Recording on Track on a 4-Track Tape Recorder: Part 3

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Part of the video series: 4-Track Reel to Reel Home Recording

Summary: Learn how to record on track 3 of an analog reel to reel 4 track tape recorder to record songs in this music instructional video.

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Recording on Track on a 4-Track Tape Recorder: Part 3

On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Kurt at KGB Studios. Now, we're at different instrumentation now. We've got the guitar tracks laid, the rhythm guitar. We need a little bit of a bass. So we're going to put a little bass in here right now. Let's do it. Okay, now we've got two tracks laid already. Two of them! We've got stereo here on the first two tracks. Left and right have got some information on it. It's called first generation audio. Now, we're going to move to the third track. So, obviously, we need to synchronize these two, so we'll kick those two up and these two will stay down. And, of course, we've got these two tracks done, so now we're in track number three. So we push that ready. And, of course, as you can see, this is light and this is dark. So we've got to turn that on. And that goes on now and now we've got those tracks and we're going to monitor these guys so we can make sure that we've got a good track in track three. And, of course, then we're going to need to make sure that we move our little microphone piece for our bass track over to here in track number three. And then, we need audio for track number three, which we've got set now. So, at this point, we should be ready to actually roll tape. But keep in mind; up here we've got to roll the tape back. So we'll roll the tape back now and then we'll play along with it a couple of times so that's what we're going to do as we speak. And then we'll get set and get ready for the next piece where we actually lay track number three. Alright, that's great.

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