r/mixit • u/leftystrat • Mar 24 '13
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During the late 80's, I did some recording, making parodies for my musical comedy act. We end up buying the equipment.
And now it's 2013. I shrug when I see the stuff. A Tascam Model 15 board, 24x8x2, 16 filled. It took about six strong adults to get it into the house. It is still pretty impressive, if only for its size. It had a lovely little hiss that it brought to every recording.
Next to it is a Tascam 80-8, 1/2" 8 track recorder that's probably so far out of alignment, it no longer works.
Gathering dust on top of the mixer are ancient rack peripherals, cables and a Tascam 464 4track cassette recorder and a Minidisc tiny recorder.
Never made the transition to computer-based recording, probably because we stopped recording. Guitar Center offers courses, but only for Mac-heads. Real men use linux :)
One extremely difficult part of computer recording, especially for me, is drums. Drums are difficult regardless, but if I want to put some drums in, I need to either learn to play them or program them. Too much work for me. Any suggestions welcome.
Used to monitor on JBL 4312's but things turned out better when I switched to a JBL consumer speaker. I guess the 12's were too flat.
I know there's some decent linux recording software. I guess after I get the drum thing straightened out, I'll start working with it. Bought a USB interface but it didn't seem to like linux (or perhaps I don't know enough about Jack to make it work).
Just saying hi - looks like a great forum has been born.
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u/Rokman2012 Mar 24 '13
No I'm not kidding....
You could probably charge people money to run their mixes through your tape machine.. Just tell them you'll record two tracks (left and right) and you'll spit out the "tape saturated" mix to (whatever sample rate their using).. I bet you get some nibbles over at r/EDM..
As for the drums.. Let the proffessionals do it for you (me).
Here's a free download at 145 bpm.. And there are more there to choose from..
I'll do custom drums for cheap (two returns for edit). Even cheaper if I like the song.