Tape Hiss

Recording Techniques, People Skills, Gear, Recording Spaces, Computers, and DIY

Moderators: drumsound, tomb

cjac9
gettin' sounds
Posts: 101
Joined: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:18 pm
Location: San Antonio, TX
Contact:

Tape Hiss

Post by cjac9 » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:53 pm

I'd really like to add a track of tape hiss to some digital recordings I'm doing but every sample of tape hiss I can find off of CD's that I have won't loop right. I've seriously tried every crossfade setting and they are all audible.

Does anyone have long .WAV's of pure tape hiss samples that they would be willing to send me? Or have any ideas on how to get a sample of this?

Thanks

User avatar
msmith
pushin' record
Posts: 201
Joined: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:53 am
Location: Austin, TX

Post by msmith » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:03 pm

Come by HotTracks!!! and we will set you up with some tape noise(s)
matt

getreel
carpal tunnel
Posts: 1563
Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:01 am
Location: The Oldest Town in Texas
Contact:

Post by getreel » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:27 am

There are plugins that will make hiss too.

User avatar
RodC
dead but not forgotten
Posts: 2039
Joined: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:53 pm
Location: Right outside the door
Contact:

Post by RodC » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:38 am

Its not Tape Hiss, but I like to take a real dirty pre amp and crank it up with no mic hooked up and record the Hiss.
'Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones'

http://www.beyondsanityproductions.com
http://www.myspace.com/beyondsanity

User avatar
;ivlunsdystf
ghost haunting audio students
Posts: 3290
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:15 am
Location: The Great Frontier of the Southern Anoka Sand Plain
Contact:

Post by ;ivlunsdystf » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:11 am

Amazingly, there's nothing on the search for "tape hiss" at freesound, but I think you should nose around freesound a bit anyway. It's a site where people upload samples from their handheld recorders and such. Try http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/searchText.php - there's a very good search engine there.

I bet you can find some hiss over there somewhere, and then most of the samples are fair game under Creative Commons licensing. They just got a Google grant so the site should be even better soon.

cjac9
gettin' sounds
Posts: 101
Joined: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:18 pm
Location: San Antonio, TX
Contact:

Post by cjac9 » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:47 am

As for plugins, all I have is Vinyl and it doesn't come close. I'll check out Freesound. If not I guess I can bug the studio I'm recording at soon to just make me like a 20 second loop or something.
Last edited by cjac9 on Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.

User avatar
;ivlunsdystf
ghost haunting audio students
Posts: 3290
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:15 am
Location: The Great Frontier of the Southern Anoka Sand Plain
Contact:

Post by ;ivlunsdystf » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:05 am

I think I might rectify the glaring omission of tape hiss at freesound later this week. That is simply a tragic thing not to have at a library of sounds.

User avatar
jv
pushin' record
Posts: 282
Joined: Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:00 pm
Location: Seattle, WA

Post by jv » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:27 am

Or you could go to a thrift store and pick up a cassette deck...

User avatar
Blade
takin' a dinner break
Posts: 158
Joined: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:26 pm
Location: Houston TX

Post by Blade » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:06 am

jv wrote:Or you could go to a thrift store and pick up a cassette deck...
Yep, or it might just be to LO-FI for what is needed...HAHAHA!

Cjac...
Are you looking for LO-FI or HI-FI tape hiss???

Maybe somewhere in the middle.....LOL!

drumsound
zen recordist
Posts: 7474
Joined: Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:30 pm
Location: Bloomington IL
Contact:

Post by drumsound » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:20 am

Blade wrote:
jv wrote:Or you could go to a thrift store and pick up a cassette deck...
Yep, or it might just be to LO-FI for what is needed...HAHAHA!

Cjac...
Are you looking for LO-FI or HI-FI tape hiss???

Maybe somewhere in the middle.....LOL!
I could get crazy and hook up my 3M 2' but set it to run at 7.5ips so it would both hi and lo fi. But I won't.

User avatar
lapsteel
pushin' record
Posts: 251
Joined: Mon May 15, 2006 9:46 pm
Location: Omaha, NE

Post by lapsteel » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:11 am

haha lo-fi and hi-fi tape hiss

User avatar
Dakota
re-cappin' neve
Posts: 740
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:14 am
Location: West of Boston
Contact:

Post by Dakota » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:39 am

Tatertot wrote:Amazingly, there's nothing on the search for "tape hiss" at freesound, but I think you should nose around freesound a bit anyway. It's a site where people upload samples from their handheld recorders and such. Try http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/searchText.php - there's a very good search engine there.
Freesound is awesome and fun. I've gotten so much useful stuff there.

swelle
takin' a dinner break
Posts: 195
Joined: Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:46 pm

Post by swelle » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:23 am

Wasn't digital supposed to get rid of tape hiss?

Maybe try mixing to tape and see if you like the real deal... It's also good for archiving, btw.

RefD
on a wing and a prayer
Posts: 5993
Joined: Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:10 pm

Post by RefD » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:29 am

jv wrote:Or you could go to a thrift store and pick up a cassette deck...
AMEN.

i mean, damn... just record a track off a blank cassette tape if you want hiss!

*offers to pop some normal bias Maxell UR60s into the post*
?What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.? -- Seneca

User avatar
JGriffin
zen recordist
Posts: 6739
Joined: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:44 pm
Location: criticizing globally, offending locally
Contact:

Post by JGriffin » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:32 am

swelle wrote:Wasn't digital supposed to get rid of tape hiss?
And CDs were supposed to get rid of groove noise, but that doesn't stop folks from using it as an "effect."
"Jeweller, you've failed. Jeweller."

"Lots of people are nostalgic for analog. I suspect they're people who never had to work with it." ? Brian Eno

All the DWLB music is at http://dwlb.bandcamp.com/

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 46 guests