VCC, VTM, Blah, Blah, Blah...What The Hell Is Wrong With Me?

[melomood]

In the old days the noise floor would direct you to maximize your signal everywhere to keep a high signal to noise ratio but there really isn't much noise now

Make your own noise floor and work it

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

And no, my DAW recordings do not sound like my recordings from back in the 70s and 80s when I was recording on a Teac A3440 and a Tascam mixer.

I've got a Teac A3440 sitting here in my room (a friend gave it to me recently) and I haven't even turned it on once! I keep meaning to experiment with it but when I'm working on music, priority #1 is usually efficiency due to my limited time. I plan on getting some RCA's and seeing how it sounds when I bypass the mic preamps and mixer and use external pre's, but who knows when I'll have the time.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

In the old days the noise floor would direct you to maximize your signal everywhere to keep a high signal to noise ratio but there really isn't much noise now

Make your own noise floor and work it

Or buy some Slate plugins!

[wagtunes]

And no, my DAW recordings do not sound like my recordings from back in the 70s and 80s when I was recording on a Teac A3440 and a Tascam mixer.

I've got a Teac A3440 sitting here in my room (a friend gave it to me recently) and I haven't even turned it on once! I keep meaning to experiment with it but when I'm working on music, priority #1 is usually efficiency due to my limited time. I plan on getting some RCA's and seeing how it sounds when I bypass the mic preamps and mixer and use external pre's, but who knows when I'll have the time.

I can't tell you how many times I had to get that thing repaired. The recording heads kept going consistently every few years as much as I used it. Finally, I just donated it to my church rummage sale.

[DuX]

And no, my DAW recordings do not sound like my recordings from back in the 70s and 80s when I was recording on a Teac A3440 and a Tascam mixer.

I've got a Teac A3440 sitting here in my room (a friend gave it to me recently) and I haven't even turned it on once! I keep meaning to experiment with it but when I'm working on music, priority #1 is usually efficiency due to my limited time. I plan on getting some RCA's and seeing how it sounds when I bypass the mic preamps and mixer and use external pre's, but who knows when I'll have the time.

I can't tell you how many times I had to get that thing repaired. The recording heads kept going consistently every few years as much as I used it. Finally, I just donated it to my church rummage sale.

I'd buy this thing just for the beautiful VU-meters and possibly interesting sounding preamps.

edit: mamma mia, have you checked the prices of this thing on e-bay wagtunes?! That's the reason why I don't have one and use Akai GX75 I got for 150 euro instead.

[plexuss]

Here's a couple interesting tracks for you. These were recorded by me in the 90s. I used Notator at the time. I would compose the whole song using Notator. Hit "play" and all my hardware synths would play back, into a mixer with outboard effects all mixed down to stereo and recorded at 15ips on a 3440S using dBX noise reduction. I would run L into 1/3 and R 2/4. I'd manually do the mix as the audio recorded often doing multiple takes until I got it right. You can hear various tape artifacts in these including some drop-outs. Fun with tape. These were eventually transcribed to DAT when I got a DAT machine.

https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/featherless-flight

https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/high-tide

[wagtunes]

Here's a couple interesting tracks for you. These were recorded by me in the 90s. I used Notator at the time. I would compose the whole song using Notator. Hit "play" and all my hardware synths would play back, into a mixer with outboard effects all mixed down to stereo and recorded at 15ips on a 3440S using dBX noise reduction. I would run L into 1/3 and R 2/4. I'd manually do the mix as the audio recorded often doing multiple takes until I got it right. You can hear various tape artifacts in these including some drop-outs. Fun with tape. These were eventually transcribed to DAT when I got a DAT machine.

https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/featherless-flight

https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/high-tide

Good stuff. I didn't hear any artifacts or dropouts but no question that's tape. It's so obvious on the bass especially on that 2nd track.

[melomood]

In the old days the noise floor would direct you to maximize your signal everywhere to keep a high signal to noise ratio but there really isn't much noise now

Make your own noise floor and work it

Or buy some Slate plugins!

If I was going to buy a plugin that emulates sedimentary rock it would be sandstone