Guitar Amp vs Portastudio, which do you like? #musicproduction #guitar
Tape Decks are trendy right now, or are they here to stay?
#Guitar #Amp #Portastudio #musicproduction #guitar
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The portastudio sounds like a mosquito
I might have the coolest, most lukewarm take here, but I think they're both sick and contextual. The DI is more lofi imo. Through an amp and mic, especially with processing, it sounds great. Together sounds cool too. Do whatever you want
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On Street Fighting Man, Keith Richards used a little cassette tape recorder – which were by then widely available – and recorded acoustic guitar through the cheap little plastic mic tha came with them.
Due to the compression these devices applied to signal coming through the mic input – and likely by overdriving the input – Richards achived an interesting, unique-sounding distortion on the acoustic guitar.
(Rather looks like, but this is Not written by A.I.)
Definetly the amp.
Amp is always better.
Blend it.
Mkgee is not the first. It’s been done since consoles existed. It’s just that Mkgee happens to be trendy and aesthetically appealing from a commercial standpoint. It’s just 80’s/90’s soft rock with the tone of post grunge early 2000’s.
Have you tried the Reel Deal or Reel Dealuxe from Templo? Josh demo’d it like 2 years ago and you could see the wheels turning.
Does anyone know if any of the Mk.Gee songs were recorded to cassette and then dumped to DAw? I imagine that would make a difference in how the album tones turn out too
Definitely Delux reverb. Absolutely. Totally guitar amp
Amps sustain and have way more attractive harmonics. DI is great when you want something a little uglier with rawness.
Guitar amp! Sorry, i am biased!
You live in Bushwick, right, can I record a song at your studio, please?
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Everything is a guitar amp. Try it on anything with an input
Still have my old Tascam 4 track. You know this shit would sell for thousands if a renowned guitarist said that was the “secret” to his sound, but it’s largely bullshit. You can get a really nasty, shitty, DI distortion out of these things which sounds quite cool but it’s nothing you couldn’t recreate with some pedals, an amp and some imagination. Or even…dare I say it, a decent DAW!
Really depends on the song. The drive has to fit to song, its message and its soul.
Got one, gotta try – Thanks…❤❤❤
I like both, I’d record them together.
Run the portastudio through the amp lol
Would you do a video on SP 404 guitar amp?
Richie Blackmore used to use a reel-to-reel as a preamp in his early 70s live setup.
Both sound like ass
Tape for me ????????
Very different sounds. Similar to hard vs soft clipping in od pedals. I still love the sound of tubes vs solid state
The fender tone is going to be more suitable and versatile to a wider variety of mixes. The tape deck sounds cool, but is seriously like a "2 tracks off of the album" kinda sound. Honestly with any semi competent audio engineer, they should be able to mix the fender tone to sound very similar to the tape deck with post processing. Not knocking the tape deck, just buying case use specific gear is maybe a little out of budget for me personally.
The amp, by far.
that tape deck sounds like horseshit buddy ????
Tube amp all day…
The tascam sounds horrible lol
I really hope Mk.Gee’s next record has more rock songs with solos and cool riffs. I loved Two Star and the Dream Police and I hope it doesn’t end up being a fluke awesome record. I’m not so big on his earlier stuff except “absolutely” by Dijon.
Were you on that show on discovery channel? something about Alaska
They've been doing this since Christ was in diapers.
"Why you no love me" is a perfect hilarious title
woah, this is cool. Just got the Portastudio 424mkii for $5 thnx,
I run my Tele direct with a reverb on send 1 and a modulation into a delay on send 2 ..
very clean and if you want some dirt , try a dirt pedal of choice . I like the preamps of the Tascam but there’s a different sweet spot for every different instrument.
If it goes in the mix then whatever, but by itself, I prefer amp.
My first “amp” was my dad’s old Sony reel-to-reel tape player, because it had a guitar cord sized input. The distortion sound it made was creamy smooth and sounded fantastic, until I blew it up. Today I’d try to make a pedal out of it but back in the 80’s nobody would think to do that
They’re both nice
love the way thatt tape bites
Amp any day
"If Keith Richards does it, you probably shouldn't." – My mother.
Oh thats sweet !! How do you hear back ??? The direct signal
The tascam sounds like an organ
Stick a tubescreamer in front to further drive and tighten up the tone.
Portastudios are great for practice. I tried to get into amp sims, but it's so hard to play other audio in the background to play along to. I have a Bluetooth adapter plugged into my 424 along with my stereo bass rig, I can play any audio on any device I'd like, mix it, and jam to it.