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Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering  Generally speaking, do you treat each tape print as a completely new entity or do you try and replicate one version's sound when you find a second print varies? Do you think the variation you get is mainly due to the nature of analog tape or slight variations in how the tape is hit? |
Generally, yes. Although not so much within a project, but equally it's various machines and their particular calibration, or simply the mixes... Just last week: 1/4" mixes from an MCI JH110 (the very machine used for the mixdowns), 30 ips, no NR, but the mixes varied & hence the gain structure required; backing tracks were not the mixes minus vocals but completely different mixes.