My First Daw.

[WhiskeyJack]

The millennium falcon of recording rigs.

VS880EX was the brains of the operation. Lord only know whats the heck i had going into that mixer. I think it was something different everytime we jammed. We recorded everyone of our band practices. I was a nerd like that i guess. The band was cool that they let me just much around and try different set ups and stuff. Nothing ever sounded good. But i tried man. I tried.

It was a horribly clunky cumbersome piece of kit to use.

Oh! And why yes, those are my monitors on the bottom shelf at knee level. A set of Dell's finest desktop speakers they had to offer at the time. I sold the subwoofer becasue and i shit you not:

I didn't want to have a inaccurate bass response.

[JD01]

Posh! I just had a jack adapter and stuck a cheap mic straight into the sound card and recorded with Cool Edit Pro 2.

[WhiskeyJack]

Cool Edit Pro 2.

Everything that i did one that hunk of shit ended up in CEP2.0 I bet we knew each other on the forums back then.

[JD01]

Cool Edit Pro 2.

Everything that i did one that hunk of shit ended up in CEP2.0 I bet we knew each other on the forums back then.

haha, I didn't really use forums for recording until a few years ago when I joined HR and started chatting to you, Bubba, Greg, Armi etc.

I did briefly try using Home Recording Connection about 12 years ago... Tadpui recommended that I get a Line6 TonePort and Reaper.

[Greg_L]

I recorded drums by themselves into a boombox on a cassette tape - click track in my head. Then I'd play that tape through the stereo, put the boombox next to the speaker, and record bass into a new tape in the boombox to the drums coming from the hifi speakers. Then I'd take that tape with bass and drums, play it through the hifi, put the boombox by the speaker again, and record guitar into the boombox on the first tape. Then I'd take that tape with drums, bass, and guitar, play it through the stereo, put the boombox by the speaker, and sing my vocals into another tape on the boom box. That was my multitracking, and mixing was done on the fly by moving the amps closer or farther from the boombox while "tracking". It took a lot of trial and error and after a while the results were not as bad you might think.

Then I got a 4-track and that was that.

[rayc]

I started with the cassette player and stereo system as described by Greg. Usually bass & Casio keyboard drum machine loud in the room were the components of the 1st take - THEN guitars etc.
That system worked from 76 to about 87.
THEN it was Yamaha MT100 cassette 4 track - WOW that was a brain explosion.

[WhiskeyJack]

Oh if we are talking analog setup's yea mine was literally just a cassette player that that was able to to function as a two track thing. I used the drums from a keyboard and whatever instruments were in the house at the time. The more we got into it there was a guy whos dad had one of these things: https://www.musiciansfriend.com/consume ... e-recorder

It was bit older version. May not have been the X12 exactly, but it was the most basic of fostex four tracks available in the mid 90's.

This was my very first "digital" set up.

[Minerman]

Bought this thing in November '08, Zoom HD8...This was my first stab at recording...
Check out the pro-quality 'phones & scotch tape wire management...
I still have that slide btw...


I'd bought the strat (& Line 6 Spider Valve about 6 months earlier...I can't remember exactly when I bought the bass, probably around January '09...I'd been using a patch in the HD8 that made a guitar sound like a bass...I still have both the strat & bass...


I used a home stereo for my monitors, & honestly, using that wasn't terrible...I switched to pc recording a few months later, mainly because the built-in drums the HD8 had sucked ass...

[rayc]

In terms of Digital - it was an big to small adapter to plug my guitar into the built in soundcard of a W98 PC with 250meg RAM running Cakewalk Pro Audio. I soon "upgraded" to a Turtlebeach gamer sound card but was still using the aux in.
This is an example of the results...
[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6kG_wImtg[/BBvideo]
Clearly the drums were recorded elsewhere & imported.

[Armistice]

The millennium falcon of recording rigs.

VS880EX was the brains of the operation. Lord only know whats the heck i had going into that mixer. I think it was something different everytime we jammed. We recorded everyone of our band practices. I was a nerd like that i guess. The band was cool that they let me just much around and try different set ups and stuff. Nothing ever sounded good. But i tried man. I tried.

It was a horribly clunky cumbersome piece of kit to use.

Oh! And why yes, those are my monitors on the bottom shelf at knee level. A set of Dell's finest desktop speakers they had to offer at the time. I sold the subwoofer becasue and i shit you not:

I didn't want to have a inaccurate bass response.

I had the 840 - recorded two albums on the thing, before I even owned a microphone. Instrumentals, obviously. Straight out of the acoustic guitar pick up or the multi-effect pedal for electric and into the machine. Sounds awful these days, but I'm still happy with them by and large...

[Lt. Bob]

This was my first ..... I still have it but just grabbed a stock photo.
This was in maybe '72 or so.


It's in my studio right now
I have maybe a couple hundred hours of tapes I did with that thing ..... used various live type mixers for it ..... had a big Yorkville board I used a lot.

Last time I turned it on it still worked.

[rayc]

This was my first ..... I still have it but just grabbed a stock photo.
This was in maybe '72 or so.




Last time I turned it on it still worked.

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