All-Analog Recording and Mixing
On tape, no computers, no digital fiddling.
I learned how to record in the days of aligning tape machines, dolby, punching in and out, planning out how to fit the production into a limited track count, and having to make decisions right then and there. Editing requires cutting the tape, punching in to record also means you'll be erasing something you can't undo, and rewind time is a real thing to wait around for. Ah, but it's analog, and things seem to sound better when you watch the reels go around while it's playing. You can literally get your hands in there.
We can record to 2" 24-track at 30, 15, or even 7.5ips, with Dolby SR if you like. Studer A820 24-track, mixing to 1/4" or 1/2" 2-track tape, with EMT plate, live echo chamber, and tape delay slap or repeat. All mixed through classic analog outboard and a console. It's an automatic time travel to about 1970 on up to 2000 or so before digital came in and things got a bit easier, or so it seems.
The gear is all still here and you can do it just like we used to. A place to get tape in San Francisco is Analog Supply.
I also have reels of 2" if you want to record onto used tape.
We can record to 2" 24-track at 30, 15, or even 7.5ips, with Dolby SR if you like. Studer A820 24-track, mixing to 1/4" or 1/2" 2-track tape, with EMT plate, live echo chamber, and tape delay slap or repeat. All mixed through classic analog outboard and a console. It's an automatic time travel to about 1970 on up to 2000 or so before digital came in and things got a bit easier, or so it seems.
The gear is all still here and you can do it just like we used to. A place to get tape in San Francisco is Analog Supply.
I also have reels of 2" if you want to record onto used tape.
Track "Rinsing"
Run it through the wringer.
Another practice in the digital-analog setup is to run digital audio through special analog gear or onto tape machines and back to digital.
I can send all your digital files onto a 2" or 1/2" machine at any reference level you like. Call it a "rinse" through the analog gear! When the levels get higher, the tape reaches saturation and basically plays back less signal than pushed into it, which is a form of compression, but with saturation distortion and harmonics, creating non-linear artifacts that give you that analog sound. I can do it at a few different reference levels and you can choose which is best.
If you want to slam your drums into a real 1176 blue stripe and a real reverb chamber, or fatten up the bass through a dbx 160 VU or an EAR 660 and a Neve channel strip, I'll do it with a few options with different settings.
I can send all your digital files onto a 2" or 1/2" machine at any reference level you like. Call it a "rinse" through the analog gear! When the levels get higher, the tape reaches saturation and basically plays back less signal than pushed into it, which is a form of compression, but with saturation distortion and harmonics, creating non-linear artifacts that give you that analog sound. I can do it at a few different reference levels and you can choose which is best.
If you want to slam your drums into a real 1176 blue stripe and a real reverb chamber, or fatten up the bass through a dbx 160 VU or an EAR 660 and a Neve channel strip, I'll do it with a few options with different settings.
