Endless Analog’s Closed Loop Analogue Signal Processor (CLASP) has been introduced to open up new production techniques for engineers using analogue tape: namely, processing digitally-recorded audio to analogue tape and back to the DAW, using variable tape speeds within the same session.
Producer Dave Brainard and engineer Brian Kolb have applied CLASP to tracks for up-and-coming artist Ray Scott’s next record. Coming off their first number-one album and single for country artist Jerrod Niemann, the pair are working on a Pro Tools systems in separate control rooms at Mix Dream Studios. When overdubs are finished, they begin to run individual tracks, up to four at a time, to a vintage Studer A807 MkII ½-inch four-track deck via CLASP.
“The advantage here is that we can take a single track or group of tracks and listen to them individually as they go to tape from the Pro Tools environment,” Brainard explained. “We can process the bass guitar at 7.5 ips, greatly adding to the low-frequency effectiveness, and the kick drum at 15 or 30 ips, which lets it retain the transient that gives it its punch. We can also see how each track reacts to different kinds of analogue processing – tape speed, saturation, compression and so on – and treat it for maximum effectiveness.
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