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Post by mobeach on Nov 21, 2013 19:01:26 GMT -6
Either professionally or as a hobbyist? A friend had a Fostex X15 we started on in 1985 then I got the Yamaha MT3X probably in 87, then the MT8X a couple years later. I still have both of them and they still work!  |
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Post by Johnkenn on Nov 21, 2013 19:13:37 GMT -6
Traded a Bach Trumpet for a Tascam 424 cassette 4 track...
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Post by mobeach on Nov 21, 2013 19:24:43 GMT -6
I still have a Tascam DA-88 but it needs a new transport. If they're available..
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Post by winetree on Nov 21, 2013 21:35:34 GMT -6
Tascam 3340S 4 track reel to reel and a Tapco 6000R mixer,
Roland space echo and a Bose P.A. system for playback.
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Post by Ward on Nov 21, 2013 21:45:27 GMT -6
I had a Teac 4 track 1/4" reel to reel, a few shure microphones, and a really mediocre yamaha board with spring reverb. Hey, it was 1979 and I was 14. I worked hard, tracked drums, guitars, Wurlitzer EP200 electric piano, played the bass lines on the Wurly EP200 (still have that), stacked in strings and brass parts with a Crumar Performer... bounced and bounced, stacked in all my harmony vocals by singing a track on 1 and then singing to it as I bounced it to a second track and repeated over and over and over again. I was doing 12 tracks of bvox full of noise long before I heard of Mutt Lang, just because I was in the choir and loved the way multiple voices sounded on each of 3 or 4 parts. Then I thought I was improving when I got a 4 track cassette deck, etc...
I'll never forget those clueless days and accidentally getting something worth listening to on occasion.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Nov 21, 2013 22:49:03 GMT -6
I posted something earlier, and it's not here, hmm
I began with a Teac 4 tk and a Shure mic, mixed down to the stereo PCM track on my VCR. A year later, I had a Tascam 8 track, 2 tk, Neumann U87, Electrovoice RE-20, Lexicon PCM-60 digital reverb, Lex PCM-41 Delay, Yamaha Reverb, Ramsa board, NS-10's, Hafler amp, E-MU Proteus, Kurzweil keyboard controller, Drumulator, a DX-7, and a few other goodies.
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 22, 2013 1:25:21 GMT -6
i always used my friends 4 tracks in the beginning, but my first personal set up was actually a Tac Scorpion console/fostex 16 track....good times 8)
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Post by Martin John Butler on Nov 22, 2013 9:27:44 GMT -6
Not bad Tony ! 16 tracks then, on tape, was great.
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Post by svart on Nov 22, 2013 9:37:40 GMT -6
A cassette tape player and a set of headphones. I turned the headphones around and placed them on a road cone for a stereo mic.
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 22, 2013 10:34:00 GMT -6
A cassette tape player and a set of headphones. I turned the headphones around and placed them on a road cone for a stereo mic. that's exactly what batman would do! |
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Post by mobeach on Nov 22, 2013 11:01:32 GMT -6
A cassette tape player and a set of headphones. I turned the headphones around and placed them on a road cone for a stereo mic. that's exactly what batman would do! I was thinking MacGyver |
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 22, 2013 11:10:44 GMT -6
that's exactly what batman would do! I was thinking MacGyver ahh yes, but you need to look at the bottom of svartman's profile..... |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Nov 22, 2013 11:38:13 GMT -6
My friend created MacGyver !
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Post by scumbum on Nov 22, 2013 11:48:34 GMT -6
I had , I think , Yamaha 424 - 4 Track Cassette ?
Well I recorded every day on it for years . Heres a song I did with it . Some radio shack mics and the 4 track .
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2013 12:17:38 GMT -6
I'm much younger than you guys lol I started out with this and a minidisc stereo microphone :-P  |
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Post by wreck on Nov 22, 2013 12:35:28 GMT -6
Mine was an ancient cassette 4 track, but I can't even find an image of it and I can't recall the brand. It was back in 1986 and was a hand-me-down from my brother, so it was probably one of the earlier ones made. I think consumer recording to tape came in the late 70's. I recall metal jumpers on the back. I think those were to bounce tracks if I wanted to. Anyway, I made some great recordings with that thing back in the day. I thought I did anyway.
