Tape Delight
My dad gave me an old Revox A77 reel tape recorder as a birthday present. He found it at a local flea market somewhere at the countryside at Funen. He asked if he could buy it for 50 dkk (10 us dollars!). The lady said: "Well, why not". "I don't know what the heck it is!".
Revox A77
It worked fine - he had to customize a power cable, though - the plug is an old format. It is only a two track recorder, but hey: "Less is more". Here is my first test on the Revox. I tried to be pure analog. Therefore I used my Danelectro guitar and the Vox amp.
Vox and Danelectro
Here's the result:
I also made a little tape glitch tune with the rec-pause-rec tip from the dust breeding blog:
December 14th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Really nice sounds... and wow... your pictures are not upside down!
December 15th, 2009 at 8:42 am
so beautiful!
nice work.
December 16th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Thanks marc! Yes it came out pretty good, but I must admit I find your rec-play-rec better - more atmospheric!
As a little bonus info, I can say that I exaggerate the tape flutter and wow effect by "punching" the tape gently while playing. Otherwise it would have been less tape-like.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Rockin that flange eh?.... I think that's actually where flanging got it's name from. Doubling a recording onto another tape recorder and putting ones palm on the 'flange' of one tape recorder to slow it down in comparison to the first recorder.