Jul 24, 2007 10:18 am I like saturating tracks, but I no longer ever leave the digital domain to do it. Plugs like Magneto, Vintage Warmer and such do a fabulous job of saturation and allows you to stay digital.
tape saturation
Posted on Jul 24, 2007 10:07 am
keith jumawan
Member Since: Jul 25, 2005
im sure someones tried this before . . . is it a bad idea to use a cassette recorder to saturate your digital tracks? . . . heres what i was thinking . . . export 24bit stereo into har-bal / harbalize without limiting / stereo out from my soundcard to a cassette recorder(maybe one of those 4track cassette recorders) / record cassette recorder back into my computer / export into harbal for limiting and dithering to 16bit . . . whats everyones thought on this?
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Jul 24, 2007 10:18 am I like saturating tracks, but I no longer ever leave the digital domain to do it. Plugs like Magneto, Vintage Warmer and such do a fabulous job of saturation and allows you to stay digital.
Jul 24, 2007 10:58 am yeah standard cassette decks suck...very noizy and hissy...if ya get a good reel-to-reel then yeah ppl do this all the time.
Jul 24, 2007 11:27 am The 2 songs in my music page were recorded live on a tascam 238 8-track recorder several years ago. I recently transfered them and remixed them with tracktion 3 on the computer. No doubt in my mind it would have been cleaner without the tape noise. But if the levels are up enough I suppose that might defeat a good bit of that. I'd be interested in knowing how it comes out for you, because I haven't done any recording in the digital realm yet. It may be useful in the future for me.
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