Rene Splinter The Albums VLOGumentary - "Transit Realities" Part two of the series about his released albums. Originally recorded in 1992 and 1993. In this episode, Rene shows how this album was created, and talks about its release.

Rene Splinter talks about the use of cassette tape's in the making of his album Almery. Take note of the sound quality at around 6:36 when he plays back from an Akai cassette deck. The quality of recorded audio from cassette is underrated as a medium. In 1988 the cassette was all most musicians had and yes it was good enough. Don't get me wrong, I record to digital on a daily basis but owning a quality cassette deck allows me the opportunity to add oxide warmth at a very low cost to the parts of a mix that would benefit from it. The deck that you choose matters they are not all built equal. Rene is using an Akai GX-ASX Deck. I feel that it sounds fairly good. The deck I recommend people find if they can is a Marantz PMD511 rack-mountable that includes discrete microphone inputs with input level adjustment, 15% pitch control, Memory point, Music search, and Dolby B/C/Hx pro.