The "Not following my assignment" thing happens to me constantly. When I have a particular style/idea in mind and I want to execute it, I always end up with something completely different. But that's the beauty of it I think. I let the song guide me and take me where it wants to be. I like where this song took you and itself.
Interesting that the analog engineers of the old times were happy to move to digital, but a ton of people now are going back to analog despite all the inconveniences. Myself included...
good lord you talk like you failed the assignment there at first but you have created the grooviest warm jazzy jam I've heard in a long long while lol. that was epic.
You've pulled from the audio library in the sky and made a dope track. And it's definitely hip hop. It pulls from different genres and creates it's own. Outstanding!
Gotta break out that casio in the next video! I have that same one and have found some nice totally usable sounds on it. Also the drum loops on it are fun to run through pedals to get some cool vibes to layer with your main drum kit
@@travisraab yeah I’m a musician myself and I like to find content of others writing process and just having fun instead of just a generic video of whatever.
i always wanted to record in analog, but yeah, I live in Malaysia, and there’s not much second hand analog recording device in my country plus if there is, it’s gonna be waaayyyy expensive. keep up the good content man, hopefully we’ll become like you someday. cheers! ☺️
The battle to get highs back as the highs are rolling off each time the tape gets played. Then the journey of the analog mix. I spent the entire 1980s analog. It sure is a journey. Your new genre was strangely soothing. Elevator Ska
My first experience in music production was working in a studio that was just doing the transition to digital (this was way back in 1998ish). I almost lost my marbles with the analog gear with the exact same issues you were facing. We used a ton of expanders and whatnot to artificially stretch the range but you can only go so far. Once it started to move into digital, it just fealt so freeing, but we were having a lot of issues with the AD/DA blocks and the computers struggling to keep up etc. When I left, I woved to never work with analog gear again, but I still do come back to it even today. :D
Hello! Well I just got a tascam m216 ! For a helluva deal and looked everywhere for instructions or things I would need like cables to go into an interface or how all the knobs work and what they do , a video like that would be rad , a video manual on getting started
Btw you're salvage mindset inspired me to want to build a custom pedal board with some scrap wood I had from an old taekwondo belt rack and I think it's gonna turn out really sweet!
I miss analog, I started out with the 4 track Tascam, JV-110, JV-880, JV-1080, XP-80 DDD1 Drum machine and 8 second food sampler. Thank you for the memories.💯
Bro, I'm loving the journey. You surely have immersed yourself in these creative waters. The YT algorithm doesn't always put your current vids in front of me. But always great when I make an effort to stay current. Pretty soon, Peeps will pay you to engineer for them. As to catch a bit of that "sound" your developing in that space. Keep em coming.
hey man! good to hear from you it's been a minute. yeah that's weird how that algorithm works. man that'll be the day that would be cool haha! i'm happy you made the effort to keep in touch thank you!
@@travisraab Definitely you should keep a high ratio of tuneage to pedagogical info. As the french say "pour faire plus d'un heureux, offrez plus d'un fromage."
@@travisraab the reel to reel side isn’t working (stop, rev, play ect) the mixer does work however, been using it for channel strips, and it sounds pretty good considering.
just opened my 388 up, sure enough the belt was goo.. cleaned it all out, and recalibrating the tension now.. thanks for the inspiration on DIY’ing it, channel strips sound excellent🤘
I use a 4 track reel to reel and building a song with many parts is wild. Record three tracks, mix down to one, record two more tracks, mix down to one, repeat. So you need to guess at what level the first guitar part you recorded will need to be at several mix downs later when it can't be undone. Very jealous of that 8 track you've got.
hi Marcos! it has like one good sound. I used it on another tune ua-cam.com/video/FmtfRXWZTjw/v-deo.html I'll try to make another song that works for it!
i cant believe the sound of that epi sg, mate! love your content! Greetings from Chile! (did i sound like an e.t. alien when i say: "greetings"? ...i can feel it)
I just got a digital recorder/mixer after recording analog for 25+ years. Still keeping it DAWless. Having a bit of trouble getting some things to sound right with digital. 😢
@@travisraab I have no idea, but…I think people in their 20s consumed music in such a way, on such a vast scale of genres that when we make music it’s hard to say what it is, if that makes sense? As for the guitar, I’d love one of them, I don’t think I could ever bring myself to sell a guitar hahah
I read a quote from Bob Ohlsson of Motown recently that he did several different mixdowns and was reall intuitive with the automation, doing things on the fly he couldnt recreate and then cut and spliced the best parts of the mixes together. He said he still does this straight into protools. He said Motown had the first automation desk, but they actually had it removed from the desk once in a service, because they preferred the method above. Now he just records his mixes as playlists stright into protools and then comps the best bits together and says its still quicker than adding automation after the fact. Anyways, thought you might find this information useful!
