Tascam Preamps vs Emulation Pedal #guitar #musicproduction #mkgee
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Originally posted by UC6CxayMClLfjk9Og3hEw-lA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzuodl_JUiM
I feel like every time this happens the original is always slightly quieter like there a slight LPF on it but has the special sauce and the pedal while nailing the sound is often a bit louder, but also flatter and more sterile. (Sometimes this flips and as far as sonic characteristics go but where if the OG gear is more flatter and louder the new clone will be subdued and a fatter/blanketed but still missing that sauce).
Pretty damn close for the pedal though.
Love people making cheap good gear to crazy expensive good gear ????
20 years ago I was in a tough spot I didn't have an amplifier couldn't even afford a zoom 505 I only had a guitar and cables I did however have two old 80s style receivers a Pioneer and a Kenwood I'd input into one one and cranked it and then out of the headphone jack into the auxiliary of the other one to get distortion I was so proud of myself still am and it sounded great❤❤❤ Ingenuity is so rewarding????
Bought mine 414 mk1 for 120€ this year. It had problem with channel 1 not going to tape. The problem was a small chunk of wood in routing switch. It worked like a charm. Then it accidentally from table and became microphonic. FML…
What I'm hearing is that I should hold on to the Tascam Mk II that I got back in 2004
Load of hype. May be these folk who have the tascam units want to sell them.
that tone is crap. it sounds like my audient id4 with the gain cranked
a feature on what used to be a $50 multi-track studio mixer and tape recorder can now be found on a $250 emulator because nobody fucking listened when they said "buying the toys won't make you a better guitarist"
I've known this since I was 12 ????it's a ???? tone !
Lucky for me I have a 424 mkII and a 488 mkII. Bought them in the late 2000s because they could do things my crappy computer and Edirol 2i2o couldn't do.
I've definitely used the Tascam for distortion, but only while recording onto its own tape.
Man. I sure need this to make my guitar sounds like Guitar Rig 1.
Years ago I read about a band called Sportsguitar who would run their guitars through old stereos or tape recorders through the mic input using a 3.5mm adaptor and holding down record and play without a tape in the cassette player. You can get some interesting sounds through different gear this way too like when I had a Casio keyboard that had a "voice changer" you could use to change the guitar into weird sounds whilst also upping the volume to make it distorted.
People been snobbing solid-state distortion for ever, then they use pedals that are actually solid-state distortion, and now they want this solid-state distortion that doesn't even come from a guitar pedal. And they don't know that John Fogerty and BB King played solid-state. Guitar bros are cooked. Go play some of the latest mini guitar heads, they sound fantastic! And I'm a tube guy, but now we can realize it's just two different flavours. And the real feel of the tube amp mojo is only in the room, not in the recording. Only the digital is an actually different beast in a negative way about feel and dynamics, although very practical.
Is that basils kite by Cap’n jazz you are playing there?
A few years ago, I had a friend stay at my place.
He’s kind of a local legend in our rock scene. So, I’m always a bit star struck when he hangs out.
I showed him my home studio, and he commented on my tascam interface.
He told me how somebody he knew (another fairly big name, if I’m remembering right) loves their preamps.
I was pretty confused.
This made a lot of things click.
Thank you
Funny thing is, I have a Tascam audio interface, and it's alright, but I never would've thought their preamps are anything special. Replacing them with an SSL12 soon.
To be fair, old Tascam mixers and tape machines probably used different pres than newer stuff.
What camera are you using?
The pedal head very similar distortion, but it was clearer and more detailed
Sounds like crap.
Tascam "4 series" hasn't been cheap in a long time
I wish people would stop collecting gear like Pokémon
They/you got so close it honestly sounds identical. But it's got a tone like when you run a distortion pedal into a hi-Z input. It could sound cool in a parallel FX chain where it's not the dominant distortion tone. Idk what the real appeal is tbh… Do hipsters like shitty guitar sounds..?
Thr portastudio is a little fuller snd warmer but other than that sounds spot on
The real thing sounded better. Annoys me to say it.
JHS nailed it. Still sounds like crap, though. ????????♂️
I hear a difference in the bass freq.
And I have rarely heard a more shot tone in my life
Sounds like a regular crappy fuzz tone.
That sounds nothing like the Tascam.
But to be fair it sounds excellent.
Maybe it has something to do with the EQ but the Tascam had much less top end and sounded looser on the mids. I don't see how the pedal is accurate though. They both sound good. And I'm surprised at how good the Tascam sounds considering it's not meant to do that.
You can achieve the exact same damn thing with nearly any small mixer.
Naah even before Corana the cassette Portastudios were already quite expensive. Definetly not $50. But I've seen several defect units roaming around for sale some years ago, so maybe some of those were priced at maximum around that price? But definetly not for a full functional one. Else I'd bought one of the "cheaper" ones years ago.
Hopefully nobody's gonna pay $600 for one ????
And good job making the pedal sound that close. Thank you for that ????
I lived this technology in the '80s and '90s. It sucked then, too.
thats a lot of money for a defective metal zone
Pepperoni farms here
I got my 4-track (more like 3 since ch. 3 was weak) for $60 when digital had taken over and these were the budget option. Tapes were cheap at Walgreens and track 3 is still weak after all these years. I never considered this a "sound" – definitely plugged directly into the bar's soundsystem board live and eked it out, hardly a complaint.
You don't need the expensive stuff. Use your Squier, Firefly, whatever – get motivated and do your best.
Sounds exactly like the Broadcast pedal, save yourself some cash
Stompbox sounded better imo (with headphones); edit: on second listen, the Tascam sounded a bit warmer, fatter and darker, and the pedal had a bit more airy-ness and floof.
Vanilla as always
an xlr? is that peddle also a di?
Plot twist: this guys just tryna sell his tascam
I'm gonna need some examples of songs that use this sound cause it sounds like dog water.
Damn that guitar sounded so good eith the crazy
I grew up with this tech and we all thought it sounded terrible. You could just build a cheap fuzz circuit stomp-box, get it wrong, and get this sound.
it's funny, like 10-15 years ago, no one would want this sound, because it sounded bad lol
so funny i used those recorders for years i have the big dog the 644 midistudio i think it was called it was 8 track to cassette tape with 8 xlr input maye more it was like 3200 bucks when it came out they were great for making demos but let be real the distortion sounded terrible and im into noise bands like pussy galore and john spencer
They’ve been expensive
Lo fi is lo fi for a reason. At that point plug in direct to your interface and crank your focus rite preamp lol it’s the same goddamn thing
I’ve had this sitting idle for 27 years. Time to set it back up.