Tape Heads, Healthy Mixing, Book Recommendations | Patron Q+A
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2024
- Can you hear a difference between the 2mm and 2.75 mm tape heads on a Nagra 4-S? What are healthy practices when learning how to mix? How do you get inspiration when you feel none? These and other questions are addressed in my irregular Patron Q+A.
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I find the act of simply exploring the question of "What if I patched X to Y?" very rewarding on its own. Whether or not it results in something I or anyone else would enjoy listening to again is beside the point. Experimenting with soundscapes and drones, just fiddling with texture, stuck right into a flow state as meditation to calm the mind.
18:38 Yes! A Nagra Special video!
The tape loop question is easy. Replace the tape with many exciting multi-coloured string loops. The strings turn optical encoders on lots of spools on the machine giving time pulses, everything else, the loops the theatrics remains. The time pulses will have all the rich flavour of the motor speed noise and wobbly loop effects. If the (digital) sample being played by the pulses is longer or shorter than the associated string loop then there would be additional resonances.
Thank you Hainbach for sharing your wisdom and experience.
going going gong
It was really validating to hear you talk about nighttime being hard to make music. I work full time and then try to make music, and sometimes find it hard. No wonder! Has me thinking about ways to try and switch things up a bit and just be a little more kind to myself about my expectations. As you put it a lot of things happen to you during the day. Especially as parents.
I used to do music "on the weekend, when I have like 20 continuous hours to make stuff". But now I find that I need some sleep on Saturdays to get energy back after an exhausting week. And then I make music for a few hours, get some groundwork done ... and when I return to it a couple of days later, I feel different and don't like the groundwork any longer.
So to me the main problem is not "when to make music and finding time for it", but "finding a workflow where I can get into the right mood again". 😓
@g3cd sympathy for the issue. Perhaps some kind of phone app like koala sampler, where you could do bite sized bits of music throughout the day would help? Like on lunch or coffee break, spending 5 minutes Finger drumming, or tweaking a filter when the inspiration hits, and you can save it, put your phone back in your pocket and come back to it later?
Even if it doesn't result in anything really finished, you got to take a little break and flex your creativity.
I'm just laying out thoughts as they come to me here. It's unsolicited suggestions at best, could be the wrong idea, and don't want to be all "here I am to solve your problem", but you raise a point that got me thinking.
All the best.
@@g3cd I'm the same way - if I'm not in the mood, I don't even try to compose. And that's the difference between people who do music for fun, and people who do it for a living. If you compose for a living, you can't compose only when you feel like it. There's something to be said for doing music as a hobby, honestly. The issue is that there isn't enough time or energy.
I love Decent Sampler, and I find the process for making libraries surprisingly satisfying. But it is a lot of work! My last couple personal instruments have like 13 layers of different baked-in effects, and processing all of that took quite a while each time 😅
I would love to see a big Nagra overview video!
Yes to Nagra video.
I always love these. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.
I love just playing with the music and the diferent effects. Using different machines or recording sounds to add to drum beats or other rhythms. I think many people are looking for "easy" ways to make music. I just think using combinations of different methods helps the overall sound. Mixing things from different sources is like putting together and aural puzzle! It is challenging, but when something clicks there is no better fealing. I dont use a DAW. Mostly because im computer illiterate. I do clean up my samples with Wavepad correct (because its free). Just the joy of making sounds work is a source of bliss. Thank you for the ideas you share!
Many thanks for the book recommendations, and for all the music and inspiration.
I always when it comes to mastering, you're just getter getting getting an engineer who's a specialist in it. Instant mastering just doesn't cut it. my band has the pleasure o being mastered by Pete Maher, who did all the U2 albums, plus every other name you can think of. It was really like night and day when we got the masters back. One of the most joyful moments in a release cycle, I find.
Hi Hainbach, it's good to be back
Your voice is so soothing
Thanks for your reply! Have a good weekend
You too Chris!
Thanks for answering my question!