The barn studio looks so warm and welcoming (especially with this music) . Are you planning on continuing the barn studio series? I binged them in one sitting and now something's missing from my life.
I am actually kind of doing something like what you are doing where I am collecting older/salvaged material to make music with. Slow process but it is fun and enjoyable. One of these days I will update my channel to have these things. I am taking a weirder approach as I like to add amience and noise in my stuff (also makes better use of my lack of expertise, just a fun hobby). It is inspiring to see you do something like this and makes me want to do the same with my tape recorder (I got a tascam 414 for like $22 and all it needed was a new capacitor, it was one of my fav purchases). Keep it up, Trav :)
@@travisraab I am sorry I meant to say 414, my brain is foggy this morning lol, but it works wonders for me and what I want to do. Will keep posted mainly by video uploading. We will see when lol
@@travisraab the situation is horrible! Me and my wife escape from Kharkiv , it was a nightmare - russians bombs our city intensively! They destroyed our beautiful city, our home! Their soldiers are losers! All they can do - to kill peaceful people like in Bucha or Irpin... But we stand strong! Sorry to write this words, your channel is not about war or politic...
Awesome vid! Definitely excited to see that Casio though. Those are so fun to make beats with. It’d be interesting to combine a stock Casio beat with live drums. And then maybe little keys too!
Man.. you are really tired. Perception of reality @ 3:27AM.. health coachers would use this video as a warning example for lack of sleep! I almost fell a sleep watching you been tired; and it's morning here right now, well 10:30AM. Contagious! But I'm impressed of the energy you put into it all! It sounds.. work in progress? It's interesting to hear your own thoughts about the mixing part and how easy it is to get lost in details. Thanks for another great video! I enjoy them very much!
Maybe get a reverb and delay for your aux returns, and a compressor for your mix bus after tape to polish the mix. I think you would be in good shape then. Lexicon MX200 series is cheap and really good.
Love the Track and your Channel :) but please play that casio in the 388 :p no just joking if you to that the noiselevel will be higher than me on a Amsterdam bar Tour
All nostalgia aside. I think working with analog will make you a better producer. Mic placement, eq of amp beforehand. Analog is also kind of unforgiving. Not to mention there's a certain amount of surprise when you hear it back on tape, like wow tape made that nasty tone sound sweet, or whoa where's all the air. I just did my first bounce on 246, and I was like wow came out 10 times louder than expected had to redo it. But the amount of fun and enthusiasm of working with tape, a song that ain't even that cool, the simplest riff ever, sometimes on tape your like yeah I wanna work with that. Tape has made me appreciate digital, but digital has made me long for sweet syrupy tape
Can we get a video where you use the 388 as a guitar tape echo effect? If it doesn't have direct outs you could use the insert as one, then capture the echo after it hits the tape. I think that would be a cool upload.
@@travisraab so you take the original signal from the "access" send on that machine (looks like thats what your insert is called) and record that into your daw, or one of your portable studios. So that's your signal with no latency. Then that signal should still be going to tape on the Tascam 388. The time it takes to go from the record head to the play head creates a delay. The slower tape speed ips you use the longer the delay. Then you capture the stereo out after tape. Send that to your Daw or portastudio. Blend the tape signal to taste. Works with vocals to. That's how they got the John Lennon double tracks.
@@travisraab I think that would cause a nasty feedback. No you would have to record onto another tape machine or into your daw. I have an idea. How about use your new portastudio. Capture your guitar the way you normally would either going direct in, or amping it up on the portastudio. Then, use the aux on the Portastudio sending to the tascam. Then send the out of the tascam after it hits the tape back into your portastudio through the aux return. Then you can use the aux fader knob on the portastudio to control the delay. Or you could bring it back in on a whole other channel that way you can use eq, and pan it, etc. So in a sense your just using the tascam as a big a** guitar pedal, or piece of outboard gear.
