Anolog home recording fail

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I have been on here for a while now have made to many post but have read A LOT of the analog forums. ... getting to the point i have exceeded my financial ability to create the home recording studio i wanted to and am left with a Crap TON of equipment as most of the stuff i have is kind of eclectic and very analog i was wondering if it would be OK to post on here to see if any one is interested in any of it before i feed it to the E-bay monster or the Craig's list Kraken. i looked Probably not hard enough for a thread on rules on such matters but did not see any.. any help on this would be much thankful for thanks
 
wow i am a newbie i found the Thread...but any advice would still be nice
 
Hey and welcome!

Nice introduction. There's a free ads section on here. I'm sure your stuff would be welcome there.

Watcha got?
 
A lot check my post in the free ads thread as soon as my camera charges i will be posting it all . i already posted a pic of one of my reel to reels on a past post i think its still there it has my (sob) board in the back ground.... EDIT _ the photo was on photo bucket and is no longer available sorry
 
Good to see you are moving into the 21st century of recording... :D
 
i wouldn't say i am moving anywhere i ..... procreated and now my wife is going to have another child so i have to make "my area" a bedroom instead of a studio. if i could i would build a facility out back for this stuff but that would be some "cash" ... I'll always be analog in my heart as that was the way i was raised :)
 
i wouldn't say i am moving anywhere i ..... procreated and now my wife is going to have another child so i have to make "my area" a bedroom instead of a studio. if i could i would build a facility out back for this stuff but that would be some "cash" ... I'll always be analog in my heart as that was the way i was raised :)



Good man! Analog will never go out of style, hang in there.:guitar:
 
I procreated and now my wife is going to have another child so i have to make "my area" a bedroom instead of a studio. if i could i would build a facility out back for this stuff but that would be some "cash"
I went through exactly the same thing when the kids came along. Had to get rid of the upright, the Fender Rhodes, the Hammond, the double bass, the sitar, the tambura, the cello..........But in the 10 years since our first child, I've done more recording {or at least as much} than in the ten years previous which encompassed singleness and married life but no kids. I've not built anything "out back" or anywhere else. I've just commandered every possible space, kids bedroom, mine and wife's bedroom, kitchen, front room, even the bathroom. Kept basic instruments {electric and acoustic guitars, electric and acoustic bass guitars, drums, congas, bongos, timbales, tablas and a host of percussion, mandolin} and supplemented with a plethora of VSTis, plus the instruments of various friends like flutes, saxes, clarinets and oboes. It can be done. I also use both analog and digital recorders and though I'm phasing out the analog, there's really little difference in terms of the sound quality. Digital doesn't make music brittle and nasty. Not any more. I'll always support both.

Analog will never go out of style, hang in there.:guitar:
I hope analog never goes out of style. I suspect, however, that manufacturers of recording equipment and the decreasing number of those that can repair and maintain older stuff will be the ones to determine in the long run whether or not our machines and equipment will one day just be museum relics.

As a sidenote, it's fascinating seeing people like Slowrider and Beezlebubba posting in the on topic forums having been only used to their cave existence. It's like seeing vampires coming out in the daylight ! :D
 
they follow their own kind LOLOLOLOLOL
 
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Vampires out in the daylight! Now when am I to sleep?
 
Hey, Diggy, funny thing, even back in 2001 as I sold my babies to make room for the new baby, they had these MIDI keyboard modules that had passable organ and piano sounds. I had a couple. One of them had this sensational electric piano sound, the beauty and like of which I've not heard since. But I sold it for a bigger one {with supposed mellotron sounds} because I assumed the bigger one would have that sound too.
It didn't.
And it's mellotron sucked like a hungry baby at the pap.
I regret not recording stuff with it for posterity, but there you go.
Then came the fateful time when I discovered the existence of VSTis. And now, with B4 I have tons of great Hammond sounds as well as being able to make my own, with Lounge lizard I have tons of Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzrer sounds as well as tons more I can create myself, with M-TRON I have tons of mellotron samples and with Sampletank and Miroslav Philharmonik, I have tons of piano sounds.
Keyboard samples are so much more convincing than other instruments.
 
I'd sell my first born for that electric piano sound on Breakfast in America. Ableton 7 had it, but I don't have Ableton anymore. Any idea how they did it? It sounds like mild overdrive and a lush chorus to me.

According to Wikipedia, this was a Wurlitzer 200A. Did it have a chorus or is that the way it actually sounded?
 
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According to Wikipedia, this was a Wurlitzer 200A. Did it have a chorus or is that the way it actually sounded?
I don't think they had chorus but they did have a kind of built in tremolo. I love the sound of the Wurlitzer and the Fender Rhodes though I can't tell one model from another. Going through that Wiki list of songs featuring the 200A are some crackers ~ 'Sugar, sugar', 'Top of the world', 'Brown sugar', 'I heard it thru the grapevine', 'You're my best friend', 'What'd I say', 'All I wanna do' {one of my fave elec piano sounds ever}, 'Lazy sunday' {ditto !}, 'Goodbye stranger', 'And the cradle will rock', 'Meet me at the airport'......
I wouldn't be surprized if Lounge Lizard configures the 200A.
I don't know how any of the electric pianists got their sounds. In fact, I don't know how any guitarists got their sounds either. Or bassists or organists. When I had the Rhodes, I liked the raw sound but sometimes I'd use a chorus or flanger pedal.
 
i am not sure how this turned in to organ talk........ lol but that's funny my father has a full ranking Wurlitzer pipe organ so i grew up listening to the real deal. i have two electric organs one is a Wurlitzer 2in1 and the other is a sea-burg/Leslie they both sound a lot like a 8 bit console but i think that's why i kept them this long.
 
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