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Old 11th November 2005   #4
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Originally Posted by gainreduction
Oh, what I DON'T miss about tape is (when mixing) trying to eq the only hit on the floor tom that's in the song. Gotta love a loop in DAW for that.
Whenever i had to work with tape (1" 24 track or ADAT), i let the drummer
play a long tom pattern on a free piece of tape. So i was able to process
the toms and then i went back to the song to do some small changes.

Try that next time you have to record on tape.

I don´t miss that "short break" when the ADATs ate my tapes...
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