The bit about playing the “wrong note” after thinking it sounded good is the story of my life when writing songs. I’ll be like “it’s okay if it sounds weird bc I think it sounds good” and when I listen to it later it only sounds weird… and not good
thanks Paulius! most of these are stock jazz chords. I would learn 2 5 1 in both major and minor using 7th chords. That'll get you 75% of the way there!
I like the fat analog sound. I run my tracks thru analog mixers , eq and tape. I then saturate , mix and edit using a DAW and a digital mixer with automated faders. . I can move faster in the digital domain with total recall of projects. I use analog first though ...
Yoo mann!! I have a question for you.. I've always thought about ... How long can you use and reuse tape? I mean.. Do you have to change tape every time you make a mistake or can you delete the recorded sound? Make a video about it!
so you can reuse tape as much as you want, but some sounds kind of get imprinted and they can be faintly heard. no you don't have to change tape with every mistake.
How did you clean up all that old dusty recording gear? Any products you recommend? just bought a fostex cassette recorder and it works, but super dirty
maybe next time you should make song with viewers, for the example you make one path of instrument and the rest of it subscribers, or just give us your recorded sound path and see some remix and remasters, it coudl be intresting
Maybe use both heads on the kick and make sure you move the mic away from the batter head a bit? sounds too attacky as oppose to an actual kick drum tone
thank you! i actually want to do that. it's INSANE that we keep trying to make something that isn't just like this kick drum. why am i trying to make it something that it isnt? why not embrace what I have. i was seriously planning on making a video like that. good thinking Daniel!
@@travisraab it really is insane. Digital is the answer to all the issues with analogue. If you do the digital video you could even got to extremes and record everything in 8 bit...maybe that's too far though 😅
well these things get a lot of compression the way i used them. the drums and bass get squashed when i hit the tape hard. the overdrive pedal compressed the bass, and the same pedal into the tube amp compresses before it even reaches tape. and then just tape in general compresses. and then when i master it gets compressed and limited. yes the guitar amp and the overdrive pedal both have eq that i used. and there's eq on the board.
Oh snap, remixing a tune three times is such drudgery! I can’t think of a single track that didn’t get mixed a dozen times before it was done in my world.
man what's up with your the face , every time you pickup an instrument hhhh. i found a tascam 106 for sale do you think worth investing . thanks for the videos man
i got a bad case of bass face yassin. i never messed with a 106. but i guess if you can rank mount it, it might be efficient and might generate some white noise for you
headsup this channel is going to the moon p.s. please stop putting yourself down after doing things with good technique like eqing the kick, you either look like you're insecure and don't know anything or you look like a narcissist who really thinks they are great at everything and makes up for it with self deprecation (narcissists DO this)... that goes for every artist here.
is it possible to be both? you are def right with your diagnosis lol. regarding the channel, thank you! that would be awesome. these vids are my hobby :)
@@travisraab Just putting some thoughts out there. I am a recovering self-doubter. I just think if you are putting a video together with all your experience and craftsmanship, give the audience faith that you are excited about what you are doing. Your videos are awesome so maybe using a different tone in your edits that doesn't put you down would probably give your channel the kind of confidence that takes it the extra mile. At least that's what I'd like to see 🙂
I seriously want you out of your comfort zone. Sing, put some overdrive onto shit, make that casio sound weird. The world doesn't need another chill Neo Soul Hip-Hop vibes track. We don't!!
How I invented the world's greatest kick ua-cam.com/video/hTpgmcspcA0/v-deo.html
The "Not following my assignment" thing happens to me constantly. When I have a particular style/idea in mind and I want to execute it, I always end up with something completely different. But that's the beauty of it I think. I let the song guide me and take me where it wants to be. I like where this song took you and itself.
Like a Ouija board! Thanks Alexander
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Interesting that the analog engineers of the old times were happy to move to digital, but a ton of people now are going back to analog despite all the inconveniences. Myself included...
The grass is always greener!
