I know this might be a silly question but I'm kinda confused.
How can I make my track sound like it was recorded on a tape recorder from the 80's? With that lo-fi cold and analog vibe, crackling noises, recorded and mastered on poor equipment at home, etc?
I'm working on a coldwave/post-punk jangle song, and we want it to sound like those 80's indie jangle-pop bedroom recordings on tape like On a Friday, The Bats, The Field Mice, Autumn, Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, etc.
I recorded some instruments on my headset mic to make they sound "cheap" and others I needed to use VST's (like with synth strings), but it's not sounding exactly how we wanted. We asked some people what we could do and they told us to use a saturator and we should be fine. We downloaded BPB Saturator and applied but still it doesn't sound like an old track.
We already trying putting some white noise background along with the saturator and little reverb but it simply doesn't sound like that lo-fi cassette tape recordings from the 80's.
How can we properly emulate this sound? Which effects and VST's we can and need to download so it sounds exactly like it came from a home cassette tape from the 80's?
*Ps: Idk if it helps, but I have here at home a Panasonic RQ-L11 Mini Cassette Recorder, it has a microphone built in but idk if we could use it for anything
I am updating my Jangle Pop Spotify playlist and I am looking for submissions and suggestions.
The list has jangle pop and rock from the 60s through today. Most of the newest stuff is from smaller I've found online. Reply to this post or message me with your songs.
Follow the list: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VDUHrJzONd8GIEpVAIwoo
Hello everyone,
A while back, I stumbled upon a completely unknown track titled [Crashing Out] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCq64K830Q) by a group named Rotation. It was taken from an obscure '90s British compilation series titled Snakebite City, specifically from the sixth issue. It's a nice little track, featuring arpeggio driven guitar melodies and the like; the kind of stuff that I love to find.
However, there is absolutely no information available for this group. Nothing on Discogs, last.fm, Bandcamp or the like. So instead, I had to go seek out from other sources. I got in contact with the main organizer behind Snakebite City, Paul Talling, who told me about how he would discover pub bands from way back when to then feature them for hopeful success. While asking him about this song, he said that he remembered the track, but never got to know or meet the band. Long story short, this was due to the fact that a separate label funded Snakebite City 6 for him, which lead to several outside PR agents to show the Paul their own finds. That was how Rotation got onto the mix, but he doesn't remember the name of the dude who showed him Rotation or anything like that. Although Paul never mentioned that he lost their demo tape, he didn't bring it up like he knew where it was. As far as I know, this song may be the only legacy for Rotation.
In the end, all I know is that they're British and have a demo tape somewhere out there. Other than that, nothing much. But hey, a stranger reading this may have that tape, waiting to be unleashed. If anyone has any questions/updates, let me know.
Hi everyone!
I hope this kind of post is allowed here. I'm doing a little project where I go to different subreddits of music genres and I ask the members what the best album of that genre is. After this, I listen to the album that got the most upvotes after 24 hours and write my thoughts about it (I will write this as a comment under this one, so if you want to read it, make sure to check back in 2-3 days. This won't be a professional review btw. I don't know anything about music theory so it's just gonna be the thoughts of a random guy). The list I'm following is Wikipedia's list of the most popular music genres in a randomized order. I'm planning to listen to one album per day and this time the genre is Jangle Pop. So please recommend me an album in the comments. It could be the best one in your opinion, your personal favourite, or the album that best represents this genre according to you, but please, only submit one album. If you submit more than one in your comment, it won't count (If you really want to submit more, do it in separate comments). LPs are preferred, but EPs and mixtapes are also acceptable, even compilations and live albums if they're not too long. I don't know anything about this genre so I'm going in blind.
This is the 232nd day of me doing this. If you want to see what the previous days were, check out my post history.
Thanks to anyone who recommends an album.
TL;DR: I listen to a new genre every day, so recommend me one album and I'll listen to the most upvoted one and write my thoughts about it later.
I made a little album if anyone can gimme some criticism, like "don't use a computer mic for a whole 30-minute album" that would be greatly appreciated, Idk if this is a good album or something but check it out if ya want, very bedroom-punk and jangle poppy if that gives you any idea of what you're getting into, skip the first two songs just listen to the last one if you want please I'm begging I'm so desperate I want this so bad please, please
Jangle pop is a sub-genre of pop music that has come in an out of style since the mid-60s. Its origin is credited to either the Everly Brothers or the Beatles but it was the Byrds who defined it. It is their cover of “Mr Tambourine Man” which gives the genre its name.
I discovered it in the mid-80s when I first heard REM’s Murmur. This led me to listening to Let’s Active, Game Theory, and 10,000 Maniacs. This led me to go back and look at the 60s origins of these bands. It also made me realize how the 80s bands took the genre to a new level of complexity. Most of the 80s bands had a connection with Mitch Easter of Let’s Active as he was a producer who lent his sound to the bands he worked with such as REM.
For a while it seemed to be mostly a girl band thing with the Bangles, Indigo Girls (who had more of a folk sound) and The Lucksmiths.
Since the 90s, I haven’t heard a band which sounds distinctly jangle. The Decemberists have a few songs which borrow from the sound.
Though it started with the Beatles, this genre never went through a major resurgence. Instead it was associated with Indie bands and music nerds (like myself).
I was just listening to beabadoobee - Last Day On Earth and it gave a me a super nostalgic feel.
I'm trying to find music that has the vibe of these things:
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90s/2000s teen movie
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There she goes by the LAs
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songs that feel like the movie notting hill (i'll also accept anything that has a meg-ryan-fall feeling)
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gilmore girls esque
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coming-of-age montage where the 2 opposites-attract characters are having fun before it all goes wrong
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anything by The Sundays
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A song that feels like wandering around a sunday market in london in september but it's also the 1990s
Do you get me? If there's another sub that suits this kind of request let me know!
I'm probably not being very precise with the genre label, so here are some examples of what I'm looking for. They're either from the 90's or they're 90's pastiche:
Here's Where the Story Ends by The Sundays
