The band is called Careless Hearts (
Careless Hearts on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos). This was recorded live to both Cubase (24/96 using Mytek 8x192) and to a MCI JH-110A 8-track at 15ips onto GP9. Everything was tracked live in the same room except for the singer/acoustic which was done in an iso room as a scratch track. The take being presented was not the take chosen for release. There are six tracks in each zip file. All the files were RMS-level matched to the digital clips. This works rather well for everything but the drums so I recommend for apples to apples comparison that you adjust the "kick" track by about +1.9dB and the "drums" track by +2.4dB. The difference in crest factor between tape and digital drums is huge because of how I was hitting the tape so play with it.
Mytek: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service Tape (transferred to DAW): MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service Digital Bounced to Tape (same tape levels as when tracked): MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service Digital through MCI electronics: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
Feel free to download these tracks into your DAW of choice and perform your own mixes so that you can get a feel how these tracks work together and respond to your equipment/plugins in a way that you would typically mix. As a reference I'm providing the following teaser rough mix clips. This is about 10 seconds of the song and is a levels only ITB exported mix. No EQ or compression was applied. Since I figured out that RMS-level matching didn't really work for the drums I did a second "tape" mix (TapePkITB) with the drum levels pushed up to give you a better apples to apples comparison to the digital mix. I SRC'd these five files with R8BrainPro to 44.1k to meet upload file size.
Enjoy! Any questions? Ask away.
Brad