Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I wanted to make some videos about recording to tape and the first port-of-call is multitrack cassette recording. I found a (kind-of-working) Sansui WS-X1 and it seemed an interesting option for the video as there's not a lot of videos about it.
Cassette recording was the only option available to me when I started and I used to borrow the school 4-track over weekends. As soon as I could get a computer and a DAW, I left it behind and haven't touched it since probably 2000. Funnily enough, the only cassette I had lying around was one with my old A-level compositions on it.
It was a lot of fun going back to it with a fresh vantage point and it felt strangely familiar, despite the decades in between.
Music, sample packs, Q&As and general support:
patreon.com/AlexBallMusic
0:00 Intro
0:37 Audio Processor
2:35 Multitrack Cassette Recording
5:41 Tape Speed Processing
8:30 Use it as an instrument
11:35 Summary and Sample Pack
13:01 Patreon Thanks
I wanted to make some videos about recording to tape and the first port-of-call is multitrack cassette recording. I found a (kind-of-working) Sansui WS-X1 and it seemed an interesting option for the video as there's not a lot of videos about it.
Cassette recording was the only option available to me when I started and I used to borrow the school 4-track over weekends. As soon as I could get a computer and a DAW, I left it behind and haven't touched it since probably 2000. Funnily enough, the only cassette I had lying around was one with my old A-level compositions on it.
It was a lot of fun going back to it with a fresh vantage point and it felt strangely familiar, despite the decades in between.
Music, sample packs, Q&As and general support:
patreon.com/AlexBallMusic
0:00 Intro
0:37 Audio Processor
2:35 Multitrack Cassette Recording
5:41 Tape Speed Processing
8:30 Use it as an instrument
11:35 Summary and Sample Pack
13:01 Patreon Thanks
