound for you.
Wyatt Taylor
Yeah it kinda does. If what you're referring to is wow and flutter, then no it doesn't magically do that, unless your deck is broken. It does have a different sound than recording to a daw (even with plug ins) though. Production requires a different, more thought out approach, you have to know what is going to bounced and to where.
Luis Kelly
Well, doing what OP wants to do will definitely make his sound more shitty and lo-fi in some way. It will definitely add SOME color to his sound because that's just what hardware does to an audio signal.
But I agree that OP obviously seeks something different that is better achieved with a simple plugin in post.
Kayden Myers
>Yeah it kinda does. >Well, doing what OP wants to do will definitely make his sound more shitty and lo-fi in some way. There isn't anything to say this other than it's wrong. OP's question was already answered here >Cassettes aren't as lo-fi as you might think. Anyone that's old enough to have recorded instruments to tape would know this. A clean unaffected guitar signal recorded to cassette and played back will sound like your clean unaffected guitar signal. You could muddy up your tape heads or get a really old deck and produce some different results, but it would be a bigger pain in the ass to have your recording intermittently cut out. What you're hearing on rock albums from the 70's and 80's cut on four tracks has a lot more to do with shitty mics on cabinets driven by shitty amp heads and the master recording being duped on a shitty tape deck. No computers or DI boxes means that's all they had to work with. >But I agree that OP obviously seeks something different that is better achieved with a simple plugin in post. This is closer to a right answer. A tape machine without pitch/tone/time controls isn't an effects module in and of itself.
A cassette is going to sound different than a digital recording no matter what. They can sound great and clear but nowhere near as clean as something from a daw. But yeah the lo fi thing is mostly bad equipment and wacky tracking and production methods.
Michael Ramirez
That's what I'm trying to tell you; the "difference" is inconsequential at anything below 20 dB. The minor tone color that you're gonna get is not what you're looking for.
