Tape Hiss
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no, you're not. I never thought of hiss as the aspect of analog recording that makes things more ballsy.SpencerBenjamin wrote:Am I the only one who finds this odd?cjac9 wrote:...everything we've tracked sounds good but a bit anemic without that hiss underneath it.
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Well, 'hiss' is a sound from tape, but it's not the 'sound of tape'. I am currently tracking a project and have been spending time at the end of each night to bounce sounds off the Studer I have here.cjac9 wrote:I've just talked to a studio I'm cutting drums at soon and they said they'd hook me up. I'm recording a project that is going for an Ethan Johns sound and everything we've tracked sounds good but a bit anemic without that hiss underneath it. I would love to work with tape but I don't have the money for the tape and musicians and studio time. We barely have the money for musicians and studio time so that's what we are spending it on.
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Well, I do think that some sort of subtle sound (i.e. tape hiss) can be like a distant back curtain for the music to happen in front of. Which can be nice.
But I can't imagine it making something that is already anemic sounding sound much better...just like anemic recordings with a sample of tape hiss in there.
Didn't The Books mention using a sample of the self-noise of a digital recorder (recorded in the desert) so that "silent" parts of some songs would have a weight to them?
But I can't imagine it making something that is already anemic sounding sound much better...just like anemic recordings with a sample of tape hiss in there.
Didn't The Books mention using a sample of the self-noise of a digital recorder (recorded in the desert) so that "silent" parts of some songs would have a weight to them?
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I know what I said sounds ridiculous but listen to "Heartbreaker" and try to imagine those songs with no "tape hiss/noise" underneath them. It would sound like it was recorded in a vaccum and very unnatural, at least to me.
And the recordings themselves don't sound anemic, they have depth. This hiss will just be more of a curtain for the quieter parts.
But anyway, I've already found someone to make the samples for me and if it gets the effect I want than good and if not I'll try something else.
And the recordings themselves don't sound anemic, they have depth. This hiss will just be more of a curtain for the quieter parts.
But anyway, I've already found someone to make the samples for me and if it gets the effect I want than good and if not I'll try something else.
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F That...I always run my 16 bit files to an Otari running at 30ips to give my hiss more of a "professional" and "competitive" feel...MoreSpaceEcho wrote:i like to record things to digital at like -68dbfs in 16 bit, then run those tracks out to my otari running at 7.5 ips, keeping the levels as low as possible, meters just barely moving.
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