tape hisssssssssssss

i was experimenting with some tape hiss to fill the black holes in my crystal clean digital recordings.
if you want some hiss - you can download it here: http://www.freesound.org/people/BoilingSand/sounds/49005/

there's something very attractive about magnetic tape - no pun intended

i've done a little experiment. i decided that - hey, before i'm going to master this sucker i'm going to record the mix-down to a normal analogue tape cassette (compact cassette). then once it's on tape i'm going to record it back into logic with a little analogue hardware compression, a samson s-com 4 (-2db threshold). then layer it under the digital recording so that you can just hear it but not so much that it change the mix-bus compression... man do i like the effect!!!! it's just - and i hate it when people say it - warmer sounding. maybe it's all in the mind but there's something cool and funky about the result. try it...

here's a cool read if you're a history fan like me.