Mixing HEAVY Psych/Stoner Rock on cassette // 8-track cassette recorder - Tascam 688

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Another mix walkthrough on my 8-track cassette recorder.
This time it's a fuzzy freak out. More recording details below:
Track 1 - Live Guitar S (Shure SM57)
Track 2 - Live Guitar W (Shure SM57)
Track 3 - N/A
Track 4 - Kick drum (AKG D112)
Track 5 - Bass (CAD Audio M179 - I don't remember the bass amp model)
Track 6 - Drum Overhead (MXL V67i)
Track 7 - Snare drum (Shure SM57)
Track 8 - Crazy guitar overdub (Shure SM57)

METHOD:

This was done YEARS ago and I originally found it hard to remember the details. I asked the other guitarist on this recording and he was able to fill me in a bit more. THEN, I found my notes from the original session, which is how I know what all the microphones we used were :).

I started by recording a drum machine pattern onto track 3 of the tape machine. The pattern varied in speed throughout the recording, just to keep it interesting, and gave us something to jam along to.

BASS:
The second part of the recording was the bass, which was played through an amp and recorded with a condenser microphone. I don't have the amp model in the notes, but it wouldn't have been a particularly special one.

GUITARS:
After that, my friend and I got together one night and jammed live over the top of the bass & drum machine. We both had guitars, amps and 60s/70s tape echo units. These amps were kept as far apart as possible for audio-separation purposes and both were mic'd up with a Shure SM57. After that, one of us must have overdubbed a really wah-drenched freak-out. I don't know who it was but it's a beautiful groovy mess.

DRUMS:
A friend of a friend knew a fantastic drummer, who was able to squeeze his drum kit into a tiny student room. I set up a single condenser mic as the overhead mic and then captured the kick and snare with a couple of dynamic mics. For some reason the overhead mic cut out for a large chunk of the recording, but it's also present for a large chunk lol. It was a long jam...

MIXING:
Simple, as shown in this video. What I'd quite like to do is to bounce this mix into the computer so I can do some high & low pass filtering (I don't own the right hardware to do this yet). This just separates the instruments a bit more. It cleans up the low end to allow the punchy things to punch more, and cleans up the high end to allow the sparkly things to sparkle.

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