Of course Ken, always happy to!
Peter Brötzmann is/was no more just a jazz player than Jaki Liebezeit is just a krautrock player. These are musically resonant people, with many things to say in many collaboration contexts. Brötzmann can make quite a racket with his horn - roars and squeals here and torrents of burbling notes there. Even when he's really out there, maybe in one of his gigs accompanying Cecil Taylor as he makes apocalypse poetry on the piano, he finds humanity (in the positive sense - which sense is not, alas, a given) in the music. Given your openness to improvisation and loud renditions of cutting-edge music, these guys would seem to suit you at least in some moods.
great q+a
Nice, I mostly read Sci-fi and fantasy for casual reading. I do occasionally read books on instrument construction, music making, electronics, engineering, etc.
Voxengo Elephant? Vintage old-school plug-in get-loud magic. I haven't thought about that one in over a decade.
0:53 Oh, well “shortcuts” or “expedite”… As an old’ish (mastering) engineer - I’d say that such words are signs o’ the time (thanks P)…😅
The lust for _efficiency_ is a *stultifying economical imperative* (oh…), between us and creativity, presence, relations and art in general. Please, don’t think/act like a CEO or MBA, unless you _actually run a company_ with typical corporate goals. That competition is just fierce, and who’s the winner, actually…?
In our relentless search of “freedom” (insert numerous caveats here…), creating - or just listening to - music, is _not_ the arena for saving time.
_Using time_ on the other hand, is a source of freedom - maybe the kind that we can find in an otherwise messy world.
Take the leap - _take your time…_ 🎶💛
[Edit: 7:22 Eh, reiterate the above…? 😂]
_(…and I thought I was going to nerd out on tape speeds, bias calibration, eq curves or coatings…. 😂)_
Spending that time doing things with sound that I enjoy immensely is me extracting maximum value from my time.
If a corporate overlord wishes to outbid me for a portion of that time, the offer had better be high enough to make shaving some away worthwhile.
Edit to add: the kitty who just curled up on my lap is the retention bonus I am currently collecting.
@@CatFish107 I literally crave a song/theme/soundscape about what you just described… Your words made my day - or week (ops, ‘time’ again…) 🔥🎶👍
It does. I have difficulty finding a beanie large enough that won't slip off of mine. Whoever invented 'One size fits all' should be brought to trial.
Re Film: you could potentially use it, film can hold optical sound, so potentially you could make loops with it, no clue how hard it is to record the optical sound onto the film though.
Thats what she said...
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The world without magnetic tape question makes makes me wonder if you have tried making sounds with optical sound? I mean, using a sound pickup from a film projector and manually etch and scratch and draw the sounds onto film. I think you can overlay them to make layering as long as the light gets through. And like regular magnetic tape, you can edit with tape and razors/scissors. And of course, loops can be made as well.
Heck, now I want to see someone build a program or app where you draw onto virtual film and it gets played back by a virtual optical sound head. Or maybe it already exists?
Book recommdation: " and the rest is noise " from 2008. by Alex Ross. READ IT!!!
Love that book!
@@Hainbach 💕
I would emphasize... you don't want to sound like everyone else, or someone else; make what you like and ignore what people say at/to you. Be true to your process or ideas, cos if you don't, you'll forever feel that you've cheated yourself. You don't become interesting by being predictable, it leads to redundancy and boredom on the part of the listener. Use accidents. If you don't know how to do that, don't make corrections just barrel onward and give the unfamiliar a chance.
Things about head is even when it is bad it’s good
I’ve watched until 10:37 now, and have had 5 commercial breaks with 2 commercials in each break. I guess something has gone wrong?
Looks like it. I checked and YT put two as breaks up to that time frame in automatically. Don’t know why you got five.
UA-cam has been making a lot of "errors" in recent months. It has nothing to do with the creatives.
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Winner winner chicken dinner ( Disclaimer: there is no chicken dinner) :-)
@@Hainbachas they say in the US of A, time to lawyer up.