Cassette to Digital-
A small trip out to the 'burbs for a digital experience proved to be rewarding. Doug is building an impresive recording setup in his home.
A nice little room, that is going to be converted into a small studio.
He's got some nice gear too! Nice microphones, a nice pre, a huge tascam digital board, mackie hr824 monitors, a beast of a computer....
anyways its funny for me to do it, cause im still new at all of this and i love this whole analouge thing, dare i go through the digital realm? hey why not, its there for me to use, and it'll sound fine. a nice breed of A/D.
So on with it. The portastudio 488 i have only does 4 groups out. Luckily it has two efx sends that i can use for 6 out at once. not bad. we decide to test each track out, to make sure the signal isnt too messed up, and everything sounds fine so we go ahead and start to dump the tracks in. one song has 7 tracks so we have to figure out how to do that. we decide to "overdub" the extra track and slide it into place so it fits in time, and we also think ahead to dump in a track that will be easy to match visualy, since we can see those cool waveforms in samplitude. the stereo drum tracks are perfect for this and we go ahead and proceed. we dump in the first 6 tracks and then go back to dump in the Rightside of the drums. After that we go back to align them in place. wait, they arent matching. are they? Ok, we line up the drum stick clicks at the begining of the song and they are in time with the Lefside of the drums,.....at the begining of the song, but not near the end. they slowly get further and further out of time.(which now that i think of it sounds like a cool idea).
What must've happened is that the tape speed chagned a little, some sort of wear and tear to the tape motor, or some other fluxuation.
Great, so for now we decide to go with mono drums for this song, and just copy and paste a second track to "beef" it up. Maybe we will try it again and dump in a diferent part...
This brings us to date, where we have vocals left to do out at the dig-doug studio and then on to mixing.
