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Elspode · 10-17-2006, 01:26 PM

I actually had a technochange moment last night. When I first started recording, my partner and I did so on an 8-track Ampex 1" reel to reel analogue deck. Not too long after, we used a Tascam 4-track cassette toy. That was cool, so we moved up to a Tascam 488 8-track cassette multitracker. We did a couple of demos and started an album on that, but then home digital dedicated decks came along, so it was a VS 880. Now, and again in the middle of a project, we're migrating from the VS 880 to computer-based recording (more tracks, lots of nifty processing options, wave editing, stuff you can't do easily or at all on the 880).

It struck me as funny that we'd changed technology five times and we're still trying to get some songs recorded that were written before the first analogue sessions...

10-17-2006, 01:26 PM	#5
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I actually had a technochange moment last night. When I first started recording, my partner and I did so on an 8-track Ampex 1" reel to reel analogue deck. Not too long after, we used a Tascam 4-track cassette toy. That was cool, so we moved up to a Tascam 488 8-track cassette multitracker. We did a couple of demos and started an album on that, but then home digital dedicated decks came along, so it was a VS 880. Now, and again in the middle of a project, we're migrating from the VS 880 to computer-based recording (more tracks, lots of nifty processing options, wave editing, stuff you can't do easily or at all on the 880). It struck me as funny that we'd changed technology five times and we're still trying to get some songs recorded that were written before the first analogue sessions... __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog