My first real recording session

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Ok it was the early 80,s around 83 I think and the teac 22-4 had just came out and I bought one. All I had for mics was 4 sm56,s I think was the number. They where cheap 57,s and all I had for a mixer was this 6 channel sony that pretty much just had some cut switches for eq. I had no reverb or compressors. Hell I didnt even know there was such a thing as a compressor.

The keyboards where a wurlitzer electric piano I think and everthing was miced. I didnt know you could run things like the piano or the bass guitar direct :rolleyes: Anyway it was mixed down to a pioneer cassette deck then and this mp3 was taken off of that cassette that has been sitting in my tape box ever since.

Any way here is that recording of pretty much my first time doing this for some friends. Before this I had recorded one song of my band with a old 3340 but Dang if that tape isnt gone,
So here it is. Dont laugh to much
 
Are you serious, this isn't bad at all. No compression at all on the bass or the vocals? That's hard to beleive.
 
No compression. You have to remember this was analog 4 track. There was atleast one bounce in there and it got dump to cassette. Plus things like the bass and keys where all miced from their amps instead of direct so that helped on the dynamics some.
THere is one thing I forgot to mention though and thats I may have had a Dx9 dbx unit then. I am not totaly sure when I got it though so I am not sure if its being used here or not.
The vocal effect was actually the tape delay from bouncing the vocal to another track. So the vocal is second generation. And the vocal effect is the first generation vocal. If that makes any sense.
 
Dude, that is sweet. I LOVE the sound of the drums on this. Bass too. Did you mic the bass amp? If so, what kind of amp setup was it, amp and speakers? Cool stuff man!!
 
I have my computer's better audio-cards disconnected at the moment, so I'm listening with sony monitor's built-in mini-speakers ( just like this ) ... and it sounds PERFECT! :) :cool:
Now, question: does one really need to "know" things to do the right thing?

/respects
 
Good point Good Doctor...allow to take a socially medicre stance at this point and let the wine type for me. As we all share a love, and the "ear" if you will,
there seems to be a tug-of-war between how decent of an "ear", naturally, do you have versus how much experience or, in some cases, equipment you have. I believe this is what you were eluding to in the last post, that if you feel things are right and they are right to you, then they are right, no matter the age, equipment, etc. That recording sounded fine to me, and with a 2" Studer back in '83 (ah, I remember just moving from northern KY/south Cincinatti at the time) it would've done some improvements and with years of experience now behind you but not then, it may have sounded different. With a different era of time, a different decade, it would sound different. Hats off to everything you have learned since '83, but I thought that sounded pretty damn good no matter when it was recorded and mixed, no matter what or who the recording was on or who it was by. NICE!! :) :) :)
 
I did mic the bass amp but not sure about what kind it was. Yamaha single 15 comes to mind :confused:
 
Man that sounded good. What kind of room were you in?
 
It was my basement family room. Drywall and paneling on the walls.
 
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