
This is a re-mix of the song I submitted yesterday. It's a faux-1967 psychedelic song recorded with most of the limitations of the day (only 4 tracks, no noise reduction etc). I'm going to keep both versions up because I like them both in different ways.
Technical details:
Delay on the vocals was done by reconfiguring a spare tape deck to do 15ips slapback echo, as would have been done in Abbey Road. The song was laid down on four tracks, comprising drums, vocals, horns and everything else. The end result was mixed in mono through a pair of spare decks (the ones in the picture) configured to do proper 1960s-style tape flanging (with the multitrack and the mastering deck, that's four machines running simultaneously). I was a little less heavy-handed on the phasing effect this time.
Technical details:
Delay on the vocals was done by reconfiguring a spare tape deck to do 15ips slapback echo, as would have been done in Abbey Road. The song was laid down on four tracks, comprising drums, vocals, horns and everything else. The end result was mixed in mono through a pair of spare decks (the ones in the picture) configured to do proper 1960s-style tape flanging (with the multitrack and the mastering deck, that's four machines running simultaneously). I was a little less heavy-handed on the phasing effect this time.
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this is awesome :D and i appreciate your efforts at purely analog era recording,
the vocals seem a little too high in amplitude to me though, but that may have been your preference, the only other thing that sort of throws me off is how clean sounding it is :D i have never heard a 60s song sound that pure.
my dad has an old reel-to-reel we record on sometimes,
i love it.
this has a sort of VERY early pink floyd sound to it,
and i like it,
the subject manner of course... fish sticks.. XD i prefer Pizza Rolls :D
of side note: i found a battery powered Sony portable reel-to-reel at a yard sale,
when i got it home and got it running, the tape had morse code on it from amateur radio, i decoded it and it was a newsletter dated November 14 1974 :D
the vocals seem a little too high in amplitude to me though, but that may have been your preference, the only other thing that sort of throws me off is how clean sounding it is :D i have never heard a 60s song sound that pure.
my dad has an old reel-to-reel we record on sometimes,
i love it.
this has a sort of VERY early pink floyd sound to it,
and i like it,
the subject manner of course... fish sticks.. XD i prefer Pizza Rolls :D
of side note: i found a battery powered Sony portable reel-to-reel at a yard sale,
when i got it home and got it running, the tape had morse code on it from amateur radio, i decoded it and it was a newsletter dated November 14 1974 :D
Thanks for the fav. I've been doing this for about five years now and I always seem to set the voice to be too prominent in the mix. Ah well. And yes, it does sound a bit too clean somehow, which is quite odd given what it's been put through.
I think what inspired me to do this was a combination of two things - the "Dukes of Stratosphear" album which did a very good job of emulating the 60s material-wise, but from the way they'd recorded the drums you could tell it was done on a 24-track machine (it was done in 1985). The second factor was my recently acquiring a 3-CD set of psychedelic songs and realising that many of them were about absurd, trivial things. Hence the subject matter.
Anyway, sounds like you had an interesting find, there. During the 'great tape crisis' of 2004-2005 when Quantegy folded, I snagged some second-hand tape as a precaution. That had some weird things... one of them seems to be the multitrack for a children's story, with the narration on one track and a stereo pair for a piano score.
I think what inspired me to do this was a combination of two things - the "Dukes of Stratosphear" album which did a very good job of emulating the 60s material-wise, but from the way they'd recorded the drums you could tell it was done on a 24-track machine (it was done in 1985). The second factor was my recently acquiring a 3-CD set of psychedelic songs and realising that many of them were about absurd, trivial things. Hence the subject matter.
Anyway, sounds like you had an interesting find, there. During the 'great tape crisis' of 2004-2005 when Quantegy folded, I snagged some second-hand tape as a precaution. That had some weird things... one of them seems to be the multitrack for a children's story, with the narration on one track and a stereo pair for a piano score.
I like those psychedelic songs about simplistic stuff.
(i like lots of different kinds of music though)
a few of my favorites are:
Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and peppermints"
Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" and "Bike"
The Beatles's "Strawberry Fields Forever"
I dont have any nice reel-to-reels decks but i do have a Nakamichi 500 and a Harmon/Kardon CD191 Cassette deck :)
My dad has a reel that date back to the late 60's
they were recorded off a rock and roll FM radio station,
it includes commercial breaks and the DJ announcing the songs, in one instant he announces: "Jimi Hendrix's new hit "All Along The Watchtower" "
(the tape includes Donovan, The Doors, Creme, Hendrix, and a few others)
its in good quality too! and its 2 hours long (a+b sides)
(i like lots of different kinds of music though)
a few of my favorites are:
Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and peppermints"
Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" and "Bike"
The Beatles's "Strawberry Fields Forever"
I dont have any nice reel-to-reels decks but i do have a Nakamichi 500 and a Harmon/Kardon CD191 Cassette deck :)
My dad has a reel that date back to the late 60's
they were recorded off a rock and roll FM radio station,
it includes commercial breaks and the DJ announcing the songs, in one instant he announces: "Jimi Hendrix's new hit "All Along The Watchtower" "
(the tape includes Donovan, The Doors, Creme, Hendrix, and a few others)
its in good quality too! and its 2 hours long (a+b sides)
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