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Originally Posted by no ssl yet If I'm understanding this correctly, couldnt you just record the DI out take and the repro head simultaneousely to separate tracks, then match the tracks and have a delay amount that will be consistent every time for that machine at that speed?
And since you need to hear what you are playing couldn't you route the DI out to an aux as a monitor for every track thereafter? |
With my machine, there was only one output and you could only listen in repro, or with the signal that was just passing through the machine (no delay ). There may be some machines that allow you to send the repro and DI sound out at the same time, and in that case, yeah you could record them both essentially do what I was saying above.
It occurred to me though, that you might be able to make this whole process easier by recording in grid mode and setting your grid length to the number of samples the repro head offsets the signal by. Then when you re-import the tape tracks, you only have to shift the waveform back by one grid space. Make sense? I bet that would work.
Tape is cool and sounds great, but I don't think I'd want to do it again (w/ PT) without an assistant. Plus, I think digital will get better. (OK here comes my tangent). I was watching the history channel a few days ago and they were talking about the invention tape, and how it was utilized by Hitler in WWII for German propaganda. It also pointed out that the original tape sounded pretty bad ( there was also about a 20 or 30 year period before we got to the "golden age" of tape. So I figure that if they can use digital recording for war or propaganda, or if we can wait 20 or 30 years, we'll be at the height of a new medium. Maybe?