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My name is Brock Miller and I am begining my research on the matter of home recording. My last band thing just dismantled and I figured that I needed to work on some stuff on my own.. I am looking to do some more rootsy stuff.. and I have been listening to lots of peoples recordings from the past to try to hear whats going on.. everything to the old mono acetateish Robert Johnson stuff.. to the old Willie Nelson demos likely done on one inch tape according to friends I've talked to .. to Island and Mute/Anti time period Tom Waits stuff as well as 60's garage psychedelia and Chess records flavored stuff and Stax stuff and more recent gut bucket stuff like the Black Keys and White Stripes and I want to know how one gets at some of those sounds in recording.. (as an aside.. my girlfriend who teaches english would kill me for running on like this.. ) I dont think true to life analog is going to be a reality due to cost and availability of machines and tape unless you are talking about cassette 4 or 8 tracks.. I assume that they are inately inferior.. I had thought about going digital and mixing to VHS as I heard that it was actually a decent media that is not considered.. that a poor guy could use.. grrr.. my head is so full of questions and I really have no idea where to begin.. there are the obvious things.. like needing a recording device, mics, cable.. mic preamps.. things of that nature.. what will work as a monitoring system.. ( I plan to use an old Fisher 504 stereo that is older than I am that is now providing me with a place to send audio from my DVD and CD player.. warm... loud.. old.. love it..) I am curious about how things were done juxtaposed against how they are done now.. and how a resonable mesh can be met.. recording to digital.. not warm like analog.. but more expedient I am told.. so.. warm up the signal path.. to compensate I suppose.. so I suppose I will be building a tube mic pre out of parts that were going to be turned into a tube combo guitar amp...
okay, I gotta slow down..
could someone please give me some direction.
thank you...
Brock Miller
My name is Brock Miller and I am begining my research on the matter of home recording. My last band thing just dismantled and I figured that I needed to work on some stuff on my own.. I am looking to do some more rootsy stuff.. and I have been listening to lots of peoples recordings from the past to try to hear whats going on.. everything to the old mono acetateish Robert Johnson stuff.. to the old Willie Nelson demos likely done on one inch tape according to friends I've talked to .. to Island and Mute/Anti time period Tom Waits stuff as well as 60's garage psychedelia and Chess records flavored stuff and Stax stuff and more recent gut bucket stuff like the Black Keys and White Stripes and I want to know how one gets at some of those sounds in recording.. (as an aside.. my girlfriend who teaches english would kill me for running on like this.. ) I dont think true to life analog is going to be a reality due to cost and availability of machines and tape unless you are talking about cassette 4 or 8 tracks.. I assume that they are inately inferior.. I had thought about going digital and mixing to VHS as I heard that it was actually a decent media that is not considered.. that a poor guy could use.. grrr.. my head is so full of questions and I really have no idea where to begin.. there are the obvious things.. like needing a recording device, mics, cable.. mic preamps.. things of that nature.. what will work as a monitoring system.. ( I plan to use an old Fisher 504 stereo that is older than I am that is now providing me with a place to send audio from my DVD and CD player.. warm... loud.. old.. love it..) I am curious about how things were done juxtaposed against how they are done now.. and how a resonable mesh can be met.. recording to digital.. not warm like analog.. but more expedient I am told.. so.. warm up the signal path.. to compensate I suppose.. so I suppose I will be building a tube mic pre out of parts that were going to be turned into a tube combo guitar amp...
okay, I gotta slow down..
could someone please give me some direction.
thank you...
Brock Miller
