Recording Music Using a Multitrack Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
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Tape is back in the studio as a recording medium: That's a fact.
Artists are requesting to use tape to lay down their music, so studios are pulling-off the dust covers of long forgotten machines. But this new-found way of working brings its own problems for today's engineers, who entered the industry in the quarter of a century since tape went away.
Iain Betson of Reel Resilience joined the professional audio industry when tape was the only format to record on. Reel Resilience has not only seen a great increase in requests from studios wanting to invest in a multi-track tape recorder, but has also detected a skills-gap in users on how to approach recording on this new-cool, old-school medium.
In this 90-minute webinar Iain will walk you through what you need to do to prep a 4, 8, 16 or 24 track multi-track tape recorder prior to a session. The techniques outlined will be applicable to any multitrack recorder, regardless of the number of tracks it has.
We will discuss:
- What you must consider when laying down tracks.
- What tape to use and how to use it.
- What you need to do to store that tape afterwards.
- What technical issues you could expect when replaying an archive tape.
We will cover:
- Cleaning and crosstalk
- Track layout to line-up tones.
- Sync heads and tape speed.
- Drop-ins and drop-outs.
Like digital recording formats, analogue tape can be unforgiving in the recording process, but in different ways. So, you will want to make sure you get things right first time. Reduce your chances of analogue recording errors by joining us on this webinar.
About Iain: A BBC trained studio support engineer. He worked at London Broadcasting House, at the World famous Maida Vale studios and the radio outside broadcast department. In that time he supported Studer A80, A80 MT, A800MT,, A807, A810, A820 MT, Telefunken M15As, Lyrec Fred & Frida, Revox PR99 & Uher 4000 machines. Running Reel Resilience (reelresilience.co.uk) his clients include private and professional users of tape machines from Teac, Tascam, Akai, MCI and Otari.
Organiser Iain Betson of Reel Resilience
Organiser of Recording Music Using a Multitrack Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
Trained by the BBC as a studio support engineer at Broadcasting House in London, Iain worked in the studios at BH, at the world-famous Maida Vale studios, the Corporation's Radio "Outside Broadcast" department and latterly in their chain of local radio stations.
In that time he worked on a wide range of Studer/Revox recorders, from the PR99 to A800 24 track machines, as well as models from Telefunken (M15A), Uher (4000 Report series), Lyrec (Fred and Frida), Sony (PCM 3324), Mitsubishi (X-86) and Nagra (IV and V).
With the renewed interest in open-reel machines he has expanded this experience to other Studer machines (A820, A827), models from Otari (MTR 90 and MX-50), Teac and Akai
Find out more at www.reelresilience.co.uk