We miss full sound waves lol. Easier doesn't always mean better.
good lord you talk like you failed the assignment there at first but you have created the grooviest warm jazzy jam I've heard in a long long while lol. that was epic.
dude this is absolutely amazing and any hip hop song would absolutely be a billboard top 100 hit if this was the track they would sample from
You've pulled from the audio library in the sky and made a dope track. And it's definitely hip hop. It pulls from different genres and creates it's own. Outstanding!
Thanks!
ANALOG WILL ALWAYS WIN!!.. love these vids. Taking us back to the vintage world again. Keep it up brotha
Always! i agree 100% mone!!
Love watching these Travis, I hope you can make a living on this and keep it going. Everyone can see how much energy is put into each one.
hi Lungi! wow that would be amazing. just need another 100k to do that haha. i enjoy the videos glad you like them
@@travisraab slow and steady...you got this brothertown
The mix tips are honestly the best 🎉
thanks Elijah!
Analog is this great black box to me so thanks for the breakdown 🎉🎉🎉
Gotta break out that casio in the next video! I have that same one and have found some nice totally usable sounds on it. Also the drum loops on it are fun to run through pedals to get some cool vibes to layer with your main drum kit
which sounds do you use?
@@travisraab my favorites are “chorus”, “flute”, and “strings” settings!
@@jamesongerdon yeah the chorus one is my fav
Would love to hear some DeMarco style stuff with that Casio
That's a good idea London. I can make some for you
Dude I love just watching you mess around, it’s great 😂
Thanks Lucas! That's really cool to hear
@@travisraab yeah I’m a musician myself and I like to find content of others writing process and just having fun instead of just a generic video of whatever.
i always wanted to record in analog, but yeah, I live in Malaysia, and there’s not much second hand analog recording device in my country plus if there is, it’s gonna be waaayyyy expensive. keep up the good content man, hopefully we’ll become like you someday. cheers! ☺️
I have a friend in Malaysia. Do you know Jasdev? 😂
@@travisraab 🤣 if you give me his instagram maybe I can check him out
The battle to get highs back as the highs are rolling off each time the tape gets played. Then the journey of the analog mix. I spent the entire 1980s analog. It sure is a journey. Your new genre was strangely soothing. Elevator Ska
do you lose highs every single time it plays?
My first experience in music production was working in a studio that was just doing the transition to digital (this was way back in 1998ish). I almost lost my marbles with the analog gear with the exact same issues you were facing. We used a ton of expanders and whatnot to artificially stretch the range but you can only go so far.
Once it started to move into digital, it just fealt so freeing, but we were having a lot of issues with the AD/DA blocks and the computers struggling to keep up etc. When I left, I woved to never work with analog gear again, but I still do come back to it even today. :D
so cool to hear your experience. very interesting to hear your insights. thank you!
Hello! Well I just got a tascam m216 ! For a helluva deal and looked everywhere for instructions or things I would need like cables to go into an interface or how all the knobs work and what they do , a video like that would be rad , a video manual on getting started
I would really love to see an in depth tutorial on how to use the 388/ how to record on a tape machine!
cool mason i'll try to bust one out!
Btw you're salvage mindset inspired me to want to build a custom pedal board with some scrap wood I had from an old taekwondo belt rack and I think it's gonna turn out really sweet!
thats all you need quincy! very cool to hear that
It was jazzy. No wrong notes in jazz as long as you randomly hit them all.
This is such a fun jam are you kidding??
hey gracias quincy!
I miss analog, I started out with the 4 track Tascam, JV-110, JV-880, JV-1080, XP-80 DDD1 Drum machine and 8 second food sampler. Thank you for the memories.💯
very cool!
finally, a video that shows the actual creative process
Bro, I'm loving the journey. You surely have immersed yourself in these creative waters. The YT algorithm doesn't always put your current vids in front of me. But always great when I make an effort to stay current. Pretty soon, Peeps will pay you to engineer for them. As to catch a bit of that "sound" your developing in that space. Keep em coming.
hey man! good to hear from you it's been a minute. yeah that's weird how that algorithm works. man that'll be the day that would be cool haha! i'm happy you made the effort to keep in touch thank you!
