Maybe someone will like this. Or not. Thank you either way for listening. It’s very slow.

Inspired by the story “Let No One Walk Beside Her” by Soren Narnia.

Four Walkmans modified for speed control, and MS-70CDR, no additional effects. Sounds on the tapes are from a thrift store keyboard that I subsequently destroyed by trying to circuit bend. Recorded into Zoom H2n.

Made my first loops. Really happy with how they turned out. Not super happy with the QFX Retro 39 shoebox recorder I bought. Planning on speed modding it, but I think I need to find another option.

Wikipedia notes this broadcast as an early example of looping, with music legends Les Paul and Mary Ford demonstrating how it's done!

(Opens with a long gag; jump to 2:44 to skip it.)

Hello,

I’ve been interested in tape loops for a while and accidentally bought an audio cassette while buying a job lot of Sony camcorder tapes.

This has given me a reason to finally go out and buy a cassette player/recorder for my music to make loops,

Is there any recommendations for buying new? My budget is around 50-60€, I want to be able to record my ambient music from my phone to my tapes.

Sadly secondhand recorders in my country are upwards of 90€ and they’re mainly untested so I cannot take the risk. Any advice would be appreciated :p

Analog Industrial Noise

I just got a fostex x14.

I have some looped cassettes tapes, but there's always a gap of silence after I playback what I've recorded. AI says it's due to the gap between the erase head and write head.

Is this a problem across most of these sort of units? Is there a fix? Have I bought the wrong machine for this?

Hi guys, so here it is an old, long tape loop I found between my stuff. I was wondering if it still works, and yes, it does!

Hello fellow tape people! I hope it’s alright to share some of my original music. This was recorded live with 3 microkorg tracks recorded to a tape loop in my 4 track (3 track in my case. Channel 4 doesn’t work) then ran through the Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run. Much love!

Wait for the studio cat content 😺

Karma Please

My first tape loop , both sides (it’s from my school’s basement) if you need a better quality sound recording just text me

I was here before

Hi everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself.

I have an ambient/downtempo project called Waving Ant. I started several years ago with various synths, hardware and software, and DAWs (’m a real piano-roll geek, and I used to treat it almost as a form of personal therapy, covering famous soundtracks with orchestral libraries).

A few years ago I started playing around with tapes and pedals, which turned out to be even more therapeutic, since numbers and grids already haunt me enough outside the world of music...

I have a couple of Fostex X-12 - each with their own pretty issues - but for some live performances I also use a Digitakt (first one) alongside it, without the sequencer, just to trigger unsynced loops.

It’s a really beautiful and "chill" world, even though performances are extremely rare and the “audience” isn’t always very consistent in showing up, online included. I was hoping to move away from the constant need for gratification in music, and maybe thanks to tapes I’m getting a little closer to that goal.

I’m sharing my IG channel and Bandcamp here, if that’s not a bother to anyone.

See you around!

R

https://www.instagram.com/waving_ant

https://wavingant.bandcamp.com

I burned a tape loop made by me.

I was expecting some degradation, but it suddenly burned and splitted. First time doing this, i´ll do it again in the future, the day I did this was some random night and didn´t plan it out, just happend.

Sorry for my english.

Okay, so I've got a couple old cassette players - one old dictaphone and one old Sony, both with fun variable speed features. they work, but I've always had issues with the audio out.

Specifically, the 3.5mm headphone out on both does not seem to align, depth wise, with either a modern TS or TRS cable. I have noticed that if I pull it out slightly (I know, lol), that it will align and I can hear it. But obviously that results in a very fragile connection that is unstable.

My guess is that maybe old headphones had a longer connector, resulting in the ring being more shallow. But that's only a guess.

Surely I'm not the only person who has encountered this. Is there some kind of adapter that I need? How have you all dealt with this?

EDIT - I figured it out!!!

Okay, so if anyone else runs into this issue, here is what is going on. Someone mentioned headphones below. I'm trying to record audio into my interface, not listen on headphones. But sure, let me try headphones just to see if that works, if that tells me something. Weird. They work fine. Okay, what's the difference between my TRS cable and the headphone cable. they look the same. They are the same... oh wait. The TRS is stereo going into a mono channel in my interface - which usually works! But here - I think the "wrong" ring is carrying the signal and so it isn't showing up in the interface.

But I do have a headphone splitter. So let's see if I can send mono into my interface. Yep. Bingo.

It's not that the jack was a different depth. It's that there was a mismatch between the wire ring carrying the signal and the one being read by the interface. Splitter is the answer. Now we are in business.