1988 yearmix (cropped)

[JFSJordi]

FIRST SONG, PLEASE?????



[TOSHTON]

Man!...This is Just EPIC!!...Your Patience & Talent are Just Insane!!....

[JFSJordi]

First song, please?

[vinyljunkie76]

ok i am curious on how you did these. im guessing you did the standard 2 turntables a mixer and made the mix, but than edited out or added in clips from other tape. reason i ask is because i see and hear the same song with other clips over laid and the beats match. so how do you edit the tape? or did you do a left channel track and 2nd pass on the right channel and than just cut and paste the whole mix? i know it would have taken a long time to do this so accurately and the final mix is amazing.

[Meowbay]

@vinyljunkie76 We always used an in between master for this. So basically how it went was:

2, sometimes 3, turntables in the mixer recorded onto high-speed cassette-tape master (this wasn't your average cassette-deck, but a hacked deck running at 3 times the normal speed and with pitch-control, we were cassette-gurus back in the day, before we started using StudeRevoxes..). That master went through the mixer with processing (sometimes more added tracks etc.) and that signal is what you see cut.

[vinyljunkie76]

@Meowbay so some of the splices on the reel are last min added samples after the whole thing was done. i kinda figured it was done live to tape and than edits after. unlike todays computer edits that can be done before the final is made. but still it is like seeing the edits is better to see than just hear.

any chance you can post more of the edited mixes on here or also make flac for all the classic mixes? i got the 3 in flac, but the rest in ogg. thanks

[nelsonmandela11]

are you crazy??? this is a dutch grandmaster of mastermixes! he has a major, major mixingtable in his studio with hundreds of channels.. he is famous for al his yearmixes and colaborations with popstars..sorry...c'mon 2 turntables? be serious man..

[djjoep100]

i have all on 12" record

[mixinginthebox]

Love this mix.

[Meteotrance]

i love the stutter effect made by some blank tape it's just awesome XD !!!

[Mushywaffles]

Holy shit, this is nuts. It's from the 1980s but still so futuristic :D

[elio2488]

whats is the song 1:15?

[Disco5100]

@elio2488

Kylie Minoque-I should be so lucky

[scodan63]

did you work for hot tracks or ultimix?

[interceptor11000]

muy bueno exelente me encanto i me encanta ese tipo de tecnologia lastima ke ya no exista 5 stars

[RAYGproductions]

i love this...

[MsGeorgiosPanayiotou]

Where's 'Father Figure' by George Michael? Didn't hear it in this mix but you said so in the link in the description box : (

[Meowbay]

@MsGeorgiosPanayiotou It also clearly says: "showing you only 10 minutes"

[MsGeorgiosPanayiotou]

@Meowbay And you left George Michael out? LOL ; )

You dare... 

[henriquesousa7]

CAN I GET A COPY OF THIS??

[KatakalosTheodoros]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrAndreasvandenberg]

This is AMBACHTELIJK!!

[megamix1966]

SPEECHLESS!!!!!! LOVE IT ALL!! I'm Glad I was part of the 80's genre I'm 44 now.

[coolbluelights]

@megamix1966 I'm 30 now and i'm a die hard 80s fan! so glad I could be around to experience that amazing decade, even if I wasn't old enough to go to a club and dance to this :P

[MACKerMD2008]

props for the old school mixing skills!

[djdood]

Nice mix. Lots and lots of editing splices, especially all the stutter-edits on the Kylie track at the beginning. Oh, the days of razor blades and editing blocks ;)

[JSneaker]

OOH! I have the hundreds of CD albums, singles and HUNDREDS of 12" single and album vinyls of MANY of these artists!!! I can't believe at 3:30 you have Sandra, one of my faves! Nice mix!

[AiwaMail]

super

[ChayD]

Very nice work, I tip my hat to you , Sir :)

[KrankieV2]

that sounds pretty cool and it is neat to watch it play :)

[Indubitabil02]

I was born in that year, but i grew up hearing a lot of 80s music as a child. Great job

[coolbluelights]

OMG I cannot describe with words how much I love this!!! flawless splices.. :D:D:D:D Summer 1988 I was 7 going on 8, best times of my life!! the whole year rocked to this beat!

[dvmtm]

80's baby ^^ This mix is 3year older than me :o

[TheBestMastermixers]

also for every mix on your downloads....

Jsus this is the shit!

Perfect! True craftman's work

met plakband en wat tape... wow!

en dit in de jaren 80..... 99% haalt dit niet met up-to-date-software

TOP!

[Disco5100]

awesome mix.....and by the way,I am a tape recorder lover:D,I have 2 of them,not professional but good,if you want to see them,view my videos,thanks.

[HEXWHY]

you can hear the warmth of the tape saturation. Hours and hours of rocking the beat over the playback head before the razor hit;s it. True skill and artistry

[TECHTRAX]

Really man, this is awesome!!!

[themasterofmovies]

how on earth do you make these? and how much leader do you use?

