The sound of tape bleeding!!!!

[the19thbear]

So here is a tape project i did.
15 tracks recorded on an otari 24 track 2 inch machine.
I wanted it to sound as old school as possible so i punished the meters on that tape machine to be constantly in the red zone

The mix is done 100% analog - Ssl desk, pultec eqs, 1176/DBX 160 comps etc etc.
I cut ALOT of bottom to make it sound old and ready to go to vinyl (i wish!! )

The band is a danish band called "Cala". We did all the tracking except vocals and snaredrum dubs at the same time in one big room. 3 mics on the drums. One mic on organ (fender twin reverb amp), one mic on bass (huge ampeg amp) - along with linedriver.
Ribbon mic on the saxophone.
The reverb is the sound of the vocal signal reamped through the twin reverb and recorded with an A/B stereo mic setup-- lots of fun
They used no monitoring - just all in the same room with some gobos in between the drumset and the rest of the band.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3270067/Cala%20 ... %20not.wav

It was great fun!
Enjoy!

[dawman]

That's sick....
I still have my MTR-90 it sounds great and it's almost 30 years old.
We use to get the levels clipping on the channels then bring them back a little.
Cranking up the Gain on Urei 537 would really get hot.
The music is really fresh too.
Too bad the mp3 conversion kills the tape sound.

[petal]

It's not mp3...

[the19thbear]

Its supposed to sound like crap. Its a 60s project. That means alot og distortion and gritty sounds

[David]

Cracking stuff.. I absolutely love it. Many thanks

[katano]

nice one, I'm not really into this kind of music that much, but I like the production and it's sound, very well done (what I can say after listening with some cheapo desktop speakers)