Analog Tape at 226 Recordings!
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16 November 2010
Ladies and gentlemen, we are very excited to announce that 226 Recordings has procured a beautiful Otari MTR90 MKII 24 track tape machine. I cut my teeth on tape and am really excited to get back to the good old sounds of analog. Tape and flying fader automation is a pretty awesome combination.
I am really excited to roll tape again! The punching, the smell, that sound of the reels spinning.....And oh yeah, the sound! To me, tape seems to add something to a production that's just "right". I can pull up a mix that was tracked well on tape and with almost no effort and get it in the ball park of where it needs to be. Tape compression seems to place everything almost by itself. I find myself having to work less to get more when I work with tape. Did I mention that I'm excited?!?!?!
I know a lot of folks around the US have adopted the workflow of tracking to tape and immediately dumping it into Pro Tools. I have a different philosophy on the subject however, and feel that a lot of the magic is lost when you digitize tape recordings immediately after tracking them. I intend to mostly use the machine to track and mix. No pitch correction, timing correction just real performances that sound friggin awesome.
Many bands consider tape out of reach because of the price it tends to add to a project. 226 will offer tape rentals and purchase of one pass reels (tape reels that have been recorded on once and erased) for reasonable prices. I am extremely excited to offer the excitement and excellence of tape to our community at a price bands can actually afford.
We anticipate the machine to be up and running by mid December.
Courtesy of 226 Recordings - Houston Recording Studio
