Unidentified Tape machine (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 6

• Gangsta's Paradise

  Coolio featuring L.V. · Gangsta's Paradise, 1995

  • Overall recording medium · Input chainVerifiedThe producer says the record was made on 2-inch analog tape; no machine or format details are given.
• Millennium

  Robbie Williams · I've Been Expecting You, 1998

  • Programming and tracking · Input chainVerifiedThe multitrack recorder was a 48-track analogue machine; the session came close to filling it.
• A Bar Song (Tipsy)

  Shaboozey · Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going, 2024

  • Handclaps · Mix effectsVerifiedRaul Lopez ran all the handclaps through a tape machine at his studio and back into Pro Tools during the mix.
• Living for the City

  Stevie Wonder · Innervisions, 1973

  • Lead and backing vocals · Input chainVerifiedTape speed was varied when the background vocals were added, so that the backing voices did not sound like Wonder himself.
• Time Has Come Today

  The Chambers Brothers · The Time Has Come, 1967

  • Psychedelic middle-section effects · Mix effectsVerifiedA second tape machine ran with a slight delay, fed from the mic signal; tape speed set the delay time and feeding it back produced multiple repeats.
• Crimson and Clover

  Tommy James and the Shondells · Crimson & Clover, 1968

  • Tape delay on the tracks · Input chainVerifiedStaple fed the recording machine back on itself, returning the play head to a mixer and then to the record head, to create a tape delay on each track with the amount controlled on a separate mixer per track.

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