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saturation skill

By Q-Rosh on June 23, 2024 5:29 pm

this week I was occupied with working and an interesting seminar about skills in DBT by Marsha M Linehan. The only day I could find time for music was on sunday afternoon. And the song I wanted to make should be about the magic of tape cassettes. Everything should sound like a very badly used tape, almost losing the surface with the magnetic film, still sounding saturated. As well I wanted to include the typical dolbybutton effect, that feels like suddenly standing in the rain.
The music is a quick jam with the SP404, effectpedals and the OP-1. It was difficult to bring the result into an audible mastermix, because the substance was very nibbled. the main commitment and skill for me here was radical acceptance.
Then I made my job to cut this track on polycarbonate with the recordcutter and made the whole thing even more analog and lofi. You can listen to WilCOx-RaW-CAts on WB.

Damaged tapes sound so cool.  This definitely captures that feeling well.  I can imagine having to use a pencil to have to wind the cassette back up after the tape all came out while playing.

That results in a dream-like track. The low and mid frequencies are very syrupy and nice. I love the experiments you make with tapes, that is inspiring!

i will stand out in the tape rain with you with no umbrella. i am back in my first vehicle, windows down, tape slammed into console, volume up till the entire vehicle is filled with hiss and smoke and bass
thank you again, Q-Rosh

love the textures in this track a lot, lots of interesting stuff, loads of character

What a nice, steady, rhythmically intriguing track. heart

Wow, sounds like quite a process. There's such interesting texture in you tracks, like there's many depths to feel physically. And that then goes into the mind and emotions as well.

Funky textures. I don't have any tape deck, probably not the patience to run audio thru tapes - capture - edit at this time neither, but for sure that real tape saturation is very nice, most likely way more random than those fun tape emulation plugins...

Keep it up!

i love how this can disintegrate so delicately and never lose the energy of moving forward. i'm always engaged and never taken out of it. beautiful textures and process. favorited!

so coooool I need to get into tape!

Love the gritty tape feels throughout this.  Feels like you unearthed a time capsule of records and were checking out the goodies smile  Those lil stutter fx lines are super sweet!

Wow this just oozes texture, the tape is practically tangible here. No idea how you'd mix something like this but I'd say you nailed it, there's a rich, bassy darkness that I absolutely love.

Swirling in this nice wave of tape wash you have created, amazing. Makes me want to experiment too and that's nice. Always nice to hear your sonic explorations. I like the drums here too, great effects, from 404 I'm guessing.

I'm a fan of tape saturation and saturation in general.  My track for week 27 highlights that a bit actually.  And so you've got a record cutter now??  I'm curious.  It's not the TE one they released a while back by any chance?

rdomain wrote:

I'm a fan of tape saturation and saturation in general.  My track for week 27 highlights that a bit actually.  And so you've got a record cutter now??  I'm curious.  It's not the TE one they released a while back by any chance?


Thank you for listening,
I participate with a second account on WB this year, where I try to cut a record every week with a ninety year old Wilcox-Gay Recordio. It has a unique sound and limited EQ range from 500-5000 Hz with lots of hiss and hum.
https://weeklybeats.com/wilcox+raw-cats
I did a website years ago about this machine and my other gear.
https://www.q-rosh.com/
You are welcome to have a look.

Thanks.  Will have a look for sure!

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