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Originally Posted by ReaperMadness
Are you smokin' somethin' over there? Boy, are you doing things the hard way. Look around for an old portastudio.
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Madness!! Great name for this conversation - Agree - no portastudios to be found that are 1) in good shape and 2) low cost. Ebay wants 400.00 - 700.00 for somewhat ok to good quality units. Might have to have it serviced: align heads, new heads, rubber cables. Extra expense. Uncertain downtime. Headache. Only need it for 20 or so 4 trk tapes. Plan B. Smoking Life in the real world.
Results are actually very good - sync to key events. Not hard to do if you have musician abilities: 1EANA 2EANA 3EANA. Found increasing tape width around winding hub changes track alignment due to hub width getting larger: songs deeper into the tape need very little cutting within the song when timing locks vs songs at the tape's start. You don't know what you're missing!!!
Tapes I'm working with: Trks 1 / 3 are vocals / keys (played w/perfect Julliard timing), and Trks 2/3 are drum machine / vocals. Aligning drums / keys can be a challenge. If timing changes during the song, just cut drums and align to keys as song progresses. Chose to cut drums as keys were flawless: the anchor to lock to. Do this. See how it sounds to the end of the song. Now, take vocal Trk 2/4 and match it to vocal Trk 1/3. Might have to cut the Trk 1/3 vocals and align them tighter to keys. Suddenly, your mix is better than the original! Want killer vocals? Blend in vocal from 1/3 with cut / aligned vocal 2/4 and unaligned vocal 2/4 - vary volume / pan on the three vocal tracks, and you have almost a holographic vocal. Sounds more surreal than you might think. Hard work? Yes. Had to mix the songs. Did what I had to do. Madness? Yes. Tell me what is not madness in the music world
Reaper made this work a breeze.
Is there a way to mod the RATE Number / background area ? Thanks.