I Pimped Up My Tape Recorder

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[@juancarlosmostvideosdiezro5583]

long life to analog, thank you for bring us the beauty of this perfect machine

[@ProjectOverseer]

I haven't used a Tape splicer for years ... I'd like to to say "good memories" but to be honest, I'm so glad those days are, well gone - for me at least. Now the studio uses (32 track hardware recording) PCM multi track up to 192kHz and DSD to SSD, and of course DAW recording into the Mac from the desk - all seamless from hardware to software ... Though I'll admit Reel to Reel looks VERY cool especially pimped out machines 😂

[@miguimau]

You really love your tape recorder. :D And it makes senses, it´s cooooooool.

[@ashkanmousavi]

Could you please make a video about the background of Dr.Mix, how did you found it and where the idea came from.

[@Doctormix]

Ok, I’ll do it!

[@jacoblindsey7675]

@@Doctormix I love how responsive you are. Looking forward to this video. Cheers man! Keep it up.

[@b11worth]

Loved the new items you received and the presentation. Continue to enjoy yourself.

[@LiveeviL6969]

I'm in love with that machine! Love the red reels!

[@n00b22]

It drives me crazy that you didn't clean the machine before putting on the new reels .. 🤯 .. anyway great video as always .. love the analogue content. :)

[@artisticboundaries]

He replied on the live chat that it wasn't dust. It's wear marks...

[@cbmsysmobile]

Nice to see someone getting so excited about 1/4" tape these days. Somewhere in storage I have a large quantity of BASF 7" and 10" spools of Long Play and Double Play tape. Been wondering what to do with it for years.

[@Vareso]

This channel is just so good!

[@JohnMark61355]

I enjoyed the video and congratulations on the updates-very cool. I am sorry to say, we both have a similar sense of humor😊-my poor wife. My first reel-to-reel of that size was a Sears Silvertone (early to mid-1960’s). It was no Studer but I had a lot of fun with it.

[@duduramos]

Fantastic! I had an AKAI GX 4000 Db. I did a lot of remixes. Great video, I went back in time.

[@ismaelcortesjr9281]

I love this video . I miss working on tape . As always you Rock.

[@BillyBrasilOficial]

A consumer dream. Only those who know and have a love for production know how much this equipment has emotional value. Total 80s. Dr Mix is ​​the guy

[@RaffaeleCaputo01]

Grandioso come sempre

[@trulyinfamous]

Your voice is one of those you forget how much you love when its been a while, like with Matt Shultz, the lead singer of cage the elephant, I realize I love it after hearing it.

[@reytunezbz]

This is really neat i think im gonna start record sounds with CDs and cassette tapes just for fun😄

[@DjDestinyChicago]

I recently acquired an old Sony reel to reel. I’m actually super impressed with the sound quality! I also purchased the splicing tools. I think I’m gonna make a dj mix with this 👍👍

[@jpaul2559]

Younger I was also working with Studer at a major radio station in Montreal for 27 years. I think what's still working today. I made the cuts of the tape, with a razor blade. You make me laugh so much when you get a new box, you breathe it, I do the same thing. I have nostalgia for the analog. thank you Doc

[@Doctormix]

Hey man! Really? Cool :-) so you know your way around the splicing tape huh? 🤟

[@Val_Cla]

Are you going to do some tape loops ☺️ ? I'd love to hear the Claudio interpretation of Ambient tape loops 😉

[@alesandrorogeriowenger3649]

Very good video. And very good tape recorder. Congrats. From Brazil.

[@dragonelectricodevenus]

Fantastic ritual!!!

[@pcallas66]

Beautiful machine.

[@johnkaplun9619]

ATR still makes tape here in the US too, they're great as well

[@KenJencks]

I enjoy your passion. Very nice machine.

[@TapeFlip]

ooh yes, some nice warmth and saturation with the tape!

[@kirabarsmith9353]

Big tape fan here, enjoyed this, please do more features related to the topic:)

[@djnazgra]

remember dad playing his music on tape. did had cool mixes on it,

[@nottusleinad]

Urban Sessions purchased 👍 Great to still be able to buy new music on CD

[@sirgashmbe_nwa5397]

man that's beautiful

[@saladdays180s9]

You obvious you are a pretty stylish dude, and it stands to reason a couple of cool looking anodized reels were in your future. I put red and purple anodized reels on my NAGRA T audio with timecode. It is beautiful, and I feel your upgrade. Nice!

