Tascam 424 and Chase Bliss Mood MKII // Tape Experiment #6 

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also thank mk.gee

Glad you liked it!

It's a great tool for creating ambient texture. Older tape machines can be a bit temperamental but the result is always worth it.

Thanks Jan!

They are certainly a lot of fun to experiment with.

Lower octaves are overrated 😀

Sorry, not yet. I am working on something but that is far from done. I did consider publishing a collection of my tape jams on Bandcamp but the quality of the recordings is a bit inconsistent. Probably cheaper to just revisit it here one RU-vid Anyway, the fact that you are even considering purchasing my work is a massive complement to me. Thanks!

@@django-music oh I would in a second! Look into distrokid. If things aren’t consistent you can release them as singles which is actually the way to go these days. That’s what I think I’ll start doing (instead of albums) myself. Everything will be put on your channel and every major online music streamer and retailer. It’s only $20 a year.

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If you want to learn how to create a tape loop, there are many tutorials out there. I think I used this one for my first loop: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ewf3QSbDFD4.htmlsi=1Z7RUj8FdWZsSkk2 Concerning the recording proces itself it's a mostly experimentation and see what works. In this case I recorded intervals to the first three tracks, and an arpeggiating loop to the fourth track. There has to be some sort of harmonic relation between the intervals to make it work. I usually record one octave up at high speed and play back at normal speed to get back to the intended pitch with additional artifacts. The last step is adding some effects to glue it all together. I hope this helps.

Welcome aboard!

Much appreciated!

Much appreciated. Thank you for listening.

Thanks!

I use new old stock Maxwell UR-60 and UR-90 tapes since BlankFor.ms recommended them. Not sure about the type, I think they are type I tapes. Hope this helps and thanks for watching.

@@django-music Damn that's amazing to know. Especially on account of how Hi Bias tapes are becoming so hard to find and even when you do find them, the prices are getting harder and harder to justify.

I don’t think that high bias is required for tape loops since it’s usually the degradation of the audio that makes the sound so pleasing. I do think that higher quality tapes can help when using a four track tape-deck in a more conventional way, although recording at high speed already gets you pretty far.