What recording gear did you start out with?

That looks like Lamb Chop's cousin hanging out by the blank CD's !

Tascam 4 track cassette & sm58 -> Digi 001 & Studio Projects C1

Exactly , thats why I only eat at Burger King .

+1 with a Tascam Portastudio 424 first recording in teen days...

It was marvellous. We felt like gods with our own studio recording gear. 4 tracks and endless possibilities. To us kids it was like the holy grail of recording. A studio at home!!!
While my parents were on vacation, we recorded for a week in the living room, a Beyer live vocal mic on track1, a Pearl Jazz bass copy thru a flanger directly into track2, and track 3+4 for our programmed beats from a TR-505.
Man, that were some serious kind of "dark wave" tracks - bleeding edge new music that time, that i couldn't do with my heavy rock band, so i did it with my brother on vox and a later pro hip hop MC that i knew from partying in the clubs doing the beats...!

We made copies with a double tape deck and they catched quite a few peoples attention...... :-)
Memories! Sigh.... (I HAVE to look for the cassette, it might still be around in a box somewhere here......)

BR,
Martin

Guitar what's that box that says "selmer" on it? I thought they only made horns.

Selmer also made and/or marketed electric guitars under their brand name.

I started out using a crappy sony dual tape boombox in the late 90's. When I got a computer in 98, I obtained a copy of Cool Edit Pro and Soundforge. I was using cheap radioshack mics with a bunch of 2 into one adapters plugged into the built in soundcard to make recordings. Then I got a tape deck that had 4 inputs, not a 4 track recorder, just 4 inputs. I could record those 4 inputs to cassette tape, then dump the line output to the computer. Rinse, repeat.

I started recording as a kid in the mid '60's with a Braun 2-track and an Ampex cassette deck that I convinced my parents to buy. Recorded the groups I was in, and multi-tracked by bouncing between the two recorders. Built most of my other equipment, including an Ampeg bass amp because I got the schematic from somewhere and a twin-15 cabinet. I also had a Traynor Bassmaster tube amp with a single 15 and a 4x10 cabinet. I wired up my '66 Strat with a stereo jack and some switching into a splitter box I built, so I could feed the two amps, one on each side of the stage. Nice sound, sometimes sounding like there were two guitarists. I was usually in 3-man groups (guitar, bass, drums) playing blues and hard rock, so the stereo guitar helped. Later, in grade 12, I finally got to record in a real studio, Sound Canada in Toronto, which no longer exists. We recorded an album, everything lost except I still have a few copies of the 45's from our first single.

Is it too rude to ask a lady her age? I thought I'd count for youngest at 21. I still have my 2442 - it's not the quietest thing and the compressor doesn't know the meaning of the word subtle but it works.

First electric guitar, the 1967 Gibson Melody Maker w/ 3 pickups. I wish I still had it, it sounded like a Telecaster with bigger balls. In truth, it's actually the second. I bought a Goya knock-off of a 335, worked all summer delivering pizza's to buy it. Brought it home to show to my mother, leaned it up against a wall, and KABONG, over it went, headstock snapped right off. A tough lesson, for sure.

Your lucky , that setup looks awesome !!

I would have loved to have at least the 4 track version when I started out .