dafduc
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I was cleaning out the garage and came across an old gig tape from '85. Kinda funny to listen to now.
I listened to 4 sets worth - really pretty good sound quality, considering how low budget we were.
I posted a couple of mp3s out on my blogspot site, since they're covers, I'd be violating NWR terms putting them up there.
Give these a listen, tell me what you think. There's definitely some tape wow, and guitar and mics were panned one side, everything else to the other. Rerecorded at 16/44, mp3 rate is 96k.
If you have an idea about the best way to put these together (center all but vocs & guitar? Just bring sides in closer? Go mono and then do that fake stereo trick in SoundForge?), let me know, okay?
Here's the details:
Euphoria, Dec. 1985
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Greg Southwell, lead vocs
Steve Stefanski, guitar and vocs
Bob Goodsite, bass and vocs
Daf, keys and vocs (Prophet 5, Yam KX-88 driving TX-7 pair)
Jerry ??? (substitute - regular drummer got fired earlier that week), drums and vocs, lead voc on Mickey's Monkey
No Looking Back was a Michael McDonald single that was in heavy VH-1 rotation back then, but never was a hit. Mickey's Monkey was the old Smokey hit - we rocked it up a bit.
The whole tape had about 20 songs on it, if you guys are interested, I can put up more later.
Anyhow, MY perceptions of the whole tape:
(1) Greg's personality "shines" through as usual - he used to walk around the bar singing on our breaks. "Everybody look at me!".
(2) We didn't have a funky bone anywhere in our 5 combined bodies. Sad.
(3) As a whole, the Prophet sounds hold up better than the TX-7, which really sounds dated - but my TX-7s were still new then, I think I was using stock DX sounds still. I know I came up with a better piano sound later.
(4) Nice full sound from the bass - love that tape!!! Bob's voice also records better than Greg's, but he's not on these two songs.
(5) Steve played on as homemade guitar through a pair of 10-watt Peavey amps. Still a great sound. Never played with anyone who could shred like Steve...
Daf
I listened to 4 sets worth - really pretty good sound quality, considering how low budget we were.
I posted a couple of mp3s out on my blogspot site, since they're covers, I'd be violating NWR terms putting them up there.
Give these a listen, tell me what you think. There's definitely some tape wow, and guitar and mics were panned one side, everything else to the other. Rerecorded at 16/44, mp3 rate is 96k.
If you have an idea about the best way to put these together (center all but vocs & guitar? Just bring sides in closer? Go mono and then do that fake stereo trick in SoundForge?), let me know, okay?
Here's the details:
Euphoria, Dec. 1985
----------------------------
Greg Southwell, lead vocs
Steve Stefanski, guitar and vocs
Bob Goodsite, bass and vocs
Daf, keys and vocs (Prophet 5, Yam KX-88 driving TX-7 pair)
Jerry ??? (substitute - regular drummer got fired earlier that week), drums and vocs, lead voc on Mickey's Monkey
No Looking Back was a Michael McDonald single that was in heavy VH-1 rotation back then, but never was a hit. Mickey's Monkey was the old Smokey hit - we rocked it up a bit.
The whole tape had about 20 songs on it, if you guys are interested, I can put up more later.
Anyhow, MY perceptions of the whole tape:
(1) Greg's personality "shines" through as usual - he used to walk around the bar singing on our breaks. "Everybody look at me!".
(2) We didn't have a funky bone anywhere in our 5 combined bodies. Sad.
(3) As a whole, the Prophet sounds hold up better than the TX-7, which really sounds dated - but my TX-7s were still new then, I think I was using stock DX sounds still. I know I came up with a better piano sound later.
(4) Nice full sound from the bass - love that tape!!! Bob's voice also records better than Greg's, but he's not on these two songs.
(5) Steve played on as homemade guitar through a pair of 10-watt Peavey amps. Still a great sound. Never played with anyone who could shred like Steve...
Daf