Hello, I'm Tim
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45 years ago! I'm curious what you were recording with then. Mono, stereo, or did you have an actual 4-track or some other fancy machine?
In the fall of 1983 (a mere 41.5 years ago), I moved to Los Angeles, and couldn't take my Hammond M3 organ with me, so I traded it for a Dokorder reel to reel 4-track. It was cool, but I couldn't afford a mixer to go with it (how little I knew back then), so I couldn't take full advantage of it.
Thanks for the hello back!!!
Like you I started out with a 4 Track reel to reel. I owned a sound system so I used my 12ch board and snake with it. I learned alot with that setup. At the end of the 80's I moved to a sequencer (notator) and 8 track 1/4' reel to reel synced up with SMPTE. Had a 24/8 board and a room full of outboard gear. Eventually moved to digital and now use Logic. An entire room of outboard gear reduced to a mac mini!!!!!!!!!
Like you I started out with a 4 Track reel to reel. I owned a sound system so I used my 12ch board and snake with it. I learned alot with that setup. At the end of the 80's I moved to a sequencer (notator) and 8 track 1/4' reel to reel synced up with SMPTE. Had a 24/8 board and a room full of outboard gear. Eventually moved to digital and now use Logic. An entire room of outboard gear reduced to a mac mini!!!!!!!!!
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PaulieDC
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Welcome Tim!
40+ years a local fellow musician had that Tascam 4 track and I went over to his house and drooled. My first multitrack was the cassette Fostex 4 track (Portastudio I think?), followed by my first keyboard Korg Poly 800. I was a Marshall-stack guitar player with an SM57 so I didn't know much about the Poly 800 other than presets, lol. Then in '87 I made the investment in this beauty, the Tascam 388:
I did a rock album in my drummer's basement, bounced drums down to stereo, squeezed in guitar, BV, LV, keys and bass and my only FX were an SPX90 and an Alesis Compressor which I learned how to use from reading Home & Studio Recording magazine because we had nothing else. And we all loved it back then, multitrack in our homes. Now we all gripe if Cubase or Logic doesn't implement the same feature that Reaper has, and younger (and older) people complain in forums that we have to pay a company for the next version of their software.
I'm so happy they invented the DAW. My life has become so much easier. I get done in minutes what used to take hours or even days. ALL those hours tweeking midi parts to get the feel right, looking at that boring Notator screen until my eyes went blurry!!!!!!! KIds these days, sheesh, they don't know how good they got it!!!Welcome Tim!
40+ years a local fellow musician had that Tascam 4 track and I went over to his house and drooled. My first multitrack was the cassette Fostex 4 track (Portastudio I think?), followed by my first keyboard Korg Poly 800. I was a Marshall-stack guitar player with an SM57 so I didn't know much about the Poly 800 other than presets, lol. Then in '87 I made the investment in this beauty, the Tascam 388:
I did a rock album in my drummer's basement, bounced drums down to stereo, squeezed in guitar, BV, LV, keys and bass and my only FX were an SPX90 and an Alesis Compressor which I learned how to use from reading Home & Studio Recording magazine because we had nothing else. And we all loved it back then, multitrack in our homes. Now we all gripe if Cubase or Logic doesn't implement the same feature that Reaper has, and younger (and older) people complain in forums that we have to pay a company for the next version of their software.
Brice J. Bentley
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I know how you feel. A couple years into working with my first DAW, I remember kicking back in my studio chair one night and just marveling at everything I was able to do compared to just a few years earlier. It was a life changing tool.
I'm so much more productive. I decided this go round with home recording that I focus on getting things done, rather than just fiddle with the tech. The DAW has helped me accomplish that and then some!!!!!
