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Title: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: Zoltan on April 14, 2025, 12:12:00 PM
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Things are getting extra crunchy. I'm not sure if it's the end of times, or if the New Kids on the Block (tape) is giving up.

Lots of bouncing. The highlight for me is the ending which blends a lot of crap into a cohesive (w)hole.
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: the physics teacher on April 14, 2025, 11:12:38 PM
Nice production Zoltan. I enjoyed the strange ending was that the simulaties of a James cassette? ;D
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: the physics teacher on April 14, 2025, 11:29:43 PM
James= jamed
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: Jean Pierre on April 14, 2025, 11:59:28 PM
ah yes, I loved the strange ending worthy of the Beatles in their Revolver/Sgt Pepper period.
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: Ted on April 15, 2025, 01:35:13 PM
I'm really curious about your recording process. When I recall recording on my Ross 4x4, I didn't have any effect send or return, so I don't think I could get the quality you are getting with your Yamaha. I'm hearing the reverb on your vocals that isn't stuck in the same panning position as the vocal itself. It sounds great.

Mr. Fancypants.

I didn't have reverb or the ability to mix in effects on the mixer, so I would plug the vocal mic cable directly into a delay pedal and record vocals with a little echo on them.
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: Zoltan on April 15, 2025, 03:18:09 PM
Pansyfants... Oh, there's option for TWO fx sends/returns!

I didn't really understand how they work so i just played with the faders randomly. I had the FX going though DAW that was running a reverb.

But there's three vocals. Two of which are "backing vocals" that are either bleeding everywhere, or i accidentally panned them here and there...

It was and is exciting.
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: StephenM on April 15, 2025, 06:57:41 PM
I warned you all a few years ago about Zoltan!  He gobbles us all up like a hungry big fish in a small pond.  The problem now is we are all undigested down in the fishes belly.
And guess what?  This was actually a rescue op from the UIuA... the universal unintelligence agencies... from somewhere out in space.

we are all actually good... just hold on... one day soon we will all be thrown up onto a wonderful island in the alternate pacific island called mad... a... gas.... car...
where everything is just as you imagine it to be...
just ride along..
Zoltan got it all covered... alien that he is.

this is not cassette... this is me being birthed after being in a casket for god only knows how long.

I thought a thousand times of covering this... now I am glad I did not attempt this... instead I realize what my thoughts of it did was rescue me... rescue us.
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: TPB on April 16, 2025, 05:56:53 AM
Yep scratch that one off the nice I like the way you took it
Tim
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: Oldrottenhead on April 16, 2025, 07:24:35 AM
you are a brave man in both song choice and method of recording. great recording and kudos for keeping it so clean despite the bouncing.
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: Johnbee on April 16, 2025, 12:17:38 PM
LMFAO!  Really!  You had me laughing so hard my guts hurt!!  You start on a serious groove and I was really diggin' it but then it just deteriorates.  So funny.  Hilarious.  You'd do Zappa proud.

 :) John B
Title: Re: Ain't No Mountain High (Marvin Gaye cover, C-Cassette)
Post by: BerryPatch on April 17, 2025, 08:30:53 PM
Killer cover Zoltan! I love the warmth coming from the tape recorder and the instruments all sound so tight and groovey. I love the ending as well, I'd love to be able to do weird stuff like that using analog gear...