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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
What exactly are degradation tricks......don't believe I've ever heard the term before?
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Sometimes, when I have like a really snazzy synth sound, like too snazzy sounding for a lofi track, I record to tape, with a bit of reverb. Then play the recorded synth line (or whatever) through the mixer, with perhaps a bit more reverb
, and record again to tape. And again to tape. So its like the 3rd or 4th generation recording. I dunno it gets pretty smeeary/tape saturation/very degraded sound. I'm just using the format to degrade the audio. I always like to say, "Want a new effect? Invent a new format." Not sure how much that pertains to this mixtape, but I'll prob still do something special... not sure yet.. I do love the tape format, and the effects it produces, and if anyone thinks they are out of fashion then they haven't been paying much attention!
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Originally Posted by gmku
I don't know if you'd call it a trick or not but my tapes often have one song after another, in a row, on both sides of the tape.
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yeah thats a good trick! except it doesnt work on my 4-trk/reel tape. Pretty weird hearing Thurston play boths sides of a tape at once tho! Blasphemy!
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Originally Posted by EVOLghost
I have a blank tape just sitting there, waiting. Except i have no tape deck to record with...
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You could send a tracklist or upload the mix and have someone dub it to tape??