For all you old farts (born before 1967)

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I'm only 17, but I learnt the VERY basics of mixing, mics etc on a 24 year old Reel-to-Reel. God only knows what make it was, but the old analogue sound was crap!
Or amybe it was just my mixing!
It was only last year, too. Doesn't time fly when your having fun?
 
HEY! YEAH YOU! You're not old enough to post on this thread!

AND GET OFF MY LAWN!:D :D :D
 
And BTW Neil..................it was definitely your mixing or the tape deck. That "old analog sound" is just fine when done right and there are those who prefer it in some areas to digital.
 
I'm so old that...

(borrowed from a Washington Post contest)

...we didn't have hand held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated.


...we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

...we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes drenched in melted fat from these animals. And we're all as strong as AAGGKK-GAAK Urrrrrrrrrgh...... THUD!

:D
 
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littledog said:

...we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes drenched in melted fat from these animals. And we're all as strong as AAGGKK-GAAK Urrrrrrrrrgh...... THUD!

:D
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:D :D :D :D :D
 
My grampa bought me a 66 Fender Mustang when I was a kid. Born in 55. Got a Les Paul Custom for a while (expensive rascal), but it was a piece of junk - went back to a real guitar. Started recording at age 45 and still use the Mustang. I don't fool around with no junk guitars. : )
 
And BTW Neil..................it was definitely your mixing or the tape deck. That "old analog sound" is just fine when done right and there are those who prefer it in some areas to digital.
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Amen to that Lt. Bob!
 
Born 1951.
1st guitar - Stella 6-string (two-inch action)
1st recorder - Wollensack R/R
1st Band - 1966 - The Lost Lads (really!)
1st Time - With Redhead Patty in the Park.

Bob
 
Haven't been out with this lousy weather. Good reports out of Marathon, though. Maybe it's time for ye olde party boat!
 
Born in 1949

You all are really making me feel old. My first recording was a mono Wollensak and a mono Sear reel-reel recorders with built-in mikes. I did sound-with-sound by sitting them close together and playing one back while I sang/played so that the other would record both. Needless to say, the quality was horrible. Wrote a good march that way. I then used a homemade mixer between them. It didn't work well, too much hum.

Then I graduated to an Akai stereo machine that had real sound-on-sound. Man was it great. I could do as many tracks as I wanted. Tape hiss? Who worried about tape hiss. We were just glad to be able to record. I'm working now to recover those old tapes for my memories.

Now I do it all on the computer and am very happy with the results. I do wish I had that 1968 Harmony Sovereign back and I wish my fingers worked like they did in 1968, but I'm just glad to be alive.

Let's keep this thread going, I love it.

Harv
 
haburton said:
Born in 1949

You all are really making me feel old. My first recording was a mono Wollensak and a mono Sear reel-reel recorders with built-in mikes. I did sound-with-sound by sitting them close together and playing one back while I sang/played so that the other would record both. Needless to say, the quality was horrible. Wrote a good march that way. I then used a homemade mixer between them. It didn't work well, too much hum.

Then I graduated to an Akai stereo machine that had real sound-on-sound. Man was it great. I could do as many tracks as I wanted. Tape hiss? Who worried about tape hiss. We were just glad to be able to record. I'm working now to recover those old tapes for my memories.

Now I do it all on the computer and am very happy with the results. I do wish I had that 1968 Harmony Sovereign back and I wish my fingers worked like they did in 1968, but I'm just glad to be alive.

Let's keep this thread going, I love it.

Harv
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Rock on Harv!:cool:
 
Synths:
Arp 2500 (like the one in Close Encounters), Arp 2600, Aries Modular, Moog Studio 55, Moog Ribbon Controller

Effects:
Echoplex, Foxx Wah Wah

Studio Gear
Audio: Revox A77s (still going strong), RCA 77 Ribbon Mic.
Video: Sony 3650 Half Inch Open Reel VTRs
 
jgourd said:
Synths:
Arp 2500 (like the one in Close Encounters), Arp 2600, Aries Modular, Moog Studio 55, Moog Ribbon Controller

Effects:
Echoplex, Foxx Wah Wah

Studio Gear
Audio: Revox A77s (still going strong), RCA 77 Ribbon Mic.
Video: Sony 3650 Half Inch Open Reel VTRs
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That was some high end gear at the time man.
Nice analog collection.
 
Only the 2600 and the ribbon controller were mine. The rest of the synths belonged to the now defunked Boston School of Electronic Music.

The 2500 was a bitch to program. It did not use patch cords. It had a bunch of rows of multi position slide switches that made up a matrix of all module inputs to outputs. The switches needed constant cleaning.

I much prefered the Moog 55 with its 1/4" jacks and plugs. Plus a really intricate patch looked impressive with all those wires dangling all over the face of it :-)
 
Hey JGOURD -

Did you ever go to the Sword In The Stone in the 60's?
p.s. I LOVE Boston!

Bob
 
1st system

Akai 4000DS Peavey 6 channel mono to Sanyo Cassette
M-I-C....K-E-Y... well you know the rest....

Me....born 1951
 

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This is the only board I've encountered where there are people older than me,I thank you all. Started with a Columbus P-bass and a Selmer Zodiac 100w valve amp (sold.) ,electronic wise it was a Boss DR 55 (stolen..) and an EDP Wasp and a dodgy 2 track.
 
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