Rain
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And now I too am feeling old...
Look who's turned 50 today:  I read that hipsters are making it hip again. :s
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 17:28:35
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I guess they were clever in their day, but I sure don't miss that gut-wrenching sound of my prized recording being chewed up by the machine.
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Rain
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 17:31:19
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Neither do I.
Hipsters should try learning a complex and insanely fast guitar solo using one of these...
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 17:59:02
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Rain
Neither do I.
Hipsters should try learning a complex and insanely fast guitar solo using one of these...
Simples. Porta Studio One speed control. IIRC it could take a tape down to 0.000000987578687658879876 IPS.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 18:18:05
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I still have my Porta 05 in a box somewhere. I keep it around for sentimental reasons. :)
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 18:20:58
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I have my Porta One two to too
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 18:39:08
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Leadfoot
I still have my Porta 05 in a box somewhere. I keep it around for sentimental reasons. :)
For some reason I'm strangely reluctant to part with this...... 
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Rain
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 18:40:55
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Poor struggling wannabe musicians like myself couldn't afford that stuff. ;)
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Leadfoot
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 18:52:42
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Rain
Poor struggling wannabe musicians like myself couldn't afford that stuff. ;)
I couldn't either. :) My parents splurged and bought it for my 17th birthday back in '87. That's the sentimental part I guess.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 19:01:02
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Can the resurgence of Edison wire recorders be far behind? Sheesh!
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 19:24:29
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Ah, the days when I used my Tascam 424 and some kind of little gadget that put a sync tone on track #4 (that would then bleed through to the other tracks!) so that I could sync it to my (HW) midi sequencer. So if I wanted more than 3 tracks (+ however many virtual midi tracks my synths could muster) I had to do some serious bouncing.
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Leadfoot
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 19:42:05
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Yes, I don't miss all the bouncing, but definitely some fond memories.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 20:39:26
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Rain
Poor struggling wannabe musicians like myself couldn't afford that stuff. ;)
I couldn't either. :) My parents splurged and bought it for my 17th birthday back in '87. That's the sentimental part I guess.
I remember renting one or having a friend lend one to me for a few days sometimes in the early 90s - that plus a guitar w/ a midi pick-up, a Roland sound module and an Roland amp sim. I think I wrote and recorded 7 or 8 songs in 5 days. That's when I realized that that's what I wanted to do - write and record. I eventually inherited a big open reel Sony machine which allowed me to record one track on the left, then bounce it on the right while overdubbing, and back on the left, and so. Until it sounded like one big mess... lol I wrote so much music on that thing, w/ just a guitar, a little Marshall, a Flanger and an Akai XR-10 drum machine - which I never learned to program: I'd have it play generic beats and hit the fill button or a cymbal button w/ my picking hand live as I recorded the basic rhythm guitar track... :s Man, those were the days.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 20:54:28
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Rain
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Rain
Poor struggling wannabe musicians like myself couldn't afford that stuff. ;)
I couldn't either. :) My parents splurged and bought it for my 17th birthday back in '87. That's the sentimental part I guess.
I remember renting one or having a friend lend one to me for a few days sometimes in the early 90s - that plus a guitar w/ a midi pick-up, a Roland sound module and an Roland amp sim. I think I wrote and recorded 7 or 8 songs in 5 days. That's when I realized that that's what I wanted to do - write and record. I eventually inherited a big open reel Sony machine which allowed me to record one track on the left, then bounce it on the right while overdubbing, and back on the left, and so. Until it sounded like one big mess... lol I wrote so much music on that thing, w/ just a guitar, a little Marshall, a Flanger and an Akai XR-10 drum machine - which I never learned to program: I'd have it play generic beats and hit the fill button or a cymbal button w/ my picking hand live as I recorded the basic rhythm guitar track... :s Man, those were the days.
Yep. As primitive as it was back then, it was still new to us at that time. And trying to overcome the limitations caused some really cool discoveries to happen. I remember before I had the 4 track, I had 2 jamboxes. I would record a part on one of them, play it back and record live to the other one, and so on... and so on... Like you said Rain, it was usually a big mess by the time it was done. But there are some good memories of those times, and I'm sure we're better because of them. :)
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 20:58:53
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Although not panned very well I still do have some decent 3rd-gen-bounced songs on cassettes that I imported into SONAR. Someday when I have all the time in the world I may try to beef up some of them. Might ruin the majik though.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 21:05:08
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bapu
Although not panned very well I still do have some decent 3rd-gen-bounced songs on cassettes that I imported into SONAR. Someday when I have all the time in the world I may try to beef up some of them. Might ruin the majik though.