That was a perfectly cool instrumental low fi hip hop laid back tune. I'm sure the requesters were plenty happy.
thanks nebula i think one of them didnt even notice i gave them a shoutout haha
@@travisraab Definitely you should keep a high ratio of tuneage to pedagogical info. As the french say "pour faire plus d'un heureux, offrez plus d'un fromage."
@@nebula0697 awesome let me just get out my dictionary, thesaurus, and Barron's 501 French Verbs!
I have a Tascam 388 currently not working, this is def convincing me to get it fixed. Sounds great!
what's wrong with it?
@@travisraab the reel to reel side isn’t working (stop, rev, play ect) the mixer does work however, been using it for channel strips, and it sounds pretty good considering.
@@Gregorydavidmusic does the counter light up or does it do anything at all? Have you checked the belt? Could be a simple fix
@@travisraab I haven’t taken it apart yet, but you’re prob right lol.. I’ll do that and get back 🤘😂
just opened my 388 up, sure enough the belt was goo.. cleaned it all out, and recalibrating the tension now.. thanks for the inspiration on DIY’ing it, channel strips sound excellent🤘
Great insight! The guitar licks r always so tasty 😋🤤🎉✨
I hope it was useful thanks Elijah
I use a 4 track reel to reel and building a song with many parts is wild. Record three tracks, mix down to one, record two more tracks, mix down to one, repeat. So you need to guess at what level the first guitar part you recorded will need to be at several mix downs later when it can't be undone. Very jealous of that 8 track you've got.
yeah I can't handle 4 tracks. can't believe what the beatles achieved with only 4 tracks.
@@travisraab I believe they had a few 4 track machines synced up with some sort of magic
Sounds great. I need to hear that Casio synth on tape...
hi Marcos! it has like one good sound. I used it on another tune ua-cam.com/video/FmtfRXWZTjw/v-deo.html
I'll try to make another song that works for it!
Pretty sweet. Definitely appreciate this.
Glad you liked it, Kyle! 😊
I'm a working musician and watching your process on this song is very inspiring. Thanks for the nice video. :)
just checked out your channel. great playing john! thanks for swinging by
@@travisraab wow thanks!
That snare tone is lovely
Thanks Hunter 🙏👍👍
Wow, yes, sooooo different, but it has its reward, i like the track!!
Thanks Juan!
“I didn’t follow the assignment” … Turned out that’s a good thing.
i cant believe the sound of that epi sg, mate!
love your content!
Greetings from Chile!
(did i sound like an e.t. alien when i say: "greetings"? ...i can feel it)
it was free can't go wrong with the price haha. your english is perfect marcos!
@@travisraab 💪🏻
Love the Vibe of the Song!
thank you Annie!
honestly, love the jam. There are no wrong notes...
jakob very kind of you to say!
I just got a digital recorder/mixer after recording analog for 25+ years. Still keeping it DAWless. Having a bit of trouble getting some things to sound right with digital. 😢
Sounds like a King Krule track that didn’t make it on the album 😁 Your videos are always great, keep em coming.
hey millennial! i thought you meant krungbin (or however you spell it) for a second. i've heard of king krule I should check them out!
@@travisraab He’s great, definitely check it out!
@@travisraab ua-cam.com/video/4tbXisC4Gw0/v-deo.html check this out mate.
what genre is that? all i can think is that i used to have that exact same 335. i sold it to a student of mine... sad
@@travisraab I have no idea, but…I think people in their 20s consumed music in such a way, on such a vast scale of genres that when we make music it’s hard to say what it is, if that makes sense? As for the guitar, I’d love one of them, I don’t think I could ever bring myself to sell a guitar hahah
I read a quote from Bob Ohlsson of Motown recently that he did several different mixdowns and was reall intuitive with the automation, doing things on the fly he couldnt recreate and then cut and spliced the best parts of the mixes together. He said he still does this straight into protools. He said Motown had the first automation desk, but they actually had it removed from the desk once in a service, because they preferred the method above.
Now he just records his mixes as playlists stright into protools and then comps the best bits together and says its still quicker than adding automation after the fact.
Anyways, thought you might find this information useful!
Very cool Jack!
The barn studio looks so warm and welcoming (especially with this music) . Are you planning on continuing the barn studio series? I binged them in one sitting and now something's missing from my life.
man I think I'm gonna do a poll! i wasn't sure who was watching it but a few people have asked about it.
