What is it about analogue tape that is so fascinating? Wait… you probably don’t find it fascinating. Maybe it’s just me.
I was doing a bit of tracking tonight – test vocals through the old Roland Space Echo and it was just sounding amazing. Its a bit warbly, to tell you the truth – the tape probably needs changed but I’m just too chicken to attempt that. I recall vague efforts as a kid to wind chewed-up reels of C90 cassettes back on to their little reels, and the thought of messing up the Space Echo is too much.
it seems so primitive, but I love the idea that when you record a sound on tape, it MOVES. It goes round with the tape until it comes back to the play head. Its like the sound has a place in the world, it’s really there. You could stop the tape and point to the place where the sound is. There’s something about that I love.
Anyway, the test was in preparation for an idea I have for some female backing vocals in Jumping Ship. I was delighted to get a text from Gabi Fröden aka. Foreign Slippers to say that she loved the track and was happy to sing on it. Joy in the highest.