HOW I MAKE DRONE TRACKS USING A TAPE LOOP AND A DELAY PEDAL

in this video i describe my process for making drone tracks. i typically use my 424 portastudio and a delay pedal and then run that signal through a reel to reel tape machine. then i mix in ableton live. this video shows you that process. enjoy :)
you can find my music and samples on bandcamp: dylanweschler.bandcamp.com

[@HumbleInitiative]

I love drone tracks. Thanks for sharing your process.

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

Tape hiss makes it organic

[@arbitrarychemistry]

Glad I found this! Got some gear and a lot of vids out there but you are explaining how it works! Thank you 🙏

[@SBtrombone]

Very pleasant and not boring at all drone track! Thanks Dylan! Keep it up!

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

awesome sound , just how i like it ! could listen to this stuff forever...

[@natbaldino6497]

So happy to have found you. Been an ambient listener for a decade and only started making ambient via eurorack in the past couple of years, but after seeing your page I am 100% buying a porta. So many questions though!

[@dylanwesch9078]

thanks for watching! hit me up with any questions !

[@musicfromdusk]

Some great details here, thanks for sharing your workflow. Really helpful to see how you arrange drone tracks like this in ableton.

[@triplebacon1]

that was so refreshingly good!! and I had a eureka !! moment too! thank you ;-)

[@simonsemchenko3056]

Love your stuff man. Your tiktoks inspired me to pick up a reel to reel last week to try and do what you do

[@dylanwesch9078]

damn thank you so much mate! the reel to reel is so much fun I appreciate you stopping by 🙂🙂

[@Dionisaf]

Yeah! Good stuff 👍

[@jramosmusic]

Lovely content sir truly Inspiring.

[@douglaslangley6703]

Beautiful. Amazing tutorial thank you!

[@dylanwesch9078]

glad it was helpful, thank u for watchin

[@TheCinefotografiando]

Could it be to late for me to have found your video today in 2024? Love the process. So many questions! Which yellow cable is the one you are using? Also which camera you use and which recorder are you using for the voice off?!?

[@Artiin]

Hey, I found you on TikTok and absolutely fell in love with all your work. Keep it up!

[@dylanwesch9078]

hey thank u so much! let me know if there’s some other topics you’d like me to cover. I had a lot of fun doing this one😏😏

[@ArchipelagoEnt]

So dope.

[@virtualoasis2]

beautiful brother

[@pawelamaciwoda9086]

Nice one!

[@snake6833]

Good one. Thank you.

[@dylanwesch9078]

thx mate

[@brentallen9960]

This is really cool. Any idea where I could get this equipment? I am a newb with ambition.

[@adampelosi7895]

Love this... are you sending it from the phones out to the reel to reel?

[@mohammadfarzaneh]

Just like that !

[@cecilioromo7587]

How come the recording from your reel to reel is stereo if you were only using the right input? cheers!

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

I own a 488 mk2 and it has an Auto stop function. Does anyone know if i need a specific rubber around the area where the Auto stop is or what can I do to create tapeloops. I love Ambient/drone music and would love to do this too, sadly i can only Record and play currently :(

[@CalmRelaxedPeace]

Of all the tape deck players I can buy which one do you recommend? The Portastudio 424?

[@animamundi9652]

Inner ocean m4l device. Cheers

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

Been looking at reel to reel tape machines but I have no idea what I'm looking at or what I'm buying anyway yeah this is cool I just found this Yamaha cassette player and recorder with a pitch slider on it from 1976 so hopefully that pitch slider will slow everything down to ambient speed

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

Update it didn't work at all lol. Returned it (also I love sellers on eBay that "don't accept returns " lol trust u can return anything FYI anyway I'll just keep messing with my little microcasette recorder untill I take that next step and buy a real to real

[@ineedstuff8286]

@@LoVeAmBiEnT get a tascam to bridge the gap.. thats what i did... look for the tascam 424 mk3. In the video, he has an mk1 basically. Which has only two bands of eq. The mk3 has a hi a lo, AND a TUNABLE mid!!.. that part was huge for me, cuz I wanted a bit more mixing ability but... I feel one could just collect ALL tascams :D.. this will get you going on learning about tape and over time you will graduate to reel to reel. I almost bought a reel to reel but, i mean, I need way more practice and experience before i would even push the record button on the reel.

[@stuartchapman5171]

@@LoVeAmBiEnT I have a long history of tape machines, Walkmans, both type of dicta phones, legal transcribers, open reel etc...... Don't buy one........yet They are unreliable and prone to letting you down, first get a Tascam or Zoom digital portable recorder, the best you can afford, I use a hn4pro, but a h2 will do the trick, they work as an interface too. Now buy tape machines, when the tape machines let you down, you can still record and recreate virtually all the lofi lovelyness of tape with a basic daw. I still prefer to use tape and I live my modern new cheap Walkman Uher report from 1970 and my Tascam porta2 (waiting for new capacitors) but if they all died, and I lost all my pedals and did synths to a fire or burglary. I can still create.

[@saren6538]

@@ineedstuff8286 or move up to a 488

[@bucksmoonlightrevival]

Love all these sounds! We just finished a concept album recorded on the Tascam 488 Portastudio. It's alt-folk style music with some experimental sounds like tape loops, musical saw, synths, field recordings, etc. It's uploaded on our channel if anyone wants to check it out!

[@ineedstuff8286]

sounds great just reading this!!! EDIT: WHOA!!.. you guys KILLED IT!!! the vibes were AMAZING!! amazing complex emotional textures!!

[@bucksmoonlightrevival]

@@ineedstuff8286 thanks a lot! 😄 we worked really hard so it means alot!

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

I own a 488 mk2 and it has an Auto stop function. Does anyone know if i need a specific rubber around the area where the Auto stop is or what can I do to create tapeloops. I love Ambient/drone music and would love to do this too, sadly i can only Record and play currently :(

[@stuartchapman5171]

​@@JazzyFunkaHolic I'm by no means an expert in the field. However I've made a lot of loops. Hacked a lot of machines for this dort of thing, and have sold quite a lot of them. Don't make your loops too tight. It'll trigger the auto stop, or not play at all. This works by sensing tension at the nd of the tape. I don't currently have a cassette multi track but a lot of machines have a small plastic widget that enters the hole on the left of the cassette. This feels for tension. This hole is in between the centre (play back) hole and the furthest left (erase head) hole. The loop must be loose enough to allow the widget to enter this hole freely.

[@cameronchristopherson3919]

Love your stuff man! Reminds me of Brian Eno doing the soundtrack to an 80s movie. What kind of plugins/ gear do you use for the keys? They sound great!

[@dylanwesch9078]

yo thank u! these keys are recorded straight from my korg volca fm synthesizer onto the tascam. i just use some EQ and compression in ableton

[@robmacleod9225]

What do you use originally to make the sound on each individual track?

[@dylanwesch9078]

i used a korg volca fm synth to make the original sounds on the tape loop

[@robmacleod9225]

@@dylanwesch9078 thanks for the details & I appreciate you taking the time to answer. My journey with tape loops is just beginning. It is great to learn from folks like you.

[@saren6538]

@@robmacleod9225 how’s the journey 1 year on ? 😅

[@KosmoDeuz]

I fail a sleep by the end of video

[@StevenClements]

your plants in the way... or you're in the plants way ;)