@@travisraab I'm for more barn studio videos too. I love those!
@@alexanderdragiev2050 ok we got two! 😂
I am actually kind of doing something like what you are doing where I am collecting older/salvaged material to make music with. Slow process but it is fun and enjoyable. One of these days I will update my channel to have these things. I am taking a weirder approach as I like to add amience and noise in my stuff (also makes better use of my lack of expertise, just a fun hobby). It is inspiring to see you do something like this and makes me want to do the same with my tape recorder (I got a tascam 414 for like $22 and all it needed was a new capacitor, it was one of my fav purchases). Keep it up, Trav :)
Hi Hill! Congrats on your 424 score. Sounds like you have a great project. Keep me posted on it!
@@travisraab I am sorry I meant to say 414, my brain is foggy this morning lol, but it works wonders for me and what I want to do. Will keep posted mainly by video uploading. We will see when lol
Great! I just enjoy your music and videos. I want to make a place similar to your studio someday.👍
Did I pronounce your name right?
Lost all my gear in home studio in Kharkiv, Ukraine. But stil watch your great videos just to not lose my mind. Thank you!
Thats very kind of you to say. I'm very sorry for your situation.
@@travisraab Thank you!
@@maximtrianov3661 where are you now? What is the situation
@@travisraab the situation is horrible! Me and my wife escape from Kharkiv , it was a nightmare - russians bombs our city intensively! They destroyed our beautiful city, our home! Their soldiers are losers! All they can do - to kill peaceful people like in Bucha or Irpin... But we stand strong! Sorry to write this words, your channel is not about war or politic...
awesome set up!
thanks nick!
Great content per usual
Thank you Sean!
Awesome vid! Definitely excited to see that Casio though. Those are so fun to make beats with. It’d be interesting to combine a stock Casio beat with live drums. And then maybe little keys too!
i'll have to bust out the casio! i used it on another tune. it's been a minute. good idea conor
Sounds like a cool jazzy funk song. Surprised how the floor tom/kick sits in the mix.
oh cool thanks jeff!
Man.. you are really tired. Perception of reality @ 3:27AM.. health coachers would use this video as a warning example for lack of sleep! I almost fell a sleep watching you been tired; and it's morning here right now, well 10:30AM. Contagious!
But I'm impressed of the energy you put into it all! It sounds.. work in progress?
It's interesting to hear your own thoughts about the mixing part and how easy it is to get lost in details. Thanks for another great video! I enjoy them very much!
Thanks mute!
i Love a good video that is both informative and entertaining
i'm glad you liked it!
Maybe get a reverb and delay for your aux returns, and a compressor for your mix bus after tape to polish the mix. I think you would be in good shape then. Lexicon MX200 series is cheap and really good.
I'll check it out Matt!
kick drum is adorable
tru dat
Sounds good to me even though the epiphone is out of tune. Love the stereo guitars
jules this is an official gibson les paul no epiphone here
@Wilmer Waarbroek no way man
Can i show guys my álbum "culumim", this project is exectly what u did listed: 90's drums, guitars, cheep Casio...
Love the Track and your Channel :) but please play that casio in the 388 :p no just joking if you to that the noiselevel will be higher than me on a Amsterdam bar Tour
I gotta make a track built around the Casio. It has a very specific sound
Woa.. Sounds really good..
thanks Frank!
U killed it.....thanx
thanks michael!
This is the sound we all missing
Being positive makes everything work 🙂
i hope i'm not coming off too negative! i'm just basically joking around
All nostalgia aside. I think working with analog will make you a better producer. Mic placement, eq of amp beforehand. Analog is also kind of unforgiving. Not to mention there's a certain amount of surprise when you hear it back on tape, like wow tape made that nasty tone sound sweet, or whoa where's all the air. I just did my first bounce on 246, and I was like wow came out 10 times louder than expected had to redo it. But the amount of fun and enthusiasm of working with tape, a song that ain't even that cool, the simplest riff ever, sometimes on tape your like yeah I wanna work with that. Tape has made me appreciate digital, but digital has made me long for sweet syrupy tape
sweet syrupy tape you said it Benny! good insights on producing.
