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No computers or plug-ins at Linear Labs in Los Angeles. Modern music, like the Luke Cage soundtrack, is recorded on tape with vintage equipment for a high-fidelity sound.
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It’s going to be alright anyway!
I added sparkly stuff Smiling
Secret sparkly hehehe
We don’t all get that lucky but it’s going to be slick
Thank you it can be too clean at 192
Thank you cause we love, “The Process”
I still say the perfect format hasn’t been found yet
WOW
Yes Yes yes please analog yes real sounds real music real Instruments real voices real is real music Realism
I had Morden production, totally soulless
Lol @ “high-fidelity sound” .. even the best studio tape is comparable to, what, 12–14 bit?
Yes it sounds good, but don’t call this ‘high-fidelity”. The “warmth” that you hear is low-fidelity analog inconsistencies. And that’s of course great! but the whole point is that it’s not high-fidelity.
cool studio- I like the look too, kinda Vegas casino dealer meets Godfather?
music art at its best with this kind 0f gear
I dont know why but this video made me so happy. Thanks
this is crazy wow
Firstly I record my music onto a cassette tape. Then I re record the same track over the tape 5 more times lose fidelity. After this process I then record said track onto a reel to reel. After this I digitise the track, compress to an MP3 File. Then re record back to a cassette tape and repeat a further 5 times until I have a nice analog sound.
My man’s a purist. Would love to record there. Absolutely beautiful.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad of a Tribe Called Quest, just one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time who sonically changed the soundscape of the entire genre. Big salute.
The opening statement has got to be one of the most preposterous claims I’ve ever heard. What in the world could you possibly mean by that !!!
BRO. YOU MEAN “NON — LINEAR LABS “. THAT’S WHAT YOU MEAN.
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So tight. Folks disagree then they hatin. Go on men with the studio that resonates for music.
that’s my kind of guy! i remember seeing black dynamite and thinking: whoa somebody got the score right!!!
Some of the best albums were recorded analog. For me, analog just sounds better. It’s warmer, smoother and the clarity is far better.
This is what I call ‘recording the music’
2:01 the language he uses shows he knows, appreciates the history of this equipment
It’s true there’s something about hearing the playback of yourself on tape, very different than digital.
I started recording on 1/4,1/2, 1” tape but I’ve cut all my records on digital and I’ve been really wanting to do a full analog production lately. The limitations of analog bring out something special in the performances.
I’m so jealous of his ampex mm1200, that thing is sweet
As a commercial recording engineer since 1972 I’m glad the analog days are over. Nice place to visit but I wonder if I could live there anymore. I used all those old Ampex’s, Scully’s and MCI’s for decades. Even spent 5 years with the MM1200 like in this video. Mine had an Audio Kinetics locater that made it like the later MCI’s. Before that I had the MM-1000 16 track. Had Ampex AG440’s and Scully 280’s in two and four track configurations. The last analog console I owned was a 32 channel API Legacy loaded with 550l equalizers. Racks of UA limiters.
Today as a musician myself I dearly love my DAWs. Incredible editing capabilities, no wow and flutter, tape hiss, tape fringing, getting to the studio an hour early every day to clean and demagnetize the heads and run alignment tapes. Ya’ll can have all that you want. 😂 Give me a DAW and plugins.
All the new kids think these guys are living in the past and they’re not up with the times. I’m 21 and I fully agree with them. These are real musicians, professional producers. The movie industry’s the same, you’ll have experts like Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino all advocating for film over digital cameras. It’s so much better. It makes me sad where the music industry is right now, no pros anymore like the 20th century. I hope this doesn’t happen to movies too.
None of the background music sounds like tape . Maybe it is but I don’t hear any real drums
I would love to hear an electronic song that is made pure with analog hardware and eq/Master it with hardware gear. Music today has no soul anymore.
I’m also a recording artist/studio owner. I believe in this fully. We do the same thing. Music is not supposed to be perfect. It’s supposed to be a perfect moment in time. Keep it going guys.
Thanks for sharing this. The more musicians know about the magic of analog the more they will want to record that way. Digital recordings really do “clip the wings” of the music. 🙂
I got a Tascam portastudio 424 the other week man i love that thing
tchad Blake and tame impala mix itb with modern/digital recording equitment. It’s all up to the artist and the ears of the creators imo
I’m with analog all the way.…except when it comes to editing…then I transfer to DAWand back using the best analog sounding converters I can afford. Know that’s cheating and I try not to make mistakes when tracking, but I have not learned how to take a razor to tape for editing. Much easier in my DAW, and plug ins are getting increasingly better
This is par excellence! It’s so great to see analog recording studios coming up like yours. It stands the test of time.
Need my studio natural studio & the new studio technically✍️🎵🎧
The irony is that tape is non-linear whereas digital is (linear).
I’m gonna have to cut our next record here. Absolutely stunning. Everything is stunning.
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Nice
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I approve this message. I love this.
I use digital DAW but I run my stems (track recordings) through an analog 2 channel tube compressor into 2 track tape deck then send the tape signal back into my project. It adds warmth and air that you simply cannot get with pure digital setup or plug ins.
Maybe I can upgrade more when gear becomes more accessible to my budget. I’d love to have full analog studio one day.
100%, maintenance is a nightmare.