Hi everybody. I've been working with tape for a while now and I'm slowly learning to repair and mod them. After destroying some cheap cassettes tape recorder I'm starting to understand how it's working and how not to break 'em. I'm using cassette to record music on it and produce some very lofi very dirty music. I love the asperities of this medium. I recently started a project where I want to "DJ" some sped down ambient tape loops. I am personnaly modding the recorders and joined this forum to get some help (and maybe give some when I will be knowledgable enough)
Welcome to the forum! You should look up the member from a few years back, he made a giant mellotron with a bunch of Walkmans.
I can't remember if this was the guy, his was built like an organ, here's some cool stuff on Make's Website for a basic Mellotron. https://makezine.com/article/home/fun-games/walkotron/
In the early 1960s that was the only option. This web page includes videos showing how it was done. https://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/tapeloops/ The most famous piece of music (in the U.K.) made that way a video explaining how it was done Having been a fan of synthesizers since the 1970s and heard the massive impact they had on music in the 1980s I feel a bit sorry for today's musicians as it feels like everything has already been done. Imagine being one of only a dozen people to own a synthesizer
By complete coincidence, yesterday I found out that the "choir" in this track was done using twelve tape loops running half way across the studio.