[@DANTEFISI]

Love it

[@tobytruman33]

Awesome (just added Urban Sessions to my Apple Music too - absolutley love it). I would love to know how you guys run all of your outboard gear in your studio!

[@mikytube69]

Magnetic is magic!!!

[@aviking9308]

Ur a genius Doc

[@WebProgramiranjeKonsultacije]

Wooow. I worked in radio station on the Philips with 6 heads, looks similar like N4450. There was 2pcs, we do various magic but my favorite magic is echo simulation in live program. The best one.

[@dijpdepijp2154]

Very nice ^^

[@256byteram]

Aw yea! Gotta love tape! I'm privileged enough to own a Studer Revox A77. My band doesn't have a drummer at the moment so we pre-record the drum tracks to it and use it at gigs. Just a shame the cast frame weighs a ton.

[@marksab]

I love your channel, could I request a video about early 80's Italo Disco grooves? that would be super awesome.

[@soniclab-cnc]

That studer sounds amazing.

[@Doctormix]

Doesn't it? :) I love it

[@dabistudio_japan]

Oh my Darwin! I love your music Claudio-Dr. Mix! Your videos and your team are amazing! I’m a Mexican producer living in Japan and I enjoy every day your videos while I’m on the crowded trains in Tokyo. I’m very glad I found your channel. I produce all my music with Reason, Logic and the Arturia collection. I wander if you can make a video about Reason 10. All the best Claudio!!!

[@Doctormix]

Aww thank you!! Wow Japan!! That’s so cool. I’ve never been there. Maybe one day 🕺🤟🚀💥

[@kaitlyn__L]

I'd love to see the inversion comparison between tape and source, like you demonstrated for MP3 in the video you made about the inversion technique. It can be hard to tell what's really there and what's placebo, seeing you switch between the sources like that. So it'd be neat to see/hear the empirical difference between the two.

[@ProSimex84]

Nothing makes me happier then using my real to reel.

[@Cesarsound1]

Tape hiss is so nice.

[@djbonne1]

Owww beautifull!!!!!

[@gigiilmilionario2]

Feels like an unique track and less segmented than the digital one, a little bit more enthralling. Good for some music, less for other, nice video.

[@jackglez7982]

Cool the old technology rocks!!

[@kielhall8363]

Cool analogy once ruled the world

[@mullewap6670]

Wow its a great beautyfull stutter Tape machine.I Love it locks Like.

[@markphilpot4981]

Recapping is one thing to get the refreshed renewed performance you are looking for out of any high end machine. Your ears will love it. That is a bombass machine. Studer A-80, is an explanation really necessary? Only if you don’t know reel to reel from jack! If your recording that from CD to reel, hope you have a really great CD transport and outboard D/A converter. I was thinking Meridian. Really nice stuff. Regardless, I like what I was hearing off that CD. I like that music anyway. Enjoy it guy because A80s are not too plentiful in pristine condition!😁🥰

[@richardvanenteren2745]

That Urban Sessions album really is so damn good!!! I listen it on Tidal now, for days. The playing of all instruments are incredible good and you can hear very good who's playing the key's;-). Also the mixing and mastering is fabulous. I can't sit still when I listen it. Are there new albums coming in the future? Also listened to your own album "After Hours Ritual feat. Dave Weckl & John". This is you or am I wrong? Anyway, thanks for sharing all the good stuff and I hope you will keep doing this for a long time. I didn't play music for a long time but seeing the fun you have in playing gave me inspiration and set up my gear again and am busy to setup my Mac again to play some music again. And I love Reel to Reels😍.

[@benjaminprietop]

This is awesome! As much as I love the new advantages brought by digital recording, there's just something about analog recording that makes it very special

[@DanDuskin]

Not subtle. WOW! Huge sound!

[@Doctormix]

I think so too :) But I have to assume that not all ears are trained as much as mine 🤣

[@bobjerome5390]

hi have a otari my self did not have the space for this model you are right it sounds ace my otari mtr takes 1/2 tape and at the time i came into 100 used once zonal tapes lost for words otari decks are about the same it's down to spare i can change over to 1/4 1/8 tapes 1/8 is play back and record from start to end as tape is thin i have to change rollers over as well when change size of the tape and tenson as well love the way you come over

[@russ8889]

Them Detroit boys used to splice there tapes and put the 909 drums backwards...........Track you played reminds me of Nuyorican Soul /Rotary Connection 😎

[@christophefeuillade6107]

Music is sundently more alive 😎

[@TR6Telos]

Is a time machine with Love.