Can we get a video where you use the 388 as a guitar tape echo effect?
If it doesn't have direct outs you could use the insert as one, then capture the echo after it hits the tape. I think that would be a cool upload.
you'll have to explain to me how to do that rook!
@@travisraab so you take the original signal from the "access" send on that machine (looks like thats what your insert is called) and record that into your daw, or one of your portable studios. So that's your signal with no latency. Then that signal should still be going to tape on the Tascam 388. The time it takes to go from the record head to the play head creates a delay. The slower tape speed ips you use the longer the delay. Then you capture the stereo out after tape. Send that to your Daw or portastudio. Blend the tape signal to taste. Works with vocals to. That's how they got the John Lennon double tracks.
@@Ryan_Poff you mean i record a delayed track back onto another track?
@@travisraab I think that would cause a nasty feedback. No you would have to record onto another tape machine or into your daw. I have an idea. How about use your new portastudio. Capture your guitar the way you normally would either going direct in, or amping it up on the portastudio. Then, use the aux on the Portastudio sending to the tascam. Then send the out of the tascam after it hits the tape back into your portastudio through the aux return. Then you can use the aux fader knob on the portastudio to control the delay. Or you could bring it back in on a whole other channel that way you can use eq, and pan it, etc. So in a sense your just using the tascam as a big a** guitar pedal, or piece of outboard gear.
@@travisraab then you can adjust the time of the delay by changing the tape speed on the tascam.
The bit about playing the “wrong note” after thinking it sounded good is the story of my life when writing songs. I’ll be like “it’s okay if it sounds weird bc I think it sounds good” and when I listen to it later it only sounds weird… and not good
lol
Super great!!!!
Hey Tim good to hear from you, thanks!
That song sounded PRETTY, PRETTY, PRETTY, PRETTY.. pretty good.
Hahaha 😂
i could hear frank ocean on this, this is so smooth man
we gotta get him! anybody got his number?
Your chords sound amazing! Any tips on how to come up with interesting chord progressions?
thanks Paulius! most of these are stock jazz chords. I would learn 2 5 1 in both major and minor using 7th chords. That'll get you 75% of the way there!
@@travisraab great advise
I think the song sounds cool
Ooh, this feels like a soul-type Jimi Hendrix track. I'd really like to remix it myself!
yeah that would be fun arfan!
@@travisraab "remix" as in "mixing the song", not like adding beats
@@arfansthename that's also cool!
I actually kinda like that drum sound with the guitars. It's strange and unconventional but in a cool way
Hey thanks szandokan!
Fuck the subtitles, enjoy the video, its perfect
I like the fat analog sound. I run my tracks thru analog mixers , eq and tape. I then saturate , mix and edit using a DAW and a digital mixer with automated faders. . I can move faster in the digital domain with total recall of projects. I use analog first though ...
Wow cool workflow! Best of both worlds. Faders are dope
Idk man. It had a vibe, and it felt good. What else do you really need? Cool video!
thank you Rook!
Actually sound like a hit
You too kind F C!
Analog lives on
Stayin' alive Micah!
you fail beautifully, inspired! 🙌
I appreciate that Taco!
Yoo mann!! I have a question for you..
I've always thought about ... How long can you use and reuse tape?
I mean.. Do you have to change tape every time you make a mistake or can you delete the recorded sound?
Make a video about it!
so you can reuse tape as much as you want, but some sounds kind of get imprinted and they can be faintly heard. no you don't have to change tape with every mistake.
Tune the snare a bit tighter esp bottom head and dampen, it will fit the song better. Otherwise - dig the vibe.
great suggestion lincoln!
Its hip-hopy
I could see Kendrick Lamar, or J Cole even on this beat
Eq on the way in and then again on the mix side
is that a request or a statement lol
@@travisraab both.....thats what the old heads used to do....you just have to commit....which is the down side to analog
@@marcosaruca5283 i hear you!
@@travisraab does the tascam 388 have a mix and record mode?
@@marcosaruca5283 hmmm that sounds pretty advanced. What does that do?
How did you clean up all that old dusty recording gear? Any products you recommend? just bought a fostex cassette recorder and it works, but super dirty
Yeah man! Depends want you want to do. The less tracks the less the price basically. Which model of fostex?
