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*laff* Sub you are so passionate!

Hmmmm... I COULD just sing and play into the cassette mic on the regular ol' cassette player - but then I get that hissing noise of the tape goin' round and round (yes, I've tried this!!!) heheh.

Home recording is to save the cost of studio recording and allowing the most flexibility for continuous experimentation to get exactly what I want even if what I want changes from take to take - or in the middle of the take, even.

Cost of digital recorder vs. analog recorder - not really an issue, I'm not giving the analog a whirl becasue the digital recorders are 50 bucks more or anything.

I'm verrrry simple. One guitar. Vocal. Harmony. Percussion of some type (could be cow bell, could be hand clapping, could be tamborine) I've added this up to... hmmmm... only 4 trax!

Or I could do vox & harmoniez and then mix down onto one track then do two more and mix onto one track then.... isn't that what the crazy analog cassette users do? I'm not even that motivated though - nice and simple for me! Raw, real.

I use the Shure Beta 87A - needs phantom power - I just plug it thru a mixer, and problem solved - for that matter I can plug my guitar thru the mixer also if I want - although

I know yr gonna love this

For almost every song, I like to record the guitar and vocal at the saaaame time - and I like to mic the guitar, not run it in directly.

I have thought about putting some bass on maybe a song or twwwwoooo.

This is where my experimenting comes in - but it's only a few songs werhe I may have some overlapping vocals or lots of percussion stuff and hand clapping, etc., noises, maybe bass, extra harmonies, etc. These I will play with last I think, after I get the more simpler one's down.

I put very little reverb on the vocal, and I play and sing it correctly or I do it over, I absolutely will not take parts of one take or parts of another and stick them together or do it in pieces in any way. It's a true performance or it's scrapped and I do it over.

This is prob why I have no cd.

My friend has a thing that takes the tape and plays it up onto a cd track and then... well I guess I have to do the thing that levels the sound so it's ok for broadcasting, etc. and whatever else u do to send it off to diskmakers to do.

Or diskmakers has that 'sweetening' thing where they fix the levels - but then my work is in the hands of another.

I really was hoping to find some enthusiasts on here that USE the analog cassette recorders and would spill forth some of their favorite things that they do with this process, or how they get it from taped trax up to a cd & mp3's - I guess I have to hunt them down in other places on the internet. But it was worth a try on here.

If it comes out at ALL I'm totally gonna throw it up and say''' THIS IS WHAT I WAS WORKING FOR I LOVE IT IT'S PERFECT!!!

But no guarantees u'll hear it and think the same...

Still, I'm gonna give that a try too

Or I'll be back sayin'... um... Sub.... what digital recorder do u recommend for the beginner

and u can laugh and laugh

and I will dig right into the digital stuff and figure out what I need to do to get what I'm looking for. And if I don't find it THERE... well, dammit. I'll worry about that later - like next months rent

Anna
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