Basement
Recordings
The
place:
A 10' x 14' basement room,
The mission:
Jam, write, record new songs.
Equipment used:
Using the Akai Linn Drum
machine
Sequencer (to the left of the keyboards