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What is the sound difference between different tape formats?

Years ago I was fortunate enough to record a few songs using a professional reel-to-reel machine. It was an Otari MTR-90 2 inch 24 track. I have since used high quality converters from RME, Lynx, and Apogee. Although, they were all extremely adequate "especially the Lynx", they never seemed to give me the same realistic top-end or BIG sound that the Otari recorder did.

Decisions, Decisions... which takes to keep

I got to work with a great musician friend of mine yesterday, Tom Work, a regional veteran, came in to record a Rick 12 track for one of the songs on this project.
Tom is a consummate pro, and we did four separate passes all the way through this song, where he slightly varied the performance on each take - voicings, tonal alterations using different pickups, phrasing.

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