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I'll be mastering for my client and he'll have it printed on tapes so this video was phenomenal for me. Thank you very much for high quality material. Simple yet informative!
I don't think there is anyone who can explain better than you what bias, hysteresis and saturation are. Very informative video. Thank you for sharing these info with us. A big like and greetings from Romania.
Hey guys great video as usual... I'm thinking about purchasing a reel to reel to warm up my final mix in my daw. But I have actually still have a working and functioning cassette deck, Dat machine and ADAT machine. Do you think it's worth it? Or would I get the same results from one of my other formats? Thanks,
Hi, do you think it’s possible to use type IV cassette with a high quality cassette recorder and then back the signal from the cassette recorder into the computer going through a high quality soundcard (with a good ad-da converter in) to add and interesting feel and texture to the sound ? In that case should i do the mastering before ? If yes will the signal go over 0 db after going back to the computer, should i put a limiter ? Thanks in advance hope you will see my comment, the process is maybe not 100% clear in my head because i don’t have all the gear yet... musically greeting
Hola, excelente video te felicito. Quiero preguntarte qué tipo de archivo y cuáles características serían las adecuadas para hacer copias directamente de la fuente digital. Hablo de cuántos Bits es mejor para grabar. Saludos desde Uruguay, espero haber sido claro. Feliz año nuevo.
Hey Fabián Da Silva! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! A 24-bit, 96kHz digital file would be ideal for making copies. Happy new year! ¡Hola Fabián Da Silva! ¡Gracias por mirar y dejar un comentario! Un archivo digital de 24 bits y 96 kHz sería ideal para realizar copias. ¡Feliz año nuevo! SageAudio.com
Hi thanks a ton for the video I found this very helpful , personally I am considering mastering my mixes to cassette to get a bit of analog warmth saturation and then bounce ing it back to the digital realm a reel to reel is too expensive for me at the moment and I already have a pretty good cassette deck (Nakamichi 500) do you think this could be a less expensive option ? Maybe using quality cassettes I’m pretty shure it could work out would you have any reccomendations or tips or have you ever done anything like this ? Thanks in advance regards from Palermo 😎
That's a cool idea! With something like that, you'll have to experiment to get the sound you want. My only recommendation is to adhere to the EQ response of the tape you're using and record to tape with a level that's right before you hear distortion (during the tape's playback). Cassettes will have a lower sound quality than reel-to-reel due to the width of the tape, but, it's still worth trying if you're alright with losing a little fidelity (but like I said, some experimentation could result in a cool sound).
Nice video, I noticed that you don't have "tape" as one of the selections under mastering on your website. If someone wanted to have their music mastered for cassette what should they choose and where could they find the price info?
Hey Keith! Glad your enjoyed the video and thanks for leaving a comment. If you reach out to Steve (our head engineer) and let him know that you intend to have the master distributed on cassette, he can tailor the master towards that. Just let him know which tape type you'll distribute on so that the EQ can be adjusted accordingly. Here's a link to contact him: www.sageaudio.com/contact.php
I'm thinking about buying a rack mountable Marantz PMD 300CP dual cassette deck to record to. Does that sound like a workable plan? I'm thinking of recording everything on my Mixer, sending it tape and from tape to final mastering in DAW.
Thanks for watching Dean! If you can get your hands on one, recording to a tape machine would sound better than recording to a cassette deck. Typically cassette decks are better for creating a consumer version of the recording. Thanks for watching! SageAudio.com
@@sageaudio Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. It looks like you can get a decent Reel to Reel for under $400 if you look around. I'll experiment with cassettes first. I think that may work well for me because I'm already getting a really warm sound working with a decent ribbon mic, external pre amp/eq and compressor before hitting the DAW. Either way for the sound I like recording strictly in the box totally doesn't work. Thanks again!
Say you were to create a duplicate of a master tape (assuming correct types), if you were to create another duplicate based off of the last duplicate rather than the master tape and then do that a number of times, would all of those tapes presumably have the same quality, or would it degrade over time, but less so than duplicating the master repeatedly?
Thanks for watching! In this case there would be less degradation, but you'd still have some over time. I'd recommend using the digital master as the source for each new copy, instead of copying from tape to tape. This way you avoid degradation entirely and get identical copies on each tape. SageAudio.com
Hey Paul! Thanks for your comment. Mastering should be done before putting the signal onto tape - similar to how mastering is done before releasing a song digitally, or on other mediums like vinyl, etc. SageAudio.com
Hey Anamnesis AudioStudio! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. -0.1dBTP is a good output for your master if you plan to put it on tape. Since the file won't be converted to a lossy file (like with online encoding) you don't need to worry about significant changes to the amplitude of your master. Also, -14 LUFS will work well, but I might go a little louder like -12 or -10 to help cover up some tape noise. SageAudio.com
hi cassette are a right pain at 1 7/8 ips the EQ is a pain i use 3 3/4 ips that tascam dig cassette deck heads are very poor putting in the logic to do the mastering some don't like this AAA is very hard on cassette i have a otari mtr 12 with 1/8 cassette heads save all this computer work some one i know had some from a slave reel to reel deck that was used to record the pancakes for cassettes out tec i am in to
Hey Bob! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Using lower tape speeds, especially with cassette doesn't sound easy. Thanks for sharing your setup! SageAudio.com
