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Not bad at all Herm. I'm suspect it's a challenge to play drums and balance levels for recording at the same time. ;)
 
dodgeaspen said:
Ya it must be tough to be King. (bet ya never heard that one before???)Between my brother and my older sister we had all the Elvis releases from the Pickwick label. I tried to search The Cooper Street Band for more music and couldn't find it. I liked "Jabez Jones" it was a good song.
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You must have quite the collection of records. I sold most of mine ages ago and regret it to this day. I would buy a record and bring it home and record it to my first tape machine, an Ampex 755 consumer deck. I would then sell the record. Of course, most of those old tapes are non playable today. :( Eventually the 755 was replaced by an early model Teac 2300.

Cooper Street Band was a rather short lived local Minneapolis band. They had some awesome talent (including writers) in the band, but too many people to make it feasible financially. They had a drummer, bass, two excellent electric guitar players, two acoustic guitar players, and a young lady singer/flute player/ percussionist.
 
Thanks Richard
Your stuff sounds great. Your pic there reminds me of me with my first 3340.
I had the same hair and beard. Full and fluffy. I could kick myself in the butt for not hanging on to the first recordings or even any of the mixes from the band I was in back when I had my first 3340. If I remeber right it was just about 79 or 80 when I got it. I didnt have the 2a mixer to go with it but did have the little ax20 unit. I was poor then so didnt even have any reverb and mixed down to a cassette deck.
 
Herm said:
Thanks Richard
Your stuff sounds great. Your pic there reminds me of me with my first 3340.
I had the same hair and beard. Full and fluffy. I could kick myself in the butt for not hanging on to the first recordings or even any of the mixes from the band I was in back when I had my first 3340. If I remeber right it was just about 79 or 80 when I got it. I didnt have the 2a mixer to go with it but did have the little ax20 unit. I was poor then so didnt even have any reverb and mixed down to a cassette deck.
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I had two Model 2's that I used back then. I had plug in balancing transformers for the mics. I also, when needed, would use the Teac A-7300 mic preamps to pick up four more inputs. I used them all on the Cooper Street session.

Here's another Cooper Street song. It's a cover so I'll only leave it up a couple of days, but I really liked this one. A little Buffalo Springfield music for ya: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=818206&songID=8264763 Excuse the wrong title for the first song of the two in this.
 
Herm said:
Ok now Richard has made me get my old recording out that I did on my 3340
at a live gig. THis was recorded with the recorder sitting on my trap case next to me at a gig hear in bloomington. It was done on 456 at 7.5 ips.
The bass and drums where mixed together from a send off of the board that we ran from stage. I had to guess at the levels between the bass and the drums. I am ashamed of the drum mix cause its way to loud. Every thing was taken off of the direct outs of a mackie 16 channel stage board to my 3340.
This was the last band I was in. I wish I hadnt recrorded over this tape after I did this so I could go back and fix it.



And Mike if you are listening to this Sorry. It wont stay up long:D
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I think the mix sounds good Herm. The drums are nice the way they were. The group did a good version of
the tune, but the vox kind of left me. That song bought back some old memories.
 
Richard King said:
You must have quite the collection of records. I sold most of mine ages ago and regret it to this day. I would buy a record and bring it home and record it to my first tape machine, an Ampex 755 consumer deck. I would then sell the record. Of course, most of those old tapes are non playable today. :( Eventually the 755 was replaced by an early model Teac 2300.

Cooper Street Band was a rather short lived local Minneapolis band. They had some awesome talent (including writers) in the band, but too many people to make it feasible financially. They had a drummer, bass, two excellent electric guitar players, two acoustic guitar players, and a young lady singer/flute player/ percussionist.
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Our collection has diminished a little over the years, but with my dad, brother, sister, and myself I'd say we have a few thousand albums, 45's, 78's and a few cylinders. Is it possible to get a copy of the Cooper Street Band concert or other recordings? I really liked their style.
 
A Reel Person said:
Great job Dave!:eek::eek:;)
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Hey Dave, I was wondering about the song : Come On, I don't remember Buddy Holly doing a version of that. Could you be thinking of Chuck Berry? I didn't see your added songs until just now. Sorry about that. I'll give a listen.
 
Aw heck!

