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Originally Posted by vernier  The records you mentioned have nothing to do with tracks ..its the drum sound, room sound, and the distorted guitars. All conventional stuff and no challenge for eight track. |
you cant make the layers with only 8 tracks, at least in one pass...
a big part of heavy music is using gates/automation/etc to push/pull sounds forward and back.... kick, snare, OHs, hat, room, toms have to be separate to make this happen.
the only way i could think to do it is track the drums to 8 track, do offline processing to clean it up, bounce to free up tracks, then lay down the rest... GTRs, vox, bass, etc. the drums take craftsmanship because the layers are an essential part of the sound. you have to transfer SSL tricks to 8 track tape
so, yes you can do it, but you need to bounce and really be sure of what you're doing... measure twice, cut once... i wouldnt track a whole band (drums, bass, gtrs, etc) with 8 tracks all at once... you'd need to think out a scheme for bouncing layers