WhinyLittleRunt
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Your page is gone man... what happened?
My New All '70s Analog Basement Recording Studio w/Pics and Audio !!!
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SongJohnn
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Here is a new song I recorded with the machine fresh off the tape from this morning!!!!!:
It's a tribute to seals and crofts but you get the picture....
Here's all the other recordings in order of completion;
The older pictures:
It's a tribute to seals and crofts but you get the picture....
Here's all the other recordings in order of completion;
The older pictures:
Blue Jinn
Rider of the ARPocalypse
btw, where did you locate 1/2" 203? That's cool. I have some 1/2" 206 and one reel of 207 I want to try out. I have some 1/4" 177 that is pretty good for hifi recording.
WhinyLittleRunt
Member
What kinds of drum kits are those?
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SongJohnn
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Those are pearl drums the red ones, and probably Star drums the blues.....the blues are WAY more high pitched sounding and the reds fatter. I believe the blues are older.....more keith moon sounding. The snare and bass drum have re-rings, but the toms do not, which is why they sounds so high pitched I think.
The red drums do have re-rings on all drums and as a result I think they sound less '60s-ping like and more '70s wooly-like sound so it's cool to have a bit of both.
The red drums do have re-rings on all drums and as a result I think they sound less '60s-ping like and more '70s wooly-like sound so it's cool to have a bit of both.
WhinyLittleRunt
Member
+1 on the Star kit; I just got one recently, and I love it - it's just a cool little kit to own! I was thinking it had to be a jap kit of some sort, but wasn't sure. Cool Vistalites also BTW...
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
I'm still trying to figure out the VocalMaster on top of the showman cab!
That's a great set-up you have man ..... I envy you.
That's a great set-up you have man ..... I envy you.
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vinyvamos
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Lovely setup you have there! 
That is some size of a machine for a 1/2" 8 track! That desk looks like the big daddy of the Teac Series 5 desks. I have one in storage and have been meaning to restore it and start using it with one of my 8 tracks. Them desks are so heavily built it's amazing! Really diggin the toy piano too! DING DING!
That is some size of a machine for a 1/2" 8 track! That desk looks like the big daddy of the Teac Series 5 desks. I have one in storage and have been meaning to restore it and start using it with one of my 8 tracks. Them desks are so heavily built it's amazing! Really diggin the toy piano too! DING DING!
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SongJohnn
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Your right it's a Teac 15!! Thanks for the kind words.
I have yet another recording I made on the 80-8 - perheps the best one I've made yet. I seem to be on an upward trend in terms of getting a good sound out of the 80-8. I'm not posting this recordings because the song idea I had was good or that the playing is good, cause it aint, but to demonstrate just how great the 80-8 can sound. And this was recorded on 1/2" tape FROM the '70s !! Reason being is that I've seen a lotta trash talking toward the 80-8 on the net. Usually these machines sound bad because people don't know how to get good sounds recorded. And honestly, this recording doesn't even show 60% of the 80-8's potential: add an extremely tight plate reverb, mic the guitars instead of direct like they are here...have a vintage stereo compressor at the master buss like the old DBX 162....etc etc............better mics...better bass drum mic.....and this recording would sound even more deep. The teac 80-8 is not a machine to bad mouth nor is the Teac 15 mixer; they really do sound as good as any '70s record I had just as long as you can use them right. It's not easy....it took me 2 days just to get this drum sound ......back and forth into the control room and into the music room is very time consuming.
Also, the drums are recorded to only 2 channels on the 80-8. It's like 5 mics send to channels 2 and 3 so the EQ had to be pre-dialed in on the drums. The snare's mic, a vintage shure 545 is running through a 1960s Bogen tube pre amp.
All the guitars, and bass are run through the same 1960s tube preamp that I love. It's a miraculous piece and can be seen in tan color sitting on the meter bridge - i got two.
Here's the track:
Thank you for the support. Analog gear is way underrated!!
I have yet another recording I made on the 80-8 - perheps the best one I've made yet. I seem to be on an upward trend in terms of getting a good sound out of the 80-8. I'm not posting this recordings because the song idea I had was good or that the playing is good, cause it aint, but to demonstrate just how great the 80-8 can sound. And this was recorded on 1/2" tape FROM the '70s !! Reason being is that I've seen a lotta trash talking toward the 80-8 on the net. Usually these machines sound bad because people don't know how to get good sounds recorded. And honestly, this recording doesn't even show 60% of the 80-8's potential: add an extremely tight plate reverb, mic the guitars instead of direct like they are here...have a vintage stereo compressor at the master buss like the old DBX 162....etc etc............better mics...better bass drum mic.....and this recording would sound even more deep. The teac 80-8 is not a machine to bad mouth nor is the Teac 15 mixer; they really do sound as good as any '70s record I had just as long as you can use them right. It's not easy....it took me 2 days just to get this drum sound ......back and forth into the control room and into the music room is very time consuming.
Also, the drums are recorded to only 2 channels on the 80-8. It's like 5 mics send to channels 2 and 3 so the EQ had to be pre-dialed in on the drums. The snare's mic, a vintage shure 545 is running through a 1960s Bogen tube pre amp.
All the guitars, and bass are run through the same 1960s tube preamp that I love. It's a miraculous piece and can be seen in tan color sitting on the meter bridge - i got two.
Here's the track:
Thank you for the support. Analog gear is way underrated!!
WhinyLittleRunt
Member
That's a sick mixer, everything sounds real cool and definitely has a vibe to it. I really like Sudan Village!
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SongJohnn
New member
Thanks a lot......good mixer fur sur. LT BOB....I love your song midnight dream. And "pot likes me" from 1976!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
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SongJohnn
New member
They're not anymore.....I wish they were and more of your '70s stuff!! Really good sound you got back then...John
j.harv
@#$%
Sounds great.Do you have the bass drum panned hard right,or is my right ear playing tricks on me?
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SongJohnn
New member
Thanks, but no just straight down the middle. The snare is panned
Blue Jinn
Rider of the ARPocalypse
+2 or maybe +3 on the Teac 15. Always fancied one. I'm assuming the pres are transformer coupled like the smaller model 3 and 5.
diggy_dude
Now 169% diggier!
Is that why a flea market operator can say with a straight face that his old beat-to-hell Model 5 is worth $1200?
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AL22
New member
amazing stuff, man! Used to have an M15 myself. I sold it two years ago and I totally regret it. I´m thinking about building an all analog Studio in Berlin, nothing fancy, just old stuff with lot´s of vibe and tape.
I dig your songs!
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I dig your songs!
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