I mean, what actual rock music is there now? Only seems to be all the "djent" bullshyit and meandering noodling as many notes as you possibly can to show off on social media.
Well get off of fucking tiktok guitarists and find all the amazing music thats out there. We are in the golden age for music. You can literally find some fucking Italian band with 14 monthly listeners that makes the exact music you want to listen to
I know, right? Some people now say that eating these new billionaire's lab-processed insect proteins is the new cool way forward, others say it's better to eat food that's properly prepared and cooked as a traditional meal 🙄pff, they're just trying to seem cool and don't know what they're talking about. I just eat raw flesh full of dodgy bacteria and flies, like a lion, it's the real meal deal! I know what I'm talking about.
It’s so smooth and sweet when the guitar gets in: it throws me on a cloud where I can look at the world with the most peaceful pair of eyes you can imagine...
Ouch. "Get yourself a tape machine and get your head out of ableton!" God that pitch control really gave it that "DeMarco" sound! This guy is so fucking great.
that's really stupid advice. nobody has thousands of dollars to spend on good analog gear and recording on a 4-track sounds like shit. this guy is an elitist moron.
i wouldn't say he's a moron. more of someone who's done something in a way that works for him based upon the opportunities he's presented himself with.
he's definitely being elitist by favoring an old recording technology, such as analog recording, that just happens to be extremely expensive and, thus, inaccessible to most people and putting down those who favor a cheaper alternative, such as digital recording, which can produce equally as good results.
this is maybe the third time I've watched this I can't believe it never occurred to me that this Mac DeMarco doing his impression of Jay from the Kevin Smith movies.
His albums have great production and I feel like tape machines are really hard to work with and are expensive, especially for a 10 inch like has, and getting them serviced is also costly. I'm also pretty sure, considering this is only a two track tape machine (or two channel four track), that he actually records everything into ableton (probably through an interface or preamp), mixes there, and then bounces the recording down to tape for the saturation and the pitch shifting that happens when he adjusts the playback speed knob. I really don't think it's a simple as "buying a tape machine". Tape is a pain to work with, to get a good recording your machine heads have to be cleaned very regularly, your machine has to be calibrated for the type of tape you're using, well biased, and tape is expensive. There are a lot of other factors at play as well. I'm not sure if mac keeps up with his tape machine(s) regularly, but his recordings sound very good regardless of his process. If he records directly to tape I'd love to know how he gets everything so clean sounding. Tape hiss can be a bitch. I know I saw him bouncing a track down onto a big cassette recorder on youtube when he was recording "another one". I could be completely wrong about the amount of tracks on the tape machine.
No, he actually tracks all of his shit to tape with no digital other than synth or the occasional outboard hardware digital reverb/compressor. Mac had an interview with tape op and went into detail, he only uses the computer for a 2 track mix down. He did record one EP entirely digital just to fuck off, forgot the name. Sounds the same but like a cheap digital recording imo. Anyway, that's a Fostex 8 track he's using there with what looks like a newish Mackie mixer. He recorded salad days on a tascam 388 1/4" 8 track running at 7 1/5 inches per second. same machine Women, Ty Segall, Sic Alps, Parquet Courts, Fresh & Onlys, etc. use. I like the sound of 1/4" more than the Fostex he's using here which is a half inch 8 track running at 15ips. Slightly better quality. I've owned an Otari MX5050 half inch 8 track and recorded everything to 15ips, and it was a cool sound. However, now I use an old Teac 3340s 1/4" 4 track that has optional 7 1/5ips or 15ips and bounce to a Revox A77.
Also, you're not going to get the sound of tape by the particular technique you described. Youl get tape artifacts but not the "sound" people think of as tape. The actual process of a microphone transducing sound waves into an electric current that is then captured on tape as a result of electromagnetism is fundamentally at odds with a sound wave being captured and transduced into a digital binary signal.
so weird Is it wrong I almost orgasmed as I read over all the details of working with tape? Sorry, I really want to become an audio engineer, planning on studying it in college.
@ 1:33 he says “and that’s how you make _____” what is he actually saying? I thought he said that’s how you make deadrock but I searched it up with no results. Does anyone know what he said?
where are all those separate tracks recorded on? on that same mixer? If they're in tape how does he separate them in so many different tracks, i thought tape was only stereo once it's recorded. Is this an eight channel tape recorder? and anyways how does he mix the recordings like he plays them back, mix them, and then send that mix to another stereo tape recorder for the final mix? I need to clarify all this wizardry, I only have a 4channel tascam... and ableton live ofc
he is using a multitrack machine yeah, probably an 8 track. Can get a 8 track fostex for pretty good prices sometimes. At the start if you look closely you can see all the vu meters on his machine for each channel. Theres a cool old MTV video of squarepusher doing the same thing back in the 90s on youtube. There's also quite a few 4 track TEAC ones out there. so can record each instrument through the mixer direct outs into the tape machine and then each channel is on its own channel strip on the mixer after being recorded to do the mixdown. def wanna do this myself one day
It'd go to the tape machine via a pre-amp, tape machines generally don't receive mic-level signals. Also that seems to only be a 2-track machine so its likely he's recording to his computer then bouncing it out to tape for the sound afterwards
Does he just record onto the mixer and put it on two track just for the sound? I've heard about people doing that and it seems like that's what's happening here.
Michel Maio he probably recorded to the mixer via the inputs in the back and then ran it through the reel to reel which has 3 heads. I do the same but instead I use a 3 head tape deck
@@bruhman4085 the track IS being played off the tape. Mac recorded each instrument individually through the mixer direct outs/outboard mic pre's into the tape machine and then routed each track to a channel strip on the mixer to get a stereo mixdown. You can see he's just muting and unmuting the tracks playing off the tape. After he got the mix right he probably recorded that onto a 2 track master tape to send to a mastering engineer and then dumped that into ableton via usb.
