What did you record your first song with?

[timodell7]

I used windows sound recorder with an old shure mic plugged into a soundblaster's (so much to learn back then) mic input with the extra gain boost checked, and my ele guitar running to the line in. I still have the recordings and really they don't sound as bad as you would think. You have to work with what you have, so I'm glad to have a delta 1010 now (It's a little better then the sound cards I bought at Circuit City). It's all about what you learn on the way. I learned not to plug the speaker out into the line in.

 

[kcearl]

there's a thread here on it Tim

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=289788

 

[Dogbreath]

Actually my first song was Mary Had a Little Lamb by splicing together different fart sounds on my portable cassette recorder. It wasn't bad but my splices did get better after awhile.

AND, I learned that it was best not to sing directly into the thing after a "tracking" session.

 

[rayc]

Ah, tape splicing! I'm still dealing with the results of splicing with electrical tape in a pinch (red sticky electrical tape shed sure does bind a lots of layers of tape together well & inside a cassette case - well you may be able to guess). I love the little Tandy splicing machine I eventually bought in the late 70's - I still have it in case I need to splice R2R but NOT with electrical tape.

 

[Atom Bomb]

HA. First recording i ever did was with 4 mics bought from radio shack for the drums direct and input all our amps and vocals into a mixer i had bought from flea market. Mixer came back to a componet stereo's cassete recorder did multiple takes of entire sets rather then just our shortest song to get the levels. All done in an unfinished garage with out earphones or hearing protection.

Mixing on the fly live with Tinniuts is not overly reccommended.

Sounds absolutely horrid. But the songs are stellar. I should post em up

 

[dintymoore]

Actually my first song was Mary Had a Little Lamb by splicing together different fart sounds on my portable cassette recorder. It wasn't bad but my splices did get better after awhile.

AND, I learned that it was best not to sing directly into the thing after a "tracking" session.

Now we know where you get the name Dogbreath!

 

[timodell7]

there's a thread here on it Tim

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=289788

Thanks. It really shows that diving in with what you have can teach you a lot about what you need. I used to record to tape with a cheap karaoke machine and then run the playback into the cpu. A lot of noise after a couple of tracks (lol). I remember learning a lot about noise gates and eq. I was more leaning toward first computer recording. I should have phrased it proper.

 

[timodell7]

Actually my first song was Mary Had a Little Lamb by splicing together different fart sounds on my portable cassette recorder. It wasn't bad but my splices did get better after awhile.

AND, I learned that it was best not to sing directly into the thing after a "tracking" session.

I really want to hear that.

 

[timodell7]

HA. First recording i ever did was with 4 mics bought from radio shack for the drums direct and input all our amps and vocals into a mixer i had bought from flea market. Mixer came back to a componet stereo's cassete recorder did multiple takes of entire sets rather then just our shortest song to get the levels. All done in an unfinished garage with out earphones or hearing protection.

Mixing on the fly live with Tinniuts is not overly reccommended.

Sounds absolutely horrid. But the songs are stellar. I should post em up

Was it the radio shack mics with the built in cable? Lol. I've had many radio shack mics. I still use one of them now and then to talk to people from the control room. It's the only mic I have with an on and off switch.Post away, I would give the recordings a listen.

 

[Kingofpain678]

Actually my first song was Mary Had a Little Lamb by splicing together different fart sounds on my portable cassette recorder. It wasn't bad but my splices did get better after awhile.

AND, I learned that it was best not to sing directly into the thing after a "tracking" session.

dog this made me think of you

 

[Dogbreath]

I really want to hear that.

Me too.
But I was about 17 at the time and it got lost. My old band still has the three 90 minute cassettes of burps and farts tho. We'd leave this recorder on pause and record 24/7/365 and anyone and everyone who needed to "expel", was obligated to add. My wife even put one on there just to show her undying love for me.
I should ask them for a copy.

dog this made me think of you

how touching
Grope Hug!


err....
uh...

Group Hug!

 

[Kingofpain678]

dog this made me think of you

ya know.... there was supposed to be a link there... for some reason it wont let me post it....


that just makes this whole thing kinda awkward....

 

[antichef]

I used windows sound recorder with an old shure mic plugged into a soundblaster's (so much to learn back then) mic input

Precisely that, for me -- Shure unisphere and original 8 bit soundblaster in 1991 (I think even the soundblaster was a couple years old at that point)

I also used wav files that I got off local dial-up BBSs, mostly intended for windows system events, along with other wav files I made with a program called trixwave, that would convert any binary file to a wave file by changing the file header information - mostly white noise, but some interesting stuff, and, I assume, limited only to the .wav specification in terms of frequency spectrum. I trashed a bunch of computer speakers.

I had done recordings before that, but just as a musician, with other people doing the recording part.

here was the front and side of my homemade cassette tape cover:

 

[Dogbreath]

Does this mean the Grope Hug is out?

 

[Kingofpain678]

nope.

this just means its that much more weird. ... weirder.


wtf ever.

 

[Atom Bomb]

Was it the radio shack mics with the built in cable? Lol. .

Yes. They were. haha. Yea i'll post some up for you sometime in the next day or so.

 

[johnnymegabyte]

early 70's Norelco AM/FM Cassette <mono> with two pencil mic's connected with a Y adapter, one mic draped over them amp in front of speaker, and the mic taped on an old curtain rod, and I had to balance it upright with my foot.
Not sure if it was a Beatles or Kiss song, and I thought I was amazing.
I borrowed my brother's portable cassette player, unplugged one mic, and connected the headphone out of his cassette into the Y cable, do a tape-to-tape + adding a new guitar. I think the Beatles recorded this way at Abbey Road ... same way, just better equipment

Thirty years later, I'm recording in stereo to PC "Pentium 1" <Soundblaster PCI-128>, but with a Zoom 505 pedal + SM57 for Vocals ... with MIDI backing from the PC "out" to a Radio Shack mixer ---> back to the PC. I guess I could do overdubs on the PC.

That's why I'm here ... to hear what FN-tastic gear everyone else has <cry>, and keep dreaming that some day, I might have modern gear.

 

[Kingofpain678]

early 70's Norelco AM/FM Cassette <mono> with two pencil mic's connected with a Y adapter, one mic draped over them amp in front of speaker, and the mic taped on an old curtain rod, and I had to balance it upright with my foot.
Not sure if it was a Beatles or Kiss song, and I thought I was amazing.
I borrowed my brother's portable cassette player, unplugged one mic, and connected the headphone out of his cassette into the Y cable, do a tape-to-tape + adding a new guitar. I think the Beatles recorded this way at Abbey Road ... same way, just better equipment

Thirty years later, I'm recording in stereo to PC "Pentium 1" <Soundblaster PCI-128>, but with a Zoom 505 pedal + SM57 for Vocals ... with MIDI backing from the PC "out" to a Radio Shack mixer ---> back to the PC. I guess I could do overdubs on the PC.

That's why I'm here ... to hear what FN-tastic gear everyone else has <cry>, and keep dreaming that some day, I might have modern gear.

you can get an alright audio interface for less than 100 dollars and you would be on your way.......

 

[saustindavis]

i recorded my first CD im my apartment on the original garageband. i used a gadget that converted 1/8"into usb, so i had to use a 1/4" to 1/8" converter to plug in my guitar and bass, and an XLR to 1/4" converter plus the 1/4" to 1/8" converter to record the vocals. it actually turned out decent for my first attempt at home recording. i think i sold a grand total of 5 copies of that CD. oh well...

 

[Kingofpain678]

Does this mean the Grope Hug is out?

HERE YA GO DOG