Early recording efforts

[evm1024]

I was digging around and came across a recording I made in 1979. I've made it into an mp3 for your entertainment. This is a Bach Fughetta from Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' if I remember right. It was made on my first tape deck. A Teac A-6300 running at 7.5 ips on Maxell UD 35-180. I used 2 Sony unbalanced mics and long cable runs hence the noise.

THis was a recital by Terry Nelson in St. Marks in Portland Oregon. St Marks is in an industrial area of town and the freeway grew up around it.

The organ is a 1966 Bosch that was inaugurated by none other than E. Power Biggs. He did sign the case as well. Is is a quite nice tracker action organ that Biggs specified to the Northern German tradition.

http://arafel.org/audio/recordings/bach-fughetta.mp3

You can see a photo of the organ here:

http://home.teleport.com/~wkrueger/organ/bosch.html

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Please feel free to add links to your early recording attempts to this thread.

[cjacek]

Man, you seriously hampered this fine recording with the 128 bit mp3 but, nevertheless, it has a great vibe going for it. Man, this sounds real nice! You captured the live instrument, ambience and liveness of it all superbly! Sounds so pretty, open, natural with much character. I really love this thing! Thank you for sharing Ethan!

[evm1024]

Sorry about that. I just burned a cd off the master tape and ripped that using winXP defaults. No thought into the mp3 and almost no tools for digital here.

Thanks for the complements...