So, you've seen my old band.....One mic and 4 guys doing "music"!!!!!noisedude said:That would only be truly hardcore if it was hooked up to a Tascam four-track cassette using non-chrome C-90 tapes.
snow lizard said:What we really need is a good mentor. Kind of like the Ron Jeremy of the home recording world or something.
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chessrock said:All you guys who think you're hardcore ... you're not.
I just saw pictures of some dude using a kitty litter box as a kick drum tunnel. And I thought to myself: "Now that guy is hard core."
You guys can't even hold this guy's kitty jock strap, you're so not hard core.
I know a guy who didn't have a multi-track recorder, but he had like 4 tape decks. So the dude records 8 tracks, simultaneously, by having 4 people all hit "record" on each of the tape decks, simultaneously, and then had to sync up each of the tracks through his mixer by having the play button pressed on all four tape decks, again, simultaneously.
This due was hard core.
You guys don't even know what hardcore is ... with all yer fancy computers and sound cards. Go play with your dolls or something.
mshilarious said:I don't like the way things are today . . . all this using digital audio workstations and VST plug-ins fer multitrackin'! I hate it!
Back in my day, we'd just use the built-in mic on a boombox and get everybody with their Crate amps, solid state Marshalls, cracked cymbals and Fender Squire Bullets in the same room! And we only had one tape, so we kept using it over and over agin!
Tim Brown said:I can top that.
I had 2 sansui Reel-to Reel 2 tracks of the same model. We bolted the cases together, and wired all of the buttons together so when you hit record - it sytarted record on both machines, hit stop it stopped them, etc.
Then we threaded the tape through the first machine, and then turned the tape over and threaded it through the second machine.
A Home made 4-track!
It recorded 2 tracks on one side of the tape, and 2 tracks on the other.
And you know what - it actually worked quite well.
So stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Tim
dgatwood said:Oh yeah? I did the same thing (except with separate tapes) with VCRs. I'd line up the starting point by watching for the conductor's foot to hit the podium on both VCRs, then backed them up, counting the frames, and started them with a single remote control. The sync was so accurate, I actually did poor-man's stereo between two mono camcorders that way (once, for a gag... the automatic levels made it too distracting to actually use the that way...).
At one point, I actually considered designing an unAGC. I also started writing software at one point to do the same. The concept is simple. Each camcorder emits a characteristic whine. Find the frequency. Determine the level with an FFT. Adjust the overall signal level across a relatively short block using some smoothing algorithm in such a way that the camcorder's motor noise remains constant, thus restoring the original, pre-AGC levels....
Heheh.
LRosario said:Well hardcore to me would be trying to record a song with a nagging girlfriend or wife at your side. Even more if you got the inlaws watching you, too.
In fact, I think the inlaws factor is like an automatic 50 million hardcore point increase.
Enough said....50 thousand dollar reward to the person who can top that.
chessrock said:That's not even remotely hardcore.
Hardcore would be any of the following:
* Getting your wife / GF to fetch coffee and clean up the home studio for you. Bonus points for getting her to assistant engineer on the project, or training her to be your guitar tech and change strings for you and tune up the guitar between takes.