Was it Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry?
Heck, I don't know!
All I know is it's not a Stones song.
I originally thought it was a Rolling Stones song.
Got it off a Stones record.
Too late to edit now, but thx for listening!:eek:;)

"Come On" was one of my way-early 244 demos!:eek:;)
 
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That's it... time to dust off the old Yamaha MT-50! I wanna throw my hat into the ring...
Some great stuff on here. Keep goin with this, guys.
 
This is the first song of my first 8 track session, started the day after I picked up my brand new 80-8. The band was from Chilie and had moved to Minneapolis where they were the house band at a suburban motel. The club at the hotel was called "Paul's Place". I thought we were simply going to do a few demos that they were going to use to get more gigs. Imagine my surprise when, about a year later, I sent off to a record pressing plant (A&R Record Pressing in Texas someplace) for samples and, among the album covers they sent was a cover (no record) by a band called Zokalo, the same name as the band that I had recorded. I looked at the picture and sure enough it was the same band. I flipped it over and there I was credited as engineer and my studio listed. A couple of years ago I did a Google on the band and found a copy of the record listed on Ebay, and, of course, had to order it. So, I now have a copy of the album that I recorded over 30 years ago. :) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=818206&songID=8285259
I'll post a picture of the cover later. Enjoy.
 
Thanks, Mr. Aspen. ;) It was an interesting session in that they all spoke very broken English and there was a certain amount of a communication barrier. The final product turned out pretty good though and they were very pleased with it. Here's the front and back cover.

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Richard King said:
This is the first song of my first 8 track session, started the day after I picked up my brand new 80-8.
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That was impressive. Very nice sound to it. I'd ask questions like "What was the track assignment" and what effects were available, but since it's about 30 years ago I'm not sure you'd remember :P

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This... I don't play very much. It's from my second album (2005/6) and I'm kind of embarrassed about it now, but it was one of the more technically-challenging recordings I've done:



The synthesizer line at the start was recorded backwards, which meant laying down a couple of clicks to get the start and end right, and turning the tape upside-down. I forgot that the channel order reversed when you did that and muted the wrong channel. This led to a deep, satanical voice whispering things into my right ear during the take.

The harmony was done on three tracks and bounced, since it was done on a single TSR-8 with the 8th track reserved for timecode.

The main issue, however, was the softsynth I used for the electric piano. It worked perfectly in normal playback but when the sequencer was actually being asked to chase MTC, the software spazzed out and dropped a couple of semitones.
I tried everything I could think of and in the end, I was forced to record it with the tape machine running at the wrong speed to compensate. As a result I replaced all my softsynths with hardware.

This track was also the first one where I used my home-brew sampler, loaded up with the M400 choir. There were still a number of bugs in the MIDI implementation at the time but it worked well enough to do this song.

The synth solo at the end was overdubbed 'live' as opposed to being sequenced, one of the few times I've really been able to do that unfortunately. I suck at keyboards.
 
Richard King said:
This is the first song of my first 8 track session, started the day after I picked up my brand new 80-8. The band was from Chilie and had moved to Minneapolis where they were the house band at a suburban motel. The club at the hotel was called "Paul's Place". I thought we were simply going to do a few demos that they were going to use to get more gigs. Imagine my surprise when, about a year later, I sent off to a record pressing plant (A&R Record Pressing in Texas someplace) for samples and, among the album covers they sent was a cover (no record) by a band called Zokalo, the same name as the band that I had recorded. I looked at the picture and sure enough it was the same band. I flipped it over and there I was credited as engineer and my studio listed. A couple of years ago I did a Google on the band and found a copy of the record listed on Ebay, and, of course, had to order it. So, I now have a copy of the album that I recorded over 30 years ago. :) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=818206&songID=8285259
I'll post a picture of the cover later. Enjoy.
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Wow, the 80-8 again. Sounds GREAT. It's mixed really well too. Amazing sounding percussions.
 
jpmorris said:
That was impressive. Very nice sound to it. I'd ask questions like "What was the track assignment" and what effects were available, but since it's about 30 years ago I'm not sure you'd remember :P.
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Any effects were either tape delay or an EMT plate reverb. I don't recall that I had any other effects in the studio at the time. As for track assignments, I've looked around and don't believe that I still have the 1/2" master here (although I haven't checked at my warehouse) and so, no track listing. :(
 
SteveM said:
Wow, the 80-8 again. Sounds GREAT. It's mixed really well too. Amazing sounding percussions.
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Percussion is half the fun of latin rock. I've always enjoyed that.

I may try to post another from them later.
 
That's kind of spooky music jpmorris. I like the way it was done.
 
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