[@arminfatol]

Woow! Awesome video! Nice recorder and tapes! Only... I think it would have been nice to use command/control Solo button, instead of clicking Mute one by one, that way there would be no pause between switching tracks. But I love all you do anyways, so... keep it rolling! ;)

[@paicyber]

Perfeito.

[@jakedelmastro]

ATR magnetics also make new tape as far as I know

[@TheMartvigs]

Interesting:)

[@andriealinsangao613]

Hey Doc, can you please teach us how to record from a computer to tape? Thanks a bunch!

[@cravenroad7594]

Claudio, spero che mi perdonerai la scurrilitá, ma sei un cazzo di MITO per me!!! Grazie Claudio, grazie di tutta questa cultura, di tutta questa conoscenza!! Sei un faro per ogni tecnico del suono che abbia ancora un minimo di interesse nel fare musica come una volta, con difficoltá, con sforzo, ma con risultati che al solo pensiero fanno venire la pelle d’oca!! E pensa che io ho soltanto ventisei anni, ma la musica come la si faceva, come la si produceva una volta, per tutta quella che ho ascoltato, non potrá mai essere la stessa di adesso, MAI!! Suonare insieme a Steve Gadd posso solo immaginare che onore dev’essere stato!! Grazie ancora Claudio, grazie di ogni magnifico video postato!!! Ti seguiró sempre! ❤️

[@endlandmusic]

As a Studer A-80 owner: some of the tape guide bearings are noisy and, after you already used some Ampex stuff, you‘ll have to align the machine to the RTM tapes. Nevertheless the A-80 sounds awesome anyway. Little advice: put a ppm meter ( RTW or ATP ) in the input chain to obtain the optimum record level for the machine. 😀

[@LegendaryRadioJock]

RTM is not the only company making new tape. In the USA there is ATR Magnetics and they use the Ampex formula.

[@EddieTheGreat13]

Can you gives some lesson/ guide on how to use a master tape recorder

[@mattsynth]

I could never go back to tape now that I am use to digital recording. The rewinding, tracking and the hiss removable. AHHHHHHH

[@Djkaludis]

Super cool, lets do it dude

[@bwzes03]

Very nice deck m8!!! Might get some parts of the transport chromeplated, for even more bling factor? What speed is it running at ? 15ips ?

[@Doctormix]

Nice idea!! Yes 15

[@dykodesigns]

How many tracks does this tape have? Could you show us sometime how to make tapeloops?

[@christopantz]

its a stereo mastering deck, so just 2

[@alex1520]

ATR also still make tape, but the point is still valid, if you want decent fresh tape there are not a lot of choices, you're probably purchasing from RTM or ATR

[@soundmangaz6833]

I want a revox B77. The version with the 15ips tape speed, something magical about the format

[@lutalivre1983]

Soundman Gaz I have a MK2 I’ll sell you in pristine condition

[@soundmangaz6833]

justin lee how much?

[@Vitalka_project]

Do you mixed to original digital track or use track from tape for release?

[@rickenbacker40011]

ATR also makes tape!

[@Wildernessoutside]

id love to see you making tracks with the Maschine and boss 505 then record live to the tape or go proper old school and make a tape loop to send into Maschine to build a track ?

[@augmentedkeys5971]

Claudio, Do you mean THE Steve Gadd? The drummer who played for Steely Dan - The legendary session drummer?

[@Doctormix]

Yes

[@Peter-W1]

Yeaaa good old analog stuff I can rely hear the soft rich sound in the tape, and the reel color fits your lava lampt too 😎😎👍👍👍

[@ClearMountainProductions]

What kind of sound paneling do you use in your studio?

[@jimmorrisoncold]

Hi Dr. Mix what tape formula do you used ?

[@nicolaspedrofernandezpuig9503]

superior!!!!.........I need to start tu create music now!!!........ Alesis Q88 and computer is good to the first step?......

[@mariyaakigawa8351]

Your microphone is nice. It's sound looks so sharp. Where do you brought it? From store or internet? (I'll using it on my stage performence.)

