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Tape hobbyists: What do you record?

Fred Sanford said:
My multi-track decks still get use at live shows, remote recording sessions or songwriting rehearsals, then the tunes get transferred into ProTools for mixing.
je
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I got asked to record an album for a friend, using my gear (or whatever I can beg from others), so it'll be either the Fostex E16 or Tascam 48. All analog recording, will mix to either analog or digital.

Rob-F said:
Same here. I'm thinking of getting out my old Radio Shack Beaucoup-element Log periodic FM antenna and having it mounted on the roof. I may be able to pick up KBIA in Colombia, 111 miles. It's a long shot (literally!) but you know I can remember picking up a station in Indianapolis, about 235 miles. WFMT in Chicago would be fun, at around 260 miles. Their antenna is about 1700 feet high above ground level, on what used to be the Sears Tower. So that's a head-start!

Receiving at such long distances can be done, but requires favorable conditions that usually only occur in the winter. It requires a temperature inversion, to produce a condition called atmospheric ducting. But hey, what else is there to do in February in St. Louis?

It is pathetic that a city the size of St. Louis has no classical music station at all!
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Sigh. I can't even get 88.7WSIE with any reasonable fidelity here. :sigh:
Then again, I only have a cheap ratshack dipole antenna hung on the wall.
 
Our local classical radio station, WCLV airs live broadcasts of the Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo's Fire (Baroque Ensemble) and others. That is one thing I record. When a get a CD out of the library and it is scratched up, I know it will put those errors on the copy, so I simply play it on a CD player and record it on reel to reel or cassette.
 
vinyldavid said:
I got asked to record an album for a friend, using my gear (or whatever I can beg from others), so it'll be either the Fostex E16 or Tascam 48. All analog recording, will mix to either analog or digital.
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Mix in, or mix to? Wouldn't hurt to mix to both, but the mixing in part could make for a pretty different process.

je
 
vinyldavid said:
Sigh. I can't even get 88.7WSIE with any reasonable fidelity here. :sigh:
Then again, I only have a cheap ratshack dipole antenna hung on the wall.
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Is it a folded dipole? One of those jobs made out of 300 ohm ribbon? I have not had much luck with those either. I took an old 75 ohm rabbit ears and re-mounted the rods on a wood block I can screw to the wall or ceiling. I think it works better than the 300 ohm folded dipole jobs. Of course, the antenna should be placed broadside to the station we are receiving. That can be a problem when not all of them are in the same direction!
 
I recently got into R2R mainly for recording triple and quadruple records, especially the ones that were pressed with changers in mind. For example, we picked up "The Concert for Bangladesh" a week or two ago. It's a Side 1/6, 2/5, 3/4 format. It's going on a 10.5" reel to avoid the messing around with this changer format on my manual TT.
 
The thunder passed before I could get set-up yesterday, but I got some great gentle rain on my one Dolby deck with a mixer(to EQ)and LDC. I dressed the MIC in my baseball cap and threw my shirt over it.
 
Fred Sanford said:
Mix in, or mix to? Wouldn't hurt to mix to both, but the mixing in part could make for a pretty different process.

je
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Well I'll either just roll tape for final mixdown, or roll digital as well....if I mix thru the M-50 I'll have more than enough outputs. I would almost prefer to transfer the master tape to digital after I mix down, because I am gonna be mixing and listening back to to the master tape, and spend time getting THAT correct, instead of the digital side...kinda like the mono/stereo versions of original Sinatra recordings, the stereo was secondary.

Still trying to get that Sound Workshop Logex 8 to work for tracking, as it has the best mic pres I've ever heard.
 
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I use my 2340 for some really simple 4-track songs: 1. drum machine, 2. bass, 3. rhythm guitar, 4. lead guitar.
Fortunately, there are no tracks left for vocals. :D

I also use an older 2300sx as an "echo-plex". Just on one speed. Works great.
 
And I should have also said some CDs to cassette for the car, although the car's not going to go for a whole lot longer and its (I mean "her", sorry car!) replacement will probably have a CD player instead of a cassette deck. However, also some CDs to cassette because they just sound crap otherwise.
 
Fred Sanford said:
My multi-track decks still get use at live shows, remote recording sessions or songwriting rehearsals, then the tunes get transferred into ProTools for mixing. The stereo decks are VERY rarely used for recording, except occasionally so I can hear a mix-in-progress on a car system or boombox. They're often used for playback (listening or archival), since there's still a LOT of music that I only own in tape format.

Wait, just thought of an exception- some live shows get recorded in stereo with a Tascam 202 or Panasonic DAT (but, lately, more likely to be my Alesis Masterlink).

Haven't listened to radio (other than traffic reports) in decades.

je
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Cool, I get the impression live recordings have the best sound on rtr. I wish I could make some recordings of a live classical music concert.
 
I use Marantz SD-3000 2 speed Cassette deck,Pioneer RT0707,Pioneer Dual recorder deck CT-W900R for whatever I want to record on FM Radio mostly from our 2 local Smooth Jazz Instrumental Stations!I have other Silver Faced Decks that I also use.I have recorded Music using all forms of Recording Decks since at least the mid 60's so as You can well imagine I have thousands of tapes Cassettes,Reels of all sizes,lenghts and speeds and everyone of them are still in good shape physically and sonically and if I do have some problem with the older ones I make back ups well before they die....:)
 
Go to KLOU 103.3 FM, Saturday nights at 11:00 pm and record Little Steven's Underground Garage, Twenty years from now you will thank me, somehow.
 
But KLOU's sources sound so compressed, both signal and file compression.....awesome show, hto.
 
michaelhigh said:
Go to KLOU 103.3 FM, Saturday nights at 11:00 pm and record Little Steven's Underground Garage, Twenty years from now you will thank me, somehow.
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I get that show franchised on a local station. Great stuff! I don't really care to analyse the sound quality because I'm not gonna hear programming like that elsewhere.
 
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