@@travisraab Fostex Xr7 multitracker. Definitely wanna clean up the faders. Don't really know anything about servicing this kind of stuff though
I'm supposed to adjust my tensor arms on my 388 and I've never done it before have you?
Yes I have a video about it
@@travisraab ok let me see that.
@@amonster8mymother ua-cam.com/video/fz9AwJC0YDc/v-deo.html
dude drum groove is very hiphop, the dreamy guitars have a tyler the creator vibe to em
Hey thanks Chris 😁
maybe next time you should make song with viewers, for the example you make one path of instrument and the rest of it subscribers, or just give us your recorded sound path and see some remix and remasters, it coudl be intresting
whoa ! i really like that idea bcwalet. not just saying that. great suggestion
Your instruments all sound big. Your chords and ideas are big. I mean it.
I think your snare could be shorter to give space for them.
you're too kind! i agree, the snare messed up the song
☺☺☺
Maybe use both heads on the kick and make sure you move the mic away from the batter head a bit? sounds too attacky as oppose to an actual kick drum tone
that's a good idea Jake! I'll try that
@@travisraab you could also try use a softer beater? Depends on what sound you actually want i guess!
@@jimtrake does a softer beater exist?
how about something purely digital, uptempo and aggressive
sounds cool! what genre?
Did you try using a cat as damping for your kick?
yeah can you hear the tone? the plugin doesn't sound the same as the real cat. just saying. they can try but...
What if you went the other way and tried to make it as digital as possible 🤔
thank you! i actually want to do that. it's INSANE that we keep trying to make something that isn't just like this kick drum. why am i trying to make it something that it isnt? why not embrace what I have. i was seriously planning on making a video like that. good thinking Daniel!
@@travisraab it really is insane. Digital is the answer to all the issues with analogue. If you do the digital video you could even got to extremes and record everything in 8 bit...maybe that's too far though 😅
do you use any middlemen? like analog compression or eq?
well these things get a lot of compression the way i used them. the drums and bass get squashed when i hit the tape hard. the overdrive pedal compressed the bass, and the same pedal into the tube amp compresses before it even reaches tape. and then just tape in general compresses. and then when i master it gets compressed and limited. yes the guitar amp and the overdrive pedal both have eq that i used. and there's eq on the board.
Great Mix ! Definitely sounding warm and analogue. Just one suggestion... don't hard pan everything otherwise it sounds hollow.
good thinking ankur! thanks for your suggestion
Oh snap, remixing a tune three times is such drudgery! I can’t think of a single track that didn’t get mixed a dozen times before it was done in my world.
true dat, scott!
man what's up with your the face , every time you pickup an instrument hhhh. i found a tascam 106 for sale do you think worth investing . thanks for the videos man
i got a bad case of bass face yassin. i never messed with a 106. but i guess if you can rank mount it, it might be efficient and might generate some white noise for you
Hybrid recording is the way to go if u can afford it
They you go boss!
love the vid- take a subscribe
Hey thanks Rob!
Hi , I see now the rulls of last time prize and I hope you reach 5000 before 5 Aplil
ok thanks sinapsya!
headsup this channel is going to the moon
p.s. please stop putting yourself down after doing things with good technique like eqing the kick, you either look like you're insecure and don't know anything or you look like a narcissist who really thinks they are great at everything and makes up for it with self deprecation (narcissists DO this)... that goes for every artist here.
is it possible to be both? you are def right with your diagnosis lol.
regarding the channel, thank you! that would be awesome. these vids are my hobby :)
@@travisraab Just putting some thoughts out there. I am a recovering self-doubter.
I just think if you are putting a video together with all your experience and craftsmanship, give the audience faith that you are excited about what you are doing.
Your videos are awesome so maybe using a different tone in your edits that doesn't put you down would probably give your channel the kind of confidence that takes it the extra mile. At least that's what I'd like to see 🙂
love it moe
I thought it was pretty good.
you're too kind, andrew!
I seriously want you out of your comfort zone. Sing, put some overdrive onto shit, make that casio sound weird. The world doesn't need another chill Neo Soul Hip-Hop vibes track.
We don't!!
i feel very uncomfortable already lol
99 % cool but guitar on both side too loud in my speakers