NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 Well, so I bought myself a casette recorder yesterday, one of the reasons why I bought it, is because I want to experiment with taping some of my electro tracks to tape, and then record them back to the computer (to get a dirty effect), but the other reason being, I want to start taping MIXTAPES again. Old goa, electro, psy whatever, just old Mixtapes.... Did you have Mixtapes(especially old goa/psy)? Do you still have some of them? Would you buy a mixtape online if you still could? I know I would, they are sooooo cool! Discuss!
draeke Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 I do have some mixtapes of mine made in 1999 when i was really playing madness 150 bpm pure goa .. that was when i was kinda enlightened ahah but true you are right they sound cool and different, nice idea to record from and then back.. less digital sounding for sure.. nice idea!
NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 draeke said: I do have some mixtapes of mine made in 1999 when i was really playing madness 150 bpm pure goa .. that was when i was kinda enlightened ahah but true you are right they sound cool and different, nice idea to record from and then back.. less digital sounding for sure.. nice idea! 639708[/snapback] I have been reading about it in SOS, and it sounds like a cool effect yeah. What I think is really a pitty though, is that you dont get the mixtapes anymore, I mean... are tehre even people that OWN a casette recorder?
NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 'Death said: What the hell is a cassette old man? 639716[/snapback] faze said: Mixtapes are so 1986. 639719[/snapback] no, its soooo 1994, but thats prolly before your time
Anakoluth Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 i still have a few mixtapes, and i still listen to them! they are from 1995 - 1998 and they really mean something to me! i also have a cool double-deck cassette recorder with which i used to duplicate the tapes for my friends in order to infect them too until 2002 i also used tapes to record radio airings, but then i bought an md. i would still buy decent mixtapes today...but only goa stuff! i was inspired by ott who told in an interview that he sometimes records drumhits to tape, then plays the tape and digitally records it. i used this too once when i made some real dirty hiphop beats for a friend to rap along. nemo, i'll fucking buy your tapes
NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 Anakoluth said: i still have a few mixtapes, and i still listen to them! they are from 1995 - 1998 and they really mean something to me! i also have a cool double-deck cassette recorder with which i used to duplicate the tapes for my friends in order to infect them too until 2002 i also used tapes to record radio airings, but then i bought an md. i would still buy decent mixtapes today...but only goa stuff! i was inspired by ott who told in an interview that he sometimes records drumhits to tape, then plays the tape and digitally records it. i used this too once when i made some real dirty hiphop beats for a friend to rap along. nemo, i'll fucking buy your tapes 639743[/snapback] Cool!!! I was thinking to take around 3 dollars per tape, or something, its one dollar or more for a high quality tape, and then post and package should be around 1 or 2 dollars as well, depending where you send them too, of course Ill let yall know when the first one is done
DeathPosture Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 nemo said: Cool!!! I was thinking to take around 3 dollars per tape, or something, its one dollar or more for a high quality tape, and then post and package should be around 1 or 2 dollars as well, depending where you send them too, of course Ill let yall know when the first one is done 639747[/snapback] Like an analogue version of allofmp3.com?
Anakoluth Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 i just thought about this stuff a bit, and got to the conclusion that i rather love all this old stuff. when i'm extremely bored, i sometimes play super mario bros on the old nintendo entertainment system, this grey box with cartridges almost as big as a vhs tape i also love to play dad's old 26 centimetres tapes on the revox. old record carriers were just a lot more stylish than nowadays cd's or, even worse, lame mp3 sticks so tiny that you can wear them as jewellery. pfffff!
faze Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 nemo said: no, its soooo 1994, but thats prolly before your time 639729[/snapback] Nope. Not before my time. In 1986 I was making mixtapes for the chicks. That was the old cliche method of getting to the girl, make her a mixtape. Showing my age here.
NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 faze said: Nope. Not before my time. In 1986 I was making mixtapes for the chicks. That was the old cliche method of getting to the girl, make her a mixtape. Showing my age here. 639759[/snapback] Haha, you are older than me... OLD MAN!!
NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 'Death said: Like an analogue version of allofmp3.com? 639755[/snapback] beyond that!
supergroover Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 hehe i just got myself the old 8 bit nintendo as well.. hitech! to stay on topic: for sampling purposes i understand. for nostalgia i understand. But any other reason: fuck it. There is digital effects now to get the same effect as the old audio equipment or you could set your sampler back to 8 bit. using an tapedeck seems like alot of unnecesarry work. Threw away all the old tapes the other day.. only kept one from a befriended artist to show him when he is a famous musician
NEMO.BOFH Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 supergroover said: hehe i just got myself the old 8 bit nintendo as well.. hitech! to stay on topic: for sampling purposes i understand. for nostalgia i understand. But any other reason: fuck it. There is digital effects now to get the same effect as the old audio equipment or you could set your sampler back to 8 bit. using an tapedeck seems like alot of unnecesarry work. Threw away all the old tapes the other day.. only kept one from a befriended artist to show him when he is a famous musician 639791[/snapback] Ummm im calling shits on you, the people that I read using this technology is people like Peter Gabriel etc etc... its a SOUND that you want to create, a FEELING.... There are just SOME things that you CAN NO re-create digitally.... warmth and love are 2 of them
Goazzz... Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 I've lots of tapes, recorded from a radio station that was playing goa-psy every weekend for 2 hours in the afternoons! That was in 1994.... I also have Hallucinogen's twisted on tape! Nemo you reminded me to take a look in my tapes now! I'm sure i have lots of good stuff there! Memories! Ps....No i wouldn't buy a cassete online now. Yes i still have a tape recorder at home, working only as radios though!
