Hahh, great! I kind of asked since I could “hear” all of that in your tracks and wondered if correct at all : )
So, “wow”, yes that’s quite a setup.
I have an old mult-track Cassette set up - I really should experiment with; it’s used so little and have a small “carton” (was it #20 in a box?) of high fidelity gold major brand, still sealed. I remember when folks were tossing them in the trash or offering them if you paid shipping but had to say - what used for : ) since - could not imagine them being used!
I’ll have to write down my signal chain too one day - though not to far from yours, ± barring the Tape, no where a nice or organized - I use the pile system : )
My first year in college involved access to “state of the art” 16 track, Tape and etc.; but that was a long time ago.
And wow, DAT - hahhh… my first job out of high school was managing a Sony sponsored, “Stereo Store” hahhh… - tltr for here, different conversation… but, have not heard of that in a while. I really took stuff like that for granted too, then, - even Reel - to - Reel equipment. I loved the Revox recorders, the staple standard at any Radio station, with “Cart Cassettes” for the promos hahhh… man - it would be fun to be an old time DJ “today” with all the old Tech and having to Cue up LP’s. I, somewhere have an “air check” tape (just the “job”, cut out all the music and PSA’s, Promo’s condensed “check” to minutes - kind of an audio resume - you could do it, or not and showed that). There’d be no way to play it : ) as is, hahhh… omg.
Anyway, thanks for sharing!
- This makes me think of “Jack White” in one of his videos, where he put’s his guitar on the floor and stomps on it and says to his younger self (some kid actor) - pick a fight with it (guitar) and play the hardest to play, nastiest ?, guitar you can find : ) - I agree… and experiment, or used to, not lately - quite a bit and with others at that time. I’m glad there is an “Experimental” genre one can list under, or even “Lo-fi” pending where one is.
I’ve seen, read folks evaluating what someone “knows” - based upon their “radio ready” tracks…, hahhh… - boy are they wrong : )
I forgot which album it was, but Eric Clapton was living at a studio on some beach somewhere and would be out, and come back and in that moment, alone record first pass one take even ?, and that stuff is minimal if even then dubbed - and that’s the album, as-is, demo’s. Tom Wait’s “early years” album I think is the title, are all “demo” tracks - and mostly the only stuff I like of his, so to speak. There’s a few, that one would be surprised by the “engineering”, sound, but - they don’t “gas” : ) hahhh. I could go on.
Ahh, but I go on to much.
Anyway - again, thanks for sharing all of that; I know it takes some effort to post all of that!
