How good does this sound?

[altruistica]

I've just finished the first round of slimming down my setup.

I want to get back to the music and not worry about technology or drivers or anything else......

I'm just running the Fostex G24S in after getting it renovated. When I bought one of the machines, it came with a reel of Agfa PEM 468 that I couldn't play. Anyway I got a chance to play it yesterday. It's full of sea shanties. I'd not heard any of the material before but one stood out....a song called 'Herzogin Cecile'.
Here's the mix straight off the G24S into the Yamaha O2R, using the O2R's automation, gates and a little reverb.

https://altruistica.bandcamp.com/track/herzogin-cecile-artist-unknown

I find it amazing to think that recording has sat on 6 tracks of a possible 24 on a 1" tape that has probably been stored nowhere special.

After doing some searching I found what I think may be an original version:

http://store.tomlewis.net/public/demos/sample_herzogin.m3u

a few more versions led me to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZgl7H-coQ&list=PLGxgpcAz130gCnLI-UKwDKVj43mPJ6VbC&index=7

Isn't the internet a wonderful thing.

Al

 

[garww]

ya, the last thing I got had material on it - five songs. And I thought it was pretty good