well, that was a super satisfying deep dive. I was fully prepared to dial in the sound of each tape mode through trial and error, but turns out some smart and ambitious people already did the work of analyzing and documenting the frequency responses of each machine.
I fucking love tapes. listening to tapes, recording onto tapes, re-recording tapes over and over to wear them out, splicing tapes to make loops, buying used tape lots to find memories nearly lost in a dusty basement or storage unit.
I love the work of iterating, but I especially love when ideas start to take shape. I love making things that scratch that itch in a new way that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else. fifteen years of software development gave me the tools and mettle to persist here.