[@Doctormix]

www.thomann.de/gb/akg_c_520_l.htm

[@YC-757]

형 너무 귀여우신거 아녀요~ ^^

[@bobjerome5390]

hi big boy in a toy shop i have a otari mtr 12 my self the pancakes you got are very likely for 12 inch reels i like otari unit's be could i can change to 1/2 inch tapes on my unit

[@sebb440]

i would have imagine that the color of tape recording was from recording analog to it or at least to play tape back a without digital chain. What s your sampling rate then when you record it back digitally, do you oversample ?Thanks

[@Doctormix]

I use a standard 44.1 at 24 bit for most of my work

[@Kevin-vq6rv]

I definitely hear a difference. Can you phase-flip the original track against the transferred track so we can hear what the tape actually does?

[@Doctormix]

I should do that

[@fordprefect4345]

Just been given one of these. Where do I get those bits from?

[@PooNinja]

Red reels Rule the top load tape deck! is that just a 2 track? i cant see the heads?

[@Doctormix]

Yup 2 tracks

[@xandermijares342]

Do a cover of Break my Stride by Matthew Wilder. Lots of synth

[@ismaelcortesjr9281]

Is there an option where we can purchase a master or our mix on tape? . I have an old TEAC x-10R that still plays .

[@Doctormix]

Of course! Send me a message on the www.doctormix.com/contact-us

[@bobjerome5390]

hi cool lot out there i got hold of some btacam sp betacam digi decks i will say they can be used as audio masters as there's at of new old stock about wow the old betacam can kick the behide of alot of reel to reel decks i have 35 year old blue betacam tape that sound better than the reel to reel at the same time beware when reselling pimped insides don't go well on resell been there

[@CainaanDC]

So what are you gonna do with the old one ?

[@Doctormix]

Keep it as spare?

[@hifinphoto]

What was that software that monitored the tape ?

[@SpamMouse]

I used to repair and line-up these machines, including A800 2" tape machines. Sham you use the fixed blade to cut your tape and not an aluminium block stuck to the deck offering 45° and 90° edits with a free single-edged razor blade, pizazz personified Claudio. With your ears surely you can hear a 45° edit, there's a good example on the beginning/end of Pink Floyd's The Wall. BTW have you checked the safety mods for the A80? Some of the wires that supply the motors can be loose enough that they get chaffed by the exposed rotating part of the motor inside.

[@Doctormix]

Really? Link please!

[@jonvincentmusic]

To be fair he was only splicing on some leader tape, it's not like he was trying to make a sonically transparent edit mid song.

[@synterr]

Little bit muted high frequencies, but nice harmonics added at low-mid. Am I correct? ;)

[@Doctormix]

What I notice mostly is the change in texture in the mids.. it sounds creamy and "glued" together. Top end becomes rounder, low end becomes more compact.

[@Pauluz_The_Web_Gnome]

I have cd and dvd!

[@mschorer]

How can I grab a copy of your first album?

[@Doctormix]

Here doctormix.com/urban-session.html

[@synthnseq]

Perfect opportunity to invert the phase of one of the audio files, keep both tracks perfectly time aligned, bring up the fader gradually of one track while the other is playing. Then you can hear EXACTLY what the tape machine has done because all of the identical waveforms in each track will cancel each other out due to phase cancellation, leaving just the extra added enhancements created by the tape machine coming out of the monitors. The thing is, it's probably too subtle for people brought up on a diet of dubstep and trap :(

[@Doctormix]

Good idea!!!!

[@Wyatt-Barton]

Where are the electronics for the tape machine? That's a pretty risky way of loading a pancake reel. Points off for not using a splicing block and a fresh razor blade but at least you are using RTM instead of ATR. That piano with the synth setup is pretty rad would like to know more about that.

[@youbecha64]

LOL...I simply unscrew the reels, swap the tape pancake for the empty hub...of course if you have fancy hubs to wind the tape on...then you will have to fast forward a tape anyway (done that too)

[@munix]

What about some simple job like remake the Tomorrow Never Knows loops (The Beatles) ? :P

[@simonemghilardi]

Ciao Claudio, c'é anche ATR Magnetics che produce ancora nastri!

[@Doctormix]

Oh cool!

[@novawax]

Por tu acento pensé que estabas en Miami pero estas en UK 🇬🇧. De todas formas, se que eres latino quizás cubano?