Home taping is skill in music
Mar. 22nd, 2010 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezUp on that there FB right now are a few tracks from the other band I was in. (the) Total Bureau lasted for, um, about a year and then stopped in unfortunate circumstances. Being a pallbearer is a shit job.
Anyway. I have a few C90s from one or more Portastudios and I'm poking about at recovering the alleged songs.
My feeling is that I can scrape them off tape with a reasonably good cassette machine, hope that the azimuths on the various bits of kit were more or less aligned, reverse the tracks that come off tape backwards, apply rudimentary processing (Although Bob alone knows how one would un-DBX a track. Piss about with a parametric EQ until it stopped sounding shite, I think) and then somehow persuade all the recovered tracks to start at the right time so as to perform some kind of mixdown. Or just leave them as components.
I'm guessing Audacity, since Goldwave doesn't immediately appear to do multitrack.
Unless, of course, you know different.
Anyway. I have a few C90s from one or more Portastudios and I'm poking about at recovering the alleged songs.
My feeling is that I can scrape them off tape with a reasonably good cassette machine, hope that the azimuths on the various bits of kit were more or less aligned, reverse the tracks that come off tape backwards, apply rudimentary processing (Although Bob alone knows how one would un-DBX a track. Piss about with a parametric EQ until it stopped sounding shite, I think) and then somehow persuade all the recovered tracks to start at the right time so as to perform some kind of mixdown. Or just leave them as components.
I'm guessing Audacity, since Goldwave doesn't immediately appear to do multitrack.
Unless, of course, you know different.
