How It Was Recorded

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Telefunken Magnetophon C2100

Stereo cassette deck, 1974–1978. Analogue solid-state (transistor) hi-fi cassette recorder in a tabletop case with push-button controls.

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Records it appears on · 1

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    John Newman · Album, 2013

    • Drums · MicrophoneVerifiedOld Dictaphone recording throughout, placed near kick and snare and driven hard for crunch and saturation.Position: near the kick and snare

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Wavesfactory Cassette

tape

Recreates the saturation and wobble of cassette tape driven hard, which is how this machine was used; it is not a model of this unit.

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