The other night I came up with a cool lo-fi recording technique. I'm not sure if anyone else has posted something like this before..

It involves using a tape loop as an EFFECT, rather than a drone loop. I've always thought it would be cool if I could get my recordings to sound as sketchy as a tape loop (without being limited to just a loop).

This is how to do it..

Plug your instrument/mic of choice through your tape deck as if it were a guitar pedal. The tape deck is then set to RECORD with a tape loop loaded onto it.

Your deck will need to have a SOURCE/TAPE monitor switch in order for this to work. SOURCE will be your EFFECT OFF setting and TAPE will be your EFFECT ON setting.

Depending on the speed of your deck, there will be a slight delay when outputting the TAPE signal onto your computer. But this is easy to fix afterwards. And each track you record into your mix this way will have the exact same length of delay. At 7-1/2 IPS, my delay was only a fraction of a second.

You could also simply run your entire mix through this effect to add a sketchy lo-fi sound. Much more lo-fi than a typical tape bounce.

Let us know if you've done something similar!

BUY MERCH: [ Ссылка ]
Use code "BUCK15" for 15% off all BMR merch!

SUBSCRIBE to see more videos like this!

CONNECT ON INSTAGRAM: [ Ссылка ]

свернуть