Tandberg reel to reel and cassette ?

[Chimike]

Just thought I ask out there if there's anybody in the Basschat fraternity who's  still into Analogue recording using the mid 80's Tandberg recording gear.

Never know, unless you ask !

[BigRedX]

Not any more.

 

My first band's debut album (initially released on cassette back in 1980) was recorded on a Tandberg reel-to-reel that the percussionist's (we didn't have a drummer) mum borrowed from the school where she was a teacher. 

 

The last recording I made using compact cassettes was "Love Junkie" by SugarBox which was released on CD in 1997. The vocals, guitars and bass were recorded on compact cassette using a Tascam 238 8-track recorder and the drums and synths plus some additional backing vocals (via an Akai sampler) were were run "live" using a sync track. I think we were running 16 live and 6 tape channels at mix down. The final mix isn't quite what we wanted, but we'd run the cassette so many times doing the tracking and mixing that we wore it out, and what was released was the last decent mix we got before the tape would no longer play properly no matter how many times we cleaned the transport mechanism and wound the tape.