Mar 16, 2011 03:53 pm I sold them off to the next generation of recording enthusiasts...actually, not a week ago I sold of my final relic, my DAT machine.
What did you do with your old recording gear?
Posted on Mar 16, 2011 03:03 pm
Bigbluesman
Quasimojo
Member Since: Nov 08, 2010
I'm sure many of you had 4 track cassette units and reel to reel units. What did you guys do with yours? I have a couple different old tascam cassette recorders. I keep hanging on to them, and I don't even know why.
[ Back to Top ]
Mar 16, 2011 03:53 pm I sold them off to the next generation of recording enthusiasts...actually, not a week ago I sold of my final relic, my DAT machine.
Mar 17, 2011 09:06 am Do think that stuff will have a "vintage" value in years to come? Or am I just hoarding crap that I don't need?
Mar 17, 2011 09:08 am Very little of it do I see any real value in...I mean, a few advancements that were maybe "the first of it's kind" or something, like maybe the first model of portable cassette 4 track, or some such thing, maybe...beyond that, it's just antiquated technology.
In my humble opinion.
Mar 17, 2011 09:17 am My 4-track got donated to a friend that was getting into recording at the time... now that dudes rig blows mine away in both function and form. Nice to see, actually.
dB... Our acoustic bands album was recorded in a DAT-based studio. As I recall the sound quality was impressive, but the ease of little things we take for granted these days was not there.(head alignment,click tracks, time lost formatting the media, etc...) Everything is so damn 'easy' now'a days. lol It's nice because it keeps the creative-flow of things better, yet because of this there are some peeps out there that don't have the latent patients to maintain a solid approach to the process.
I don't miss my 4-track days, but I am sure glad I had them. = )
Mar 17, 2011 09:20 am Yeah, the DAT had it's place, and was really decent for premastering back then.
I really enjoyed my old cassette 4 and 8 tracks back then...but felt a lot more pressure to get the whole song right in one pass. :-)
Mar 17, 2011 09:48 am Yep, nailing those takes were alot more important then. One of those traits I tried to keep from those days, however I must admit it is nice to be able to comp those in our band that don't drag such antiquated thought patterns around with them. lol
I once had a bass player quit because after hearing him brag about nailing a take, (in a sesssion 2 hrs longer than the song) I had to let him know just how much he was actually comp'd. He was very defensive about it because he had no idea he was wandering around the downbeat for 2+ hrs.
EDIT: Happy ending... he's still with us.
Mar 17, 2011 01:10 pm lol about 100 years ago, when I was a kid, I had 2 regular old tape recorders, and play to one of them, then play along with it, recording with the other, and back and forth. The quality was terrible, but it never stopped us..
Mar 17, 2011 03:08 pm Right on! Went and I used to do that too... like you said, terrible!
We actually held on to that stuff, and I stumbled accross it the other day. Still terrible! lol Found a version of us doing The Four Horseman sans drummer... such butchery!
Mar 18, 2011 01:55 am GUILTY!!! my first "engineer" type gig was recording me and my best friend on a karaoke machine that had two mic inputs, two tape decks AND reverb!.....bouncing tracks came purely instinctively (my 12 year old mind was already on track, pun intended) and our first project to tackle was bohemian rhapsody....as my logic was at the time "if they can do it, so can we"....i don't even know what happened to that...then i got my first real peace of gear my Tascam Portastudio....oh man i get all fuzzy inside just thinikin' about that grey beast with all the knobs....who'da thunk i'd have more knobs then than i do now!! haha but yeah ....sold it (or it's in storage somewhere, i couldn't tell ya)...then i went digital with the roland zip recorders (now worth next to nothing)...ebay'ed the F outta that.
|
Related Forum Topics: |
If you would like to participate in the forum discussions, feel free to register for your free membership.