As you’ve probably already seen, if you’ve been linked to any of my websites, I’ve been playing around a bit with the new improved version of Stem Splitter in Logic Pro 11.2. If you have stumbled upon this text by chance, I recommend that you read that article, if it’s not too much, of course.
On SoundCloud you will then find a handful of songs, some of which you may have heard before. For some songs, I present the original mixed directly to DAT from the Portastudio (a black and white image), and then the stem-split versions re-mixed and slightly doctored (color image). As for several of the songs, however, I have only posted the stem-split/doctored mixes.
As I mentioned in the article, I mostly only used three of the tracks on my Tascam 244 to record analog signal sources, i.e. vocals, guitar, harmonica and the like. The fourth track on the small cassette was used as a sync track. The signal on this controlled a Yamaha QX5, and that in turn controlled all the drum machines, synthesizers and the like. If I remember correctly, Rasande tempo has all the vocals, the guitar, and a bass on the cassette-machine. The brass was a preset (Obie Saws) from my MKS70, and both a Roland TR707 and a 727 (for percussion) were used.
Of course, this means that there are no multitrack tapes left available. The few cassettes I have saved from my Portastudio days only have analog sounds, i.e.: vocals, guitar and the like on three tracks. The fourth track only has a sync signal, and it sounds about as fun as the modems of old. Remember them?
On Så får det bli we have a slightly different arrangement. Two vocal overdubs, a solo guitar plus the backwards guitars are on tape. There is also a harmonica solo. Here the drums are taken from an Akai XR10, the basses are two different Oberheim synths, and the rest are different sounds from Roland MKS70 and MKS30. Everything was mixed via a simple Boss BR-16 mixer.
As a bonus you get the song Du får precis som du vill where almost only the drum machine (Roland TR-707) was external. Well, an exception was also the Yamaha FB-01 which played “saxophone”. The rest of the audio was on the cassette as tracks.
There you also have to try to accept that I just went totally overboard with compression, saturation, distortion, etc…
Yes, I wanted everything to be loud as hell. It was great fun to try this out!
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