How To Create Analog Tape Delay ADT and Phasing

In this demonstration, Steve Christie of Vintage Keys Studio demonstrates how to create real analog tape delay, ADT and phasing, using an Akai reel to reel tape recorder, a Melos Tape Echo Chamber and a DAW.  No plug-ins required!  The sounds you can hear in this video are more organic and other-worldly sounding than anything that you can achieve purely digitally, no matter how advanced the plugin or the computer system you are using.

These effects are easily achieved at Vintage Keys Studio for mixing, and we are able to apply the effects to any recordings either remotely, or in person. See our website for details and for more great effects, instruments and techniques : www.vintagekeysstudio.com.

Background: 

The effects demonstrated were first achieved in the 1960s in London recording studios. George Chkiantz invented tape phasing at Olympic Studios after being asked by George Martin for an effect called ADT on the Beatles' session for All You Need Is Love, in 1967.

Chkiantz had not heard of ADT (invented in 1966 by Ken Townsend at Abbey Road Studios), so he set about creating his own variation of the effect. This led to tape phasing which uses a pre-delayed, out of phase signal going in and out of sync with the source signal. 

Here these effects are recreated in a hybrid Analog/Digital studio using Logic Pro X, and a selection of tape recorders and analog equipment. 

Video by Louisa Revolta
Recorded and Edited at Vintage Keys Studio
'The Man Who Spoke His Mind' by Steve Christie's Wrong ℗ and © 1990 Steve Christie


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