This video, via wouter van Veldhoven, explores four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno: looping, delay, reverse delay and saturation.
Four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno:
- a tape loop system (1 recorder, top right)
- long delay (2 recorders: top left and middle right)
- reverse delay (bottom middle)
- tape feedback/tape saturation on system 1, 2 and 3
The Tascam 8 track is not doing anything here – except being an expensive table for two other recorders,
van Veldhoven notes, “the video in the second part doesn’t really match the music, the camera fell so I couldn’t use the original. I wasn’t doing all that much except for letting the long tape delay saturate on itself for a very very long time.”
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Reminds me of some of the Plastikman stuff
So educational. I don’t know what I will do with all of these new “techniques”.
Tape is the new vinyl
Hmmmm, I think i’ll go and do some cut-n-paste of audio regions in my DAW to reproduce this. The future is good.
very nice and pure
Nice old school stuff – very experimental and hard to do… Tape loop tones and atmospheres can’t be replicated in a DAW, i know i’ve tried : / only tape can produce electromechanical tonal nuances and accidental noise fluctuations. One day on a computer but not yet – keep it up dude:)
You lost me after the brash sounds coming in at 3:00, bit harsh for a minimal track. But I admire what you are accomplishing here.
Yes, I absolutely agree! I opened the wrong channels and the patch became pretty extremely distorted, had to work my way out again
This guy is making music his own highly experimental way, and think that it’s great.
Great, great work! I want that kind of stuff live and more regularly!
Superb stuff…