radi6404 Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 nemo said: Well, so I bought myself a casette recorder yesterday, one of the reasons why I bought it, is because I want to experiment with taping some of my electro tracks to tape, and then record them back to the computer (to get a dirty effect), but the other reason being, I want to start taping MIXTAPES again. Old goa, electro, psy whatever, just old Mixtapes.... Did you have Mixtapes(especially old goa/psy)? Do you still have some of them? Would you buy a mixtape online if you still could? I know I would, they are sooooo cool! Discuss! 639686[/snapback] A "dirty" effect is very easy to create with various effects over a mixer in a musicprogram, you just load the tracks and add the "dirty" effect with some compressors and other stuff, i don´t know if it is possible with compressors but it for sure is possible with all in one mastering packs and maximizers, you can easily get a "dirty" effect by setting the treshold to a wrong value, but i don´t know if you have expensive software with which you can do taht like me.
radi6404 Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 Goazzz... said: I've lots of tapes, recorded from a radio station that was playing goa-psy every weekend for 2 hours in the afternoons! That was in 1994.... I also have Hallucinogen's twisted on tape! Nemo you reminded me to take a look in my tapes now! I'm sure i have lots of good stuff there! Memories! Ps....No i wouldn't buy a cassete online now. Yes i still have a tape recorder at home, working only as radios though! 639825[/snapback] My dream would be a local radiostation that plays only oldschool/newschool goa and psychedelic ambient 24/7, i am pretty sure that if there would be one in bulgaria more and more people would listen to it and like the music.
Spiritual Carnage Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 radi6404 said: A "dirty" effect is very easy to create with various effects over a mixer in a musicprogram, you just load the tracks and add the "dirty" effect with some compressors and other stuff, i don´t know if it is possible with compressors but it for sure is possible with all in one mastering packs and maximizers, you can easily get a "dirty" effect by setting the treshold to a wrong value, but i don´t know if you have expensive software with which you can do taht like me. 639864[/snapback] Sure it's easy to make a "dirty" effect i a lot of ways, but not the way a tapedeck does. Makers of expensive plug-ins (or at least Universal Audio) are trying hard to replicate that sound digitally, but none have yet done that fully satisfying. At least not when it comes to tape-delay
radi6404 Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 Spiritual Carnage said: Sure it's easy to make a "dirty" effect i a lot of ways, but not the way a tapedeck does. Makers of expensive plug-ins (or at least Universal Audio) are trying hard to replicate that sound digitally, but none have yet done that fully satisfying. At least not when it comes to tape-delay 639898[/snapback] I find waves plugins very good in General and use them, they are apsolutely amazing for mastering songs and with them i am able to recreate a similar noicse to the sound of cassettes but i first must know how it sounds exaclty, then i can recreate it easily. It sure won´t sound 100% like copying from cassette but it would not sound bad.
Goa Bill Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 faze said: Nope. Not before my time. In 1986 I was making mixtapes for the chicks. That was the old cliche method of getting to the girl, make her a mixtape. Showing my age here. 639759[/snapback] Hey i made mix cds for a girl. Didn't work though nemo said: There are just SOME things that you CAN NO re-create digitally.... warmth and love are 2 of them 639800[/snapback] BS, love is digital.
radi6404 Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 Quote Nope. Not before my time. In 1986 I was making mixtapes for the chicks. That was the old cliche method of getting to the girl, make her a mixtape. Showing my age here. I probably will try it, i doubt it will work, it should be that easy
fosku Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 radi6404 said: A "dirty" effect is very easy to create with various effects over a mixer in a musicprogram, you just load the tracks and add the "dirty" effect with some compressors and other stuff, i don´t know if it is possible with compressors but it for sure is possible with all in one mastering packs and maximizers, you can easily get a "dirty" effect by setting the treshold to a wrong value, but i don´t know if you have expensive software with which you can do taht like me. 639864[/snapback] It's hard to create an effect exactly like tape distortion. And I guess Nemo has some expensive software and hardware much much more than you do being a music producer, so don't start boasting with you're warez software.
RTP Posted November 11, 2006 Posted November 11, 2006 I would buy a mixtape any time if I could - if it was a good one. And not only mixtapes ... I also still buy real albums on cassette tapes (legally released ones, not illegal copies!). Last week I found Front Line Assembly - Monument cassette tape (still sealed) for 4,50 Euro...
Recommended Posts