[KojiRecords]

True audio art at its very best; who even works with reel tape anymore, let alone analog equipment? Digital allows newbies to actually record and mix in a space even in their bedrooms. This is why so much great analug equipment is turning up in thrift stores. At a Los Angeles thrift store I frequent I picked up a Tascan 38 8-track reel recorder for $199, the Tascam M-30 mixer for $99 and a Foxtex E2 2-track mastering reel recording for $99---an entire anolog studio for $300. Revox rules 4-ever!

[JODEEMIX]

Ca pete !!! alouette !!

RESPECT !!!

Thank u

[studio7manga]

Amazing mix, 99% I've never heard before. I've already started making samples of parts of it for my own devious purposes. Sexy R2R as well.

[Daniel22259]

whats song in 2:20?

[Meowbay]

You can find out via the tracklisting, check the link in the description. You probably mean "Burn It Up" by Beatmasters featuring P.P. Arnold, but it's mixed with something else..

[Output9]

Class

[VideyoJunkei]

Is this at 15 or 30 ips?!

[lfmssoundman]

I can tell it's 15ips

[zioguido]

@lfmssoundman I think it's 7,5 ips

[CORNWALLISGREAT]

you know revox will give all the new hifi equipment a good run for the money even tho the revox is over 30 years old now infact even beat it you would have to spend 100's to beat the sound and then it be hard.

[slickdick78]

awesome dude

[allshotgun]

Extra Sound Extra Edit

[lz2k7]

nice tremolo effects , did u achieve that by using leader tape?

[shaundolphin6837]

Nice mixing - Not heard some of these tracks for ages !!! TOP BANANA

[lz2k7]

would a Tascam 32 be a good choice?

[tonycals]

ok meobay.verygod this sound. i remenber my friends in the disco.congratuleition this brazil.

[vienna1979]

whats the song called @ 4:39 ?

[Meowbay]

Take It While It's Hot - Sweet Sensation, also see the description link at the right for the entire playlist..

[vienna1979]

thank you ^^

[Meowbay]

Stereo video:

/watch?v=xtCzapf12PM&fmt=18

[iabhornc]

I wonder what those pieces of tape on the magnetic tape are for? They seem to be creating some sort of reverb.

[roileonidas]

Ola sandra is speed

[TheodoreDaSilva]

I have just uploaded a video response of a mix created in a similar way. This mix was pieced together on a Teac 4 track Reel to Reel recorder, but the really crazy bits were done with an Akai So1 sampler and an Atari computer. These bits were then spliced into the tape.

[MichaelvanT]

1e plaat; Denise Lopez-Saying sorry....

[Meowbay]

eeh.. het eerste wat je hoort is Mercedes Boy - Pebbles (helemaal in key met Denise Lopez ;-)

[MichaelvanT]

Geweldig.... je hebt gelijk,hahaha je bent dus ook zo'n freak!

[MichaelvanT]

Heb trouwens beide 12"inches...

[TonyJay81]

Un grande. Questa si che è l'arte del mix e del remix!... Altro che pc :D

[discorecords]

holy crap great job! i've never done spice editing before. looks like it would take a LONG time, yeah? FAVOURITED.

[Meowbay]

OK, that does it ;-) I'm recording another mix of ours tomorrow during daylight, using a different camera.

Audio will be stereo on that one.

Thanks to all for the great comments!

I love you!

[lz2k7]

any people still editing on tape? .. what'd be a good tape recorder, something that i could possibly find on ebay ?

[guimbadriver]

good very good

[aquamarinedream]

is that dee-lite

[Meowbay]

No. See the link on the right of the video for the complete listing.

[thecobraman]

the studer revox verry good

i have 4 a77 and one b77 i love all

[CassetteMaster]

Just COOL!! Awesome tape deck, too!

[Soundz1]

The white tape is splicing tape I imagine.

[crypticreign]

I'm trying to understand how these analog mixes were made.

The DJ doing the year mix (or whatever mix or megamix of that time) would record from viynl to reel, than cut up the reel, and re-record onto the main reel and add in edits?

What is the white tape?

[Meowbay]

It's pretty similar to how the movie-theatre movies are (still) made. We (me and my cousin) used a different recording stage in between (to master the overlays, to do all the takes of records mixed together, with their speed slowly pitching up etc.), and from this recorded material we transferred to the final master (which is what you see). Sometimes you could of course break that scheme, but usually this was the way.

[Meowbay]

And of course the intermediate medium could be anything that records audio. We've used DAT-recorders, cassette-tape recorders, (the audio I/O of) VHS recorders, for the in-between storage. And in very rare occasions we transferred directly from vinyl to the master..

[homemixer]

He J.

It's really awesome to see this....hee I didn't know the revox has a pitch control??!!

greetz homemixer Silvere

[Meowbay]

Could be that only the MK-II has one. It's hidden under the protective cap, so normally you won't see it. I think it does + and - 10 percent, and has a switch for zero-pitch assurance. I'll film the workings of the B77 for you someday..

[wallshadow211]

Yap,i'm a proud owner of a b77 mk2 ,just love revox