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Post by jazznoise on Nov 22, 2013 12:40:52 GMT -6
A USB microphone and Cool Edit Pro 2.0
They were mainly insane collages of nylon string guitar playing chords I didn't understand (Let's make a song only using Augmented chords today!) with weird backwards alien jabberings and then some percussion in the form of spoons, again often reversed. Sometimes I'd plug my electric guitar in through a Behringer V-pedal thingy straight into the sound card for ultimate HD experience.
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Post by svart on Nov 22, 2013 12:47:06 GMT -6
I'm much younger than you guys lol I started out with this and a minidisc stereo microphone :-P I actually moved up from my cassette recorder to a minidisc recorder out from a cheap mixer I got at a pawnshop and using those plastic mics you could buy at wal-mart for cassette tape recorders.. |
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Post by scumbum on Nov 22, 2013 14:07:56 GMT -6
A USB microphone and Cool Edit Pro 2.0 They were mainly insane collages of nylon string guitar playing chords I didn't understand (Let's make a song only using Augmented chords today!) with weird backwards alien jabberings and then some percussion in the form of spoons, again often reversed. Sometimes I'd plug my electric guitar in through a Behringer V-pedal thingy straight into the sound card for ultimate HD experience. Sounds like the ultimate LSD experience  |
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Post by henge on Nov 22, 2013 14:20:58 GMT -6
Started off on a Teac 244. absolute heaven...4 whole tracks!!! Attachments:
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Post by popmann on Nov 22, 2013 14:30:10 GMT -6
Well, if you don't count two cassette players, one with a built in mic...swap one ot the other and record a live take along with playback...
I got a 4trk cassette for my 16th bDay...Fostex X28, if memory serves. Graduated to a bigger Fostex 4 trk soon enough that had an 8 channel mixer built in so I could record 8 inputs and sub them down to stereo...
Then, the little commercial room I started work in as an arranger and ended up engineering a lot was a 1" 16track and if memory serves a StudioMaster (?) console?
When that closed, I built my first "real" studio at home--about 20 years ago now. Reel to reel 8 track...Mackie 1604...and a Mac running Performer--actually a whole big MOTU midi set up with a rack of modules that would look like Spinal Tap today--remember they were VOICE limited...so, there was one that was just for drums, one just for organ, one for piano, etc...
I held out on digital because of how SHITTY ADATs sounded at my buddies' houses and recording at competing little rooms. Specifically, since I was SMPTE sync'd--the only things ON tape were the guitars/bass/vocal, and guitars and bass sounded the worst to 16bit digital, IMO. Then, at some point about a decade ago, the reel to reel died--and there were no more "prosumer" level analog decks. So, I bit the bullet, sold off most of the studio and went completely "ITB"--albeit a Roland box. And proceeded to take about 900 steps back in sound quality.
If ever I seem condescending, this is why...I started the home studio road a LONG time before the masses. It's painful for me to see so many people making the same mistakes I've made...when the tech available NOW, should be empowering for COLLABORATION where it wasn't in the day. The first decade+ of my recording at home were on systems/machines that didn't allow for easy collaboration--I remember once doing a gig for a friend where he brought his 16 track and snakes over to my house and left it for a week or something for me to lay down the keys for his album!
Only together are we god.
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Post by watchtower on Nov 22, 2013 15:12:14 GMT -6
I started out with an SM57, a Tascam 4-track (which I used only as a preamp), and a Dell (used the Line-In port). Probably around 2003 or so.
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 22, 2013 16:12:05 GMT -6
Started off on a Teac 244. absolute heaven...4 whole tracks!!! Anton, thats funny man, that is exactly the 4 track i used, it was my friend johnny's, i used to borrow it constantly and make him harass me before i'd give it back.... Thinking back, it had something cool about it??.....probably the fact that you could multi track at all was it lol |
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Post by henge on Nov 23, 2013 8:43:16 GMT -6
Started off on a Teac 244. absolute heaven...4 whole tracks!!! Anton, thats funny man, that is exactly the 4 track i used, it was my friend johnny's, i used to borrow it constantly and make him harass me before i'd give it back.... Thinking back, it had something cool about it??.....probably the fact that you could multi track at all was it lol No shit! That thing was a workhorse!! LOL Man I wish I could find the songs from back then.... |
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Post by mobeach on Nov 23, 2013 11:00:09 GMT -6
I have a digital 4 track I still use on occasion as a hold over or for mastering. Akai DR4d rack mount. It's very clear sounding.
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