{"id":239,"date":"2008-05-19T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-05-19T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T18:45:39","slug":"tape-loops-the-easylazy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/05\/tape-loops-the-easylazy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"tape loops the easy\/lazy way."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week for the radio show, I took Portishead’s advice<\/a> and recorded an album on a 4-track cassette.<\/p>\n

Well, not really. I didn’t even read that article until about fifteen minutes before airtime. However, I did do something interesting with my 4-track that I’m sure somebody else has done before, but was new to me.<\/p>\n

My favorite local electronics surplus store (appropriately named Electronic Surplus, Inc.<\/a>) has been selling these 30-second endless outgoing answering machine tapes<\/a> for a while now (they’re fifty cents online, but onsite they’re a quarter? That may be a remnant of last summer’s moving sale, though, and once the box in the storefront is empty the in-store price could go back up). I’ve been picking up a handful every time I go, with the intention of maybe building something like a Melloman<\/a>. I finally decided to just try a few in the ol’ 4-track and see how it goes.<\/p>\n

It was kinda cool. Since the 4-track runs at double the speed of a standard cassette, my loops were 15 seconds rather than 30. The tapes do have a 1″ leader splicing the ends together, so there is a brief jump as it loops, but it didn’t necessarily take away from the experience. I basically left the 4-track (a Yamaha MT50) in record, and activated each channel as needed to record, using the blank splice as a mental start\/stop signal.<\/p>\n

Some example clips will be forthcoming. I’ve been busier than usual lately, so I haven’t had a chance to dump the tapes onto a computer yet. I’ll probably do something where I play each track individually, and then play all four at once.<\/p>\n

I’ll definitely be doing this sort of thing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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