I got a lot of hours out of this workhorse.

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Fostex X-15-----------------Guitar Tracks----Sonar

I did some early recording with two cassette decks. Never reel to reel though.

Fostex X-15... damn I hated mine
Cool thread.

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Fostex X-15-----------------Guitar Tracks----Sonar

I did some early recording with two cassette decks. Never reel to reel though.

Fostex X-15... damn I hated mine
Cool thread.

The most money I ever wasted on gear ($900) was the Fostex 812 mixer. The thing was so noisy I coudn't even use it for recording. I didn't have the heart to sell it to anyone else so I just gave it away to a band to use in their rehearsal room. Never bought a single Fostex product after that... an almost 20 year boycott and counting. I also talked a lot of other folks out of buying Fostex gear. The message here is there is high risk for a company to let even one bad product go out with their name on it.

1. My first Reel to Reel was a Roberts 1/4" (Tube) with Astatic Mics. I did live in the basement recordings with this and the sound quality was unreal. I bought it at a garage sale.

2. My first studio recorder was a Fostex X-15 when it first came out. Mostly used for guitar and keys but I had used a nice stereo condenser to record acoustic and piano. Aurel exciter used to compensate for cassette tape high loss.

3. Tascam model 58 8 track 1/2" with Tascam M-30 8 channel mixing board. I spend too much time with the 4-track and got decent results and figured it was well worth the investment - but I got married and never really got to use it much ( Still have it ).

4. Many Years passed till just within the last year I am making my way back with MC4. ( Very modest investment so far ).
MC4 + Laptop + Behringer UC202 usb + Tascam M-30 mixing board.

Yesterday I just received a monitoring system from my Brother: ( Event 20/20 Monitors + Bryston 60W per Channel studio quality Stereo Amplifier ). Time to figure out how to set this stuff up.

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but I had an amiga.. 4 channels and a mod tracker when I started.. so that was my first multi track I guess.hehe

Man, I thought that was so cool. Amiga 500, the 2000, then 3000 with '040 cpu... It was so easy to make good sounding rhythm tracks (for me). The step sequencer is kind of a step in that way.

I think I had one of those tascam porta 1's to start. Used that for a long time until I got cakewalk home studio xl (must have been about '99). I used it for a couple years just to make midi tracks that I'd play through my korg m3r. It was a big revelation to me that HS2002 did audio too (hsxl may have too, but I never did that with it). Those cakewalk people and their upgrade offers.... Now I'm waiting for 8.3.

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1. My first Reel to Reel was a Roberts 1/4" (Tube) with Astatic Mics. I did live in the basement recordings with this and the sound quality was unreal. I bought it at a garage sale.

2. My first studio recorder was a Fostex X-15 when it first came out. Mostly used for guitar and keys but I had used a nice stereo condenser to record acoustic and piano. Aurel exciter used to compensate for cassette tape high loss.

3. Tascam model 58 8 track 1/2" with Tascam M-30 8 channel mixing board. I spend too much time with the 4-track and got decent results and figured it was well worth the investment - but I got married and never really got to use it much ( Still have it ).

4. Many Years passed till just within the last year I am making my way back with MC4. ( Very modest investment so far ).
MC4 + Laptop + Behringer UC202 usb + Tascam M-30 mixing board.

Yesterday I just received a monitoring system from my Brother: ( Event 20/20 Monitors + Bryston 60W per Channel studio quality Stereo Amplifier ). Time to figure out how to set this stuff up.

I think the Tascam M-30 and Behringer UC202 are going to cause some disappointment. Even an M-Audio interface with built in preamps would sound better then those things. Give it a try and see what you think. The software and monitors are great stuff but the other two things will hold you back a bit on quality.

Gary.... that looked like the first reel to reel I had too.

In college, I had a Dokorder 8100 4track/2channel reel-to-reel and my roommate had a Dokorder 8140 4track/4channel reel-to-reel. We used to bounce tracks around, create tape loops and engage in other general craziness instead of studying. Them were the days. Back in the late 60s, it was an old Sony reel-to-reel with sound-on-sound capability. I forgot the model number...along with many other things.
JV

wow... fun stuff!

In college I had use of a Crown 800 which had all sorts of cool features for doing all sorts of tricks.

After college I had to find something I could afford, ended up with a Fostex X-15... not serious in terms of audio quality, though you could do a decent job if you were attentive, but it was so easy to use that I wrote and recorded a ton of stuff.

Then it was a Teac 80-8 and then an MCI JH-16 for multi-track, and an Otari MX-5050 and an Ampex AG-440 for stereo.

I still have all of them, and I still use the MCI. I was still using the X-15 as a scratch pad until very recently. The two track and 8 track machines still get work for transfers, but that's about it.

I never did get around to digital tape, I used both the ADAT and the DA-88 in other peoples studios, and they were OK, but both seemed plagued with annoying problems.

On the computer side I had a C-64 with a cartridge made by Sequential Circuits driving a DrumTracks and a MultiTracks. Next was an Amiga which was eventually equipped with a Studio16 AD-516 card and that served me well for a very long time, mostly because I was still using tape for audio and the computer for MIDI - mostly.

When I finally jumped ship CWPA V6 was just around the corner, and I've been a Cakewalk fan (mostly) since. These days I have a Frontier Design Dakota/Montana/Sierra combo and two Tango 8 channel converter boxes. I'd like more channels, but I can't justify them just yet.

My, what a long strange trip...

Here is my first recorder


Wilko