Hey there. For a new project, I'm doing a band with a Roland MC505 drum machine instead of a drummer. It's a pretty good machine, though it uses samples of old drum patches (808, 909, etc.) instead of generating them itself.
Anyway, I'm recording to 1/2 eight track and on a few songs have been getting what I can only describe as "ghost beats" in the drum track. That is, as we're doing overdubs, we're hearing very dismaying echoes (pingpingping poc poc) of our drum sounds in the headphones, which I presume (though I'm not positive) are printed to the tape.
This never happened on our four-track demos.
If anyone has any idea what might be going on, I would GREATLY appreciate guidance.
Thanks!
recording drum machine to tape question (ghost beats)
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Re: recording drum machine to tape question (ghost beats)
Are you printing really hot? Maybe it's print-through going onto the layers below it as the tape gets spooled.
Maybe?
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Maybe?
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Re: recording drum machine to tape question (ghost beats)
that's a good thought...kinda like when a loud click track can do this...
hmmm. i wonder if it is the snare that is giving the most problem...
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hmmm. i wonder if it is the snare that is giving the most problem...
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Re: recording drum machine to tape question (ghost beats)
either that or there's a mic picking it up from someone's cans. see if you can isolate it to a track. just go through and solo each track. you'll probably hear it on one (possibly two) tracks. might have to re-record them! if you don't hear it while soloing tracks, then it might not have printed... i dunno where it'd be coming from in that case.
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Re: recording drum machine to tape question (ghost beats)
Sounds like "print through"....transfer of a recorded signal from one layer of tape to another because of magnetic induction. You get false signals or pre-echo on playback. Too high of recording levels can cause this along with storage. temp, tape thickness...Always store the tape tails out to avoid it.
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Re: recording drum machine to tape question (ghost beats)
Yep, what they said!
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Thanks! I'll report back with results ...
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