Home taping is skill in music

[hirez]

Up on that there FB right now are a few tracks from the other band I was in. (the) Total Bureau lasted for, um, about a year and then stopped in unfortunate circumstances. Being a pallbearer is a shit job.

Anyway. I have a few C90s from one or more Portastudios and I'm poking about at recovering the alleged songs.

My feeling is that I can scrape them off tape with a reasonably good cassette machine, hope that the azimuths on the various bits of kit were more or less aligned, reverse the tracks that come off tape backwards, apply rudimentary processing (Although Bob alone knows how one would un-DBX a track. Piss about with a parametric EQ until it stopped sounding shite, I think) and then somehow persuade all the recovered tracks to start at the right time so as to perform some kind of mixdown. Or just leave them as components.

I'm guessing Audacity, since Goldwave doesn't immediately appear to do multitrack.

Unless, of course, you know different.

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

...or you could borrow my Portastudio.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ooer. I had no idea. What flavour?

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Mostly available in Lancashire, so that's probably cabbage and black pudding flavour.

I'll haul it Southwards whenever.

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

I'm hearing good things about Reaper (http://www.cockos.com/reaper/).

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Cockos? That sounds like a domain that yer man Lamb would own.

Anyway. Yes. Looks like a happy thing.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I still favour Cool Edit Pro over Audacity, but I guess it's what you're used to.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I'm liking the tracks on FB. Kind of a Devo-versus-King Crimson thing. In my head, anyhow.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That was just Withy noodling about with a four-track. It now strikes me that 'Disc of mods' was really rather Krautrock.

He was startlingly talented.