{"id":4351,"date":"2011-07-08T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewaudio.com\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:49:17","slug":"audio-recording-equipment-i-cut-my-teeth-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homebrewaudio.co\/wp\/2011\/07\/08\/audio-recording-equipment-i-cut-my-teeth-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Recording Equipment I Cut My Teeth On"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cassette<\/a>Over on the Home Recording Forum<\/a>, someone started a post entitled:\u00a0 All You Old Farts – Born Before 1967.\u00a0 <\/em>Now I don’t know what the significance of 1967 is, but by that definition (born in 1964), I guess I’m an old fart (even though I LOOK fabulous…shyaa).\u00a0 The idea was to get some idea what audio recording equipment we used way back when.
\nAnyway, the question was:
\nCome on tell us what gear were you weaned on?\u00a0 Inspired by the “how do you know so much post”<\/em>
\nHere is my answer, for whatever educational value it is worth:
\nWow, I’m officially an old fart? Do I get a card or something?<\/em>
\n I started out with an old cassette recorder similar to the Hamilton Electronics HA-802 Cassette Player<\/a> and Recorder. I would play a guitar part and sing along (or play another guitar part along for those cool Jim Croce songs) while recording into my brother’s boom box. I used the little built-in condenser mic for both. Then I would play those 2 parts back from the boom box onto my cassette recorder as many times as I needed instruments and harmonies. This hiss was incredible.<\/em>
\n Eventually I graduated to doing the same thing but with better machines, like the ones in entertainment centers, and used a PA mixer in there somewhere. Finally, in 1988, I bought a Tascam Porta 5 4-track cassette recorder<\/a>. That was a life-changer. One more 4-track cassette machine and a Sony DAT machine later, I got my first digital machine, the Roland VS-840. The next year I bought the VS-880 off e-bay for the amazing deal of $1200. That was my primary throughout the early 2000s, when I added outboard gear, monitor speakers (starting with Alesis Monitor Ones…now using the Event TR-8s), separate mic preamp (the Peavy VMP 2 Tube mic preamp, which I still use), compressor<\/a>, EQ<\/a>, etc. Then I made the jump to doing everything in the computer right around 2003, using Adobe Audition<\/a>. Eventually I added Reaper as my DAW and continue to use AA as my editor.<\/em>
\nThat’s about it in a nutshell from this old fart.
\nCheers!
\nKen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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