Recording to tape on a Fostex 4-track!

That vocal tone is gorgeous

This feels like music more than anything. Recording to that physical media

My first multitrack recorder was a Fostex.

LOL

Dude this is BEAUTIFUL. Awesome, awesome AWESOME.

I wonder if both tabs have to be intact to enable recording. Because apparently recording on all four tracks would take up the full width of the tape.

Dude thank you so much! Why did this take me long to find?I have been researching how to get into tape recording and your set up sounds so good! 😊

“for the bass i just plugged it in direct”

the bass tone

❤🎉⚡️✨⭐️🌟🎉❤

Nothing like analog smoothness

That is really cool. Love the sound

I enjoyed watching this way to much

Howd u do more than 4 tracks tho (5) ?!

Awesome

This was the first 4-track i ever owned... makes drums and bass sound so sweet. I still have it but no longer works... bummer.

Great Job

lovely song

Can you use a condenser mic that requires phantom power

Great voice. :D

Realy realy great!!!

#2 pencils were always the best cassette rewinders...

\m/, (*o*) ,\m/

Allow me to introduce a new unit of measurement for sound volume,
which I call vovol* (abbreviated: volume voltage).

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: You use two pre-stages, one with positive volume values, and the other negative.
For example, so has the pre-step with positive values
a measurement from +0 decibels up to +20, while the one with negative values, has from -0 decibels down to -20 decibels.

The highest voltage occurs when the value is
+20 and -20 decibels (or: 20 vovol),
while there is low voltage, when the value is on
+0 and -0 decibels (or: 0 vovol).

You can possibly also combine two different values with each other, by adjusting the value to +10 -20 vovol, which gives a crisper effect. Have experimented with this myself at work and at home.
The adjustment can of course be set to taste.

More information about Vovol:

When the sound has high volume voltage, the speaker membrane is stretched like a guitar string, so that the sound becomes more sharper, realistic and noise-free.

This can be achieved by using an equalizer with a preamp. First, all frequencies are lowered, to, for example, -12 decibels.
Then you raise it up to +12 decibels, with a preamp.

This is how I usually experiment, with vovol, because currently there are no tools, or apps, to do this.

If you, or other who reading this, have an equalizer with a preamp, I think you should try it too.

And thank you all for reading!

:-)

Great video!

what kind of hi hats and snare?

Ahhhh safe g, been looking for a few days for a video just like this to see the exact process of recording vox then recording the tape into a daw

Nostalgia.
Used it a lot in the early nineties.

your like john belushis son or something

This underated as helllllllllllll

Nice Belushi !

What was your vocal chain?

Song slaps. Makes me one drive / walk down the road with cool glasses

do you send all tracks together at the same time to protools?

Smart way of recording. Fun too

wow honeslty nice song usually ppl who post gear they dont make the best stuff but i liked this

So you recorded 5 things onto 4 tracks?

Awesome video, thanks
Did you put the vocal michrophone straight into the 4-track as well?

Great song. But still didn't get how did you put drums/rhythm guitar/lead guitar/bass/vocals (5 tracks) into 4.

The sound of the Beatles is similar

Lol glad to see I’m not the only one with a big tube amp on super huge castor wheels.

Could I use a hifi stereo set with the tape deck as recording unit ( 1 track) by connecting to interface as well or is that different from this 4 track? Thank you ! Great video

Saw this and immediately downloaded all of your releases on Spotify. Loving it! Keep it up dude!

so if you bounced each part 1 at a time to digital how did you synchronize the tracks in your daw?

if your rewind doesn't work... Just flip the damn tape around and fast forward... Jeez, should think you never had one of those super cheap walkmans with everything just forward and just a plastic peg for the other side... :D

Love the song. Your singing here is so smooth and I really really like your style.

I want this track

Man the song is trippy

When you put the drumstick in the tape I thought, "dude needs to spin it" then you spin it and earned a sub👍🏽👍🏽

Great tune! Love your filmmaking style. I’m having Wes Anderson vibes!

bro i cant believe i just discovered your music. Keep grinding! This is a dope track!

Some talent there dude. Sounds like sponge bob guitar

Nice sound, especially the drums!!

yous sing really good!!!