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I got to thinking about how old school I am, and the fact that I have spent far more time recording to tape as opposed to recording digitally over the years.

The leap to digital recording was scary for an old buzzard like me, but I jumped in feet first, brain last.

I still record to tape on occasion, but digital recording far exceeds those occasions.

I invite you to post the first recording you ever recorded to digital format.

Be advised that this thread is not about opening up tape versus digital debate. It strictly concerns your first attempt and impressions of recording digitally.

Here’s the first tune I ever recorded to a digital format, and I didn’t screw with it after the fact.

Gee Whiz
 
60's guy said:
I got to thinking about how old school I am, and the fact that I have spent far more time recording to tape as opposed to recording digitally over the years.

The leap to digital recording was scary for an old buzzard like me, but I jumped in feet first, brain last.

I still record to tape on occasion, but digital recording far exceeds those occasions.

I invite you to post the first recording you ever recorded to digital format.

Be advised that this thread is not about opening up tape versus digital debate. It strictly concerns your first attempt and impressions of recording digitally.

Here’s the first tune I ever recorded to a digital format, and I didn’t screw with it after the fact.

Gee Whiz
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Randy, that actually kicks ass.... :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Ok....you want to see where I was 20+ years ago......

Moonlight

3 drunk assholes, a room mic, and a 4 track cassette...
 
Dogman said:
Randy, that actually kicks ass.... :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Ok....you want to see where I was 20+ years ago......

Moonlight

3 drunk assholes, a room mic, and a 4 track cassette...
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For having only used a single room mic this is darned good. The tone drops out a certain point, but I suspect that it's a matter of where the mic was in relation to all 3 players.

On the 1 to 10 cool scale it rates...

:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
 
Well,
after 18 years of 4 track tape work my 1st ever fully digital recording - hmm, about 18months ago, a soundblaster card & cakewalk pro audio 9.3 (still using the latter):
hi-fi URL: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3383143&q=hi
It was a project for my 'cello tutor & she play'n'sings on it. My way of avoiding scales etc - set up a song & work out arrangements & techniques to suit the piece. We'd done 3 tracks to tape before this one.
I was then & still am struggling with the digital recording of 'cello. messy piece of work from me but since I've discovered compressors and then finally a more subtle use thereof I've improved a little since this - not much but hey I'm old.
 
60's Guy - cool track - nice work & playing.
Dogman - your track is a classic of the genre (drunkjammin') and actually if there's been somone tracking it for you soberly with good tones & EQ etc it would stand up really well. As it is it's a hoot & a suggestion of what could be done.
Greg - nice work again. Reminded me of a cross between The Men They Couldn't Hang & an acoustic track I have of Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Cool.
 
Ray and Greg...both of those are some great tunes for early recordings....Very nice.
 
This is a cool thread. It takes some balls to post old stuff. I cant' even stand listening to something I did a month ago.

OK, here goes....The first tune I did on my TASCAM 788 (8 track)...

This is embarrassing....Bad vocals, buzzy direct guitars, over-compressed drums...Corny lyrics (Sounds like I was trying to see how many syllables I can fit into each line)...This is probably 5-7 years old. I'd liike to think I've come a long...or short way.

REAL YOU

You can left click if you only want to hear and not download it. :D
 
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RAMI said:
This is a cool thread. It takes some balls to post old stuff. I cant' even stand listening to something I did a month ago.

OK, here goes....The first tune I did on my TASCAM 788 (8 track)...

This is embarrassing....Bad vocals, buzzy direct guitars, over-compressed drums...Corny vocals (Sounds like I was trying to see how many syllables I can fit into each line)...This is probably 5-7 years old. I'd liike to think I've come a long...or short way.

REAL YOU

You can left click if you only want to hear and not download it. :D
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Oh, Fuck you bastard.... :p


That's way better than anything I ever even thought of doing.... :D

I know you've learned things to improve upon this, but it still sounds great....I love teh bass tone especially...but it's still a well crafted tune. :cool:
 
RAMI said:
This is a cool thread. It takes some balls to post old stuff. I cant' even stand listening to something I did a month ago.

OK, here goes....The first tune I did on my TASCAM 788 (8 track)...

This is embarrassing....Bad vocals, buzzy direct guitars, over-compressed drums...Corny lyrics (Sounds like I was trying to see how many syllables I can fit into each line)...This is probably 5-7 years old. I'd liike to think I've come a long...or short way.

REAL YOU

You can left click if you only want to hear and not download it. :D
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Rami,

EXCELLENT!

Regardless of your opinon of your own tune, this is going into my "Best Of HR Folder".

:cool:
 
60's guy said:
Rami,

EXCELLENT!

Regardless of your opinon of your own tune, this is going into my "Best Of HR Folder".

:cool:
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Oh man, people are actually SAVING this??? I have to take it down soon. :D

60's, I love "GEE WIZ". Love the guitars. Ever thought of putting lyrics to it?

Dogman, "Moonlight" is cool. Your drums and guitar sound has come a million miles since, but this is a really cool tune. VOCALS!!!!
 
Bloody hell RAMI!
You had your signature sound already!!!!
This is fun.
I've just dug up my 1st attempts at recording - live to pportable stereo cassette in 1976.
I'll get that to soundclick for a hoot & post the link when I've done.
 
Good tune, Ray. Actually sounds llike alot of orchestration. Couldn't have been easy to record. Very haunting.
 
Oops....me and Ray posted at the same time. Thanx dude. This is really cool to get to listen to people's earlier recordings.

Greg. Nice vocal sound and you've always been a good singer, it seems. Cool shit.
 
Thanks Rami....that was back in the band days as a kid...It was a pretty Cheesy song, but fun back then.... :D
 
I thought that 'Gee Wiz' sounded pretty cool myself. Loved the groove you got going in the piece. I got into this digital recording stuff real late too. I'm still learning new things all the time.

I put this thing up when I first joined here. But since it's a first recording in the digital realm... It's not much. Just an acoustic guitar instrumental.

Little Habanero
 
hi-fi URL: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=4863475&q=hi
Here ya go...as far from digital as you can get - just a little over 30 years ago the 1st song I was involved in writing & also the 1st recorded.
We used an Ibanez hummingbird 12 string acoustic, a Coronet SG copy bass through a 5 watt coronet guitar amp, and a portable panasonic stereo cassette player using the inbuilt condenser & auto hard limiter mics.
A live recording of Eric Drabwell (co-writer) on guitar, Mary-Anne Flood on vocals & me on the thud thud bass.
This was recorded in my room in the rural college town of Armidale NSW Australia in the 1st 1/2 of 1976.
You can even hear the clunck of the dicky wheel inside the cassette tape.
Being a terrible bower bird I still have the tape & cassette recorder/player (now dead). I had the bass for quite some time until a friend in a band I was in in about '83 - the Talented Few (translated to few talents)- borrowed it & then disappeared.
There's a 2006 version of the song at the bottom of my soundclick list with a very similar sounding female vocalist.
 
That's really good stuff Rami. First digital recording? Wow.
 
cmhansen said:
That's really good stuff Rami. First digital recording? Wow.
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Thanx guy. Yeah, it's my first finished song digital. I had a FOSTEX 8-track for years before that, but it had been about 8 years between the two.

I'm off to bed, but I'll check out your song tomorrow...And whatever other new songs go up.
 
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