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