[Jay Kahrs]

I love tracking to tape.

It's for the methods as much as anything else...

Sonics are up there, not secondary... but maybe.

Anything to keep that Pandora's box of DAW microedits closed... at least while cutting the very basic tracks on any given session.

I've tracked to tape & then dumped once we have a few keeper takes of a given song. I've also tracked to tape and had the output of the tape deck hit the DAW a second later... muso's tracking w/o cans in that case.

Good stuff.

I always track at 88.2 if possible... and run 2" 16 or 2" 24 at 15ips.

How any of this applies to your rig, who knows... best to record a lot & figure it out.

I do love tape though...