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Hey!

I messed around with my tape recorder, and I found that when blasting the inputs, the fuzz that comes out is really tasty. I made a video of it, and thought I'd share it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8XOhch ... e=youtu.be

So, does this sound like the mid-fi demo tape fuzz? In that case I'm definitely getting one.

If you run it direct you'll get pretty much the same thing. Either through an amp won't have quite as wide a frequency range.

But the same flavor of rasp for sure.

Yep! It does.

I play through an 80's panasonic record/tape console sometimes for those tones. It has a useful 5 or so band eq as well.

Oh, I can imagine an EQ would be a very nice addition to using a tape recorder as distortion. Tomorrow I'll try different boosts and distortion for different results. And also I'll definitely try to get my hands on a demo tape fuzz

I use an old Bell and Howell ex-elementary school tape deck for these sounds sometimes. Unending trashy sustain. It's not applicable in every situation, but when it works it works great.

VCR or GTFO...

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqUObMbmc7k[/youtube]

The first part of this demo is Medicine... Brad Laner used to play through a VCR...

sonidero wrote:VCR or GTFO...

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqUObMbmc7k[/youtube]

The first part of this demo is Medicine... Brad Laner used to play through a VCR...

Brad played through a Yamaha cassette four track.

(Back in the day, some home demo folk would use "hi-fi" variety VCRs running at highest speed as the mixdown/master deck since you could get better fidelity than a cassete deck and it was cheaper than a reel to reel. I don't recall people overdriving them, but who knows?)

yeah, I've never heard of anybody using a vcr for the overdriven tones, only the mastering like Gone Fission mentioned.

I swear he had one in his rack when I saw the Buried Life tour... He's real nice and a member so maybe I'll just ask... Also I was on a lot of mescaline so maybe it was a 4 track...