Your FIRST setup?

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Hey guyz, I am curious to findout what was your FIRST recording setup and at what age?

I'll go first.

AGE: 15yrs old

EQUIPMENT: Sony turntable, Sanyo turntable, Olympus 4 channel PA mixer, silver-faced Kenwood single well cassette recorder, Casio DJX keyboard, Roland MC-303 groovebox, RadioShack kareoke mic, my dad's OLD sony headphones circa late 1970's?
 
I'm also interessted

I'm 16 years old and i'm also interested.

Let's hear of you.
 
My VERY first recording setup was an old vacuum tube-based reel to reel recorder (bell and howell) my father abandoned in the attic. I cleaned it up, redid some of the brittle wiring, and it worked! It had stereo RCA inputs and outputs, a headphone jack, and a 1/4" mic jack. I bought a pair of headphones and a cheap microphone at radio shack. I was about 13 or 14. The microphone and the headphones were an Xmas gift from my parents.

A year or two later, I had saved enough allowance and lawn mowing money to purchase a Tascam 244, a double-speed cassette-based porta studio. Was a nice unit, I still have it and use it for "doodling as it has a built in mixer, simplistic as it is.

In 1987, I was 19, and I purchased a Fostex 450-16, a 16 ch, 4 buss analog mixer, which I also still have today in the attic. I liked this mixer VERY much, even though at the time brand new it was in the 1600-1800 range, I don't remember exactly. I bought used out of the newspaper a Tascam 238 Syncaset, which like the 244 is a double-speed cassette multitrack recorder, except it didn't have the mixer bits, AND it was an eight track recorder instead of four. I kept this setup for long time, until I purchased my first Akai DR8, 8ch digital hard disk recorder. I was in love! Tacam also introduced the TMD-1000 16-ch 4-buss digital mixer, for about $1600 street price at the time, so I snagged one of those as well. I was absolutely in love with both units - simply, reliable, easy to use. Then I snagged a DR16 (16ch digital hard disk recorder) and bought another TMD-1000, and cascaded them together. Then I snagged another DR16 on ebay, and a Tascam TMD-4000 (32ch, 8buss digital mixer) to go with it. Then over the last six or seven years, I've ended up with the TMD4000, six TMD1000's, six DR16's and two DR8's, all off e-bay over the years.

This was home studio stuff... I've (co)owned three pro studios over the years which for the most part, had a totally different class of equipment.
 
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Cool :)

I just only have a behringer ub 2442-fx pro mixer and a computer and some very cheap mic. The mixer is connected to an ordinary stereo set. It's quite nice I think for the amount of money I have
 
i started when i was 13 with two garbage picked tape decks and they both had two 1/4" mic inputs so all together i had 4 inputs actually i think i have a picture let me look: i do but its too large for this
 
I started with a cheap karoke machine and 1 mic. We recorded everything at once and moved what was too quiet closer to the mic. It worked for us. I was 13.
 
It's fabulous to hear that so many people started at the same age. I did the same I was just thirteen when I started.

:)
 
yeh actually i take my previous post back i started with a mini disk player and one mic ..... whatever was too quiet i would move the mic closer to that
 
1st set up, 3 years ago:

tascam 4 track
4 cheap radio shack mics
cheap old PC 120 mhz
 
Back in the late 60's, I started with an old Sony tube reel to reel. I still have it. I could record on the left track, come back and over dub on the right track. It was pure majic I thought at the time. My first multi track was a 3340 for a while, then a Tascam 238, same as Frederic along with a Peavey MD-16, 16 channel mixer. I made a LOT of tapes with that setup (and I still have both). About ten years ago I graduated to ADATs, then the HD24. Of course I worked in tape based studios along the way.
 
When I was about 13 I started recording my guitar with a portable cassette recorder with just its built-in crappy mic. It was a big deal to me when I heard how much better an external mic sounded. But jeez, when I got a second cassette deck I thought I'd made a huge discovery when I realized I could combine a recorded track from the line out of one machine with live input going into the second recorder. My intro to multitrack recording.

Tim
 
1991 (15 years old):

Casio MT-520
Yamaha DS55
Yamaha SY55
Sony MHC-1600 bookshelf stereo system
Boss BX4 mixer

I managed to record an entire demo tape with this equipment.
 
I was 16.

Sony Boombox in my buddies attic.

Damn I wish I had the tapes now! lol
 
livilaNic -
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My first was the infamous double-dual cassette abomination,

a while, actually years later... a Vestax 4 track, with a radio shack mic buried under a bunch of clothing on the basement floor....
 
I was 14 and armed with a Fostex 4-track (can't remember the model - it was gray) and a Shure a-10 dynamic. I had also borrowd a Roland s220 which I later bought and still have, and a yamaha tg-55. Didn't discover digital recording until I was about 17.
 
some cheap fostex 4 track casette and a fender mic, probably off a pa. I bought this setup in order to do a school project, and now Im freakin addicted to the stuff!
 
I started out with a cheap radio shack mic recording into a stereo. First real setup was some crappy radio shack mics into a Mackie mixer into a Sound Blaster card...that was when I was 15. Now at 18, I have an audiophile 2496, adobe audition, mackie 1202, sm57, rode nt1-a and some other mics.
 
Tascam Porta7
Hand-me-down Fender knockoff from uncle who said it wouldn't work
Plastic Mic from an old tape player/recorder combo.
Boss Flanger from a pawn shop
Ratt stompbox Direct In!!! OUCH
Age-15

First Cover recorded : Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins
 
i think i started messin around with recorded with my band when i was 13. was really just messin around.

had a bunch of SM57s, a behringer mixer and a soundblaster live. we didnt get anything done though with it :D. few months later we drove out of state and i stepped in my first recording studio. Xstatics Studio.

Then when i was 15 i started to try a little more serious. Bro in law was in a band that had a Mackie 1604 VLZ, 57s, i had my computer and Cakewalk Pro Audio 5. I was really into midi recording then. I saved up my money and bought a delta 44 and thats how it really started.

danny
 
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