That's cool Bapu! I wish I still had some of mine...
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 22:19:56
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Lead,
I've managed to save every project done on the PortaOne.
I've even got 99% of all my ADAT projects into SONAR too and in most cases I have the MIDI that was sync'd via the BRC using Voyetra Sequence Plus Gold (which I have a running copy of too).
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 22:34:12
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Bapu,
I too had to manage the sync track bleed on adjacent tape tracks. You brought back memories! You could not use the track next the sync track due to bleed and you could not put any percussion tracks next to the sync track or it would get out of sync due to crosstalk.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 22:36:24
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Lead, I've managed to save every project done on the PortaOne. I've even got 99% of all my ADAT projects into SONAR too and in most cases I have the MIDI that was sync'd via the BRC using Voyetra Sequence Plus Gold (which I have a running copy of too).
Man, I wish I would have had the foresight to save my stuff. Good thinking Bap. You'll have to share when you get some the way you like it!
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 22:36:37
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Bapu,
I too had to manage the sync track bleed on adjacent tape tracks. You brought back memories! You could not use the track next the sync track due to bleed and you could not put any percussion tracks next to the sync track or it would get out of sync due to crosstalk.
Rimshot
I was in heaven when I went to three ADATs and the BRC thru the Alesis X-2 console. In another post I mentioned I had an 80-8 for a few years in between the Porta One and the ADATs. I have those projects into SONAR too.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 22:39:38
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bapu
Lead, I've managed to save every project done on the PortaOne. I've even got 99% of all my ADAT projects into SONAR too and in most cases I have the MIDI that was sync'd via the BRC using Voyetra Sequence Plus Gold (which I have a running copy of too).
Man, I wish I would have had the foresight to save my stuff. Good thinking Bap. You'll have to share when you get some the way you like it!
I even have all of the projects I did for my son and his four or five bands who recorded in my stuido from the 80s until the 90s. Recently I did a bass track on one of his songs where his bass player was less than acceptable. Kind of a Natalie & Nat moment in reverse.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/13 23:47:24
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Recently I did a bass track on one of his songs where his bass player was less than acceptable. Kind of a Natalie & Nat moment in reverse.
It's good that you saved all that. Now it's "unforgettable". ;)
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/14 00:24:46
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bapu
Recently I did a bass track on one of his songs where his bass player was less than acceptable.
So it's less less than acceptable now, more or less?
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/14 00:40:56
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/14 07:19:11
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Rain
Poor struggling wannabe musicians like myself couldn't afford that stuff. ;)
I couldn't either, I was just sitting around not doing much of anything and someone gave it to me. These days I refer to it as my Rain moment. ;)
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/14 10:30:35
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Can the resurgence of Edison wire recorders be far behind? Sheesh!
You might be onto something there. If noisy, distorted, limited bandwidth and limited functionality = Vintage, there may indeed be a market. But why stop at wire recorders? Maybe it's time for wax cylinders and acoustical amplification to make a comeback. Or UAD could just make an emulation.
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/14 10:33:36
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/14 12:05:35
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Rain
Look who's turned 50 today:
I read that hipsters are making it hip again. :s
I taped a lot of my roomate's show in Santa Barbara, because of all the imports and foreign music and thing, and the Maxell 120's and TDK 120's lasted all the way until about 2005, when I finally put them all on mp3 highest quality possible. I do need someone to help teach me how to clean a couple of those shows, otherwise the quality is very good. So you know the stuff lasted more than 30 years ... and are alive and well.
As a wise Guy once stated from his holy chapala ... none of the hits, none of the time ... prevents you from becoming just another turkey in the middle of all the other turkeys!
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/17 13:46:09
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Re: And now I too am feeling old...
2013/09/17 14:27:30
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I remember looping beats for my own custom Mixtapes. Then the internet became a thing and they started collecting dust.
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