As some of you may already know, I'm going into the studio to record my band's first album, 'Fire,' and there's a lot of experimental stuff I wanna do on it 'cuz it fits conceptually. The finishing touches on the album are going to be sets of tape loops fixed into songs and used as segways between songs.
If you're unfamiliar, a tape loop is an analog kinda sample, typically about <1 to 2 seconds long, made by snipping a 6 inch piece of the tape in a cassette and scotch-taping it to itself, so it will repeat indefinitely in a cassette player. Typically when I make them, they never come out perfect and often they end up reversed and sped up or slowed down dramatically, to the point where the original source is hardly recognizable.
The thing is, a lot of the tapes I'm making are sourced from copyrighted materials. For instance, I have a very ambient loop from an old Clapton cassette I found. Idk what song it was or what album it was off of, but it sounded a lot like a live set. I made a loop of a guitar solo he played and I set it so it'd play backwards and maybe half speed, or somewhere inbetween normal and half speed. It doesn't even sound like a guitar, just a weird ambient goopy synth. So it's definitely not recognizable as a Clapton cassette.
Another one I clipped is from some kind of a self-help tape and it says "My self-esteem is growing daily!" This is practically the best one I've made since it literally isn't messed up at all and it's most obviously from the cassette I clipped it off of.
Are these tape loops safe to use on my band's album when it's recorded? I intend to sell the albums for about 5 bucks a pop when they're finished, but I don't wanna get sued for copyright infringement. Is the Clapton tape safe and the self-help one risky?
TIA.
