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Mastering to Tape. Why?
      28/02/12 06:33 AM
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For me, the advantages of tape (for our time) are about the pleasing colour (distortions) and the compression that is (for me) still the best way to get individual parts to sit in a mix naturally and seemlessly. That is, each individual track is treated with saturation so that the frequencies within each instrumental part become 'rounded' (compressed), and with (musically) pleasing distortions. Isn't that why everything sits well and sounds homogenised?

But, I'm wondering what the advantage is to mastering to tape (I assume a bounced final mix) which I've heard people do to "add the effects of tape".

I can't see how this can be a good idea. I can only imagine mastering to tape would make the recording sound murkier. I prefer only to use tape once anyway. For backup, I usually record straight to tape and digitally at the same time (despite the inevitable stretch shifting with tape).

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. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? SafeandSound Mastering   27/10/12 02:11 PM
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. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? Flow Mastering   05/03/12 11:38 AM
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. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? Anonymous   29/02/12 07:04 PM
. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? Jack Ruston   29/02/12 09:17 AM
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. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? johnny h   28/02/12 07:11 PM
. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? Scramble   28/02/12 07:44 PM
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. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? ken long   29/02/12 12:15 AM
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. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? johnny h   29/02/12 10:14 AM
. * Re: Mastering to Tape. Why? Kevin Nolan   05/03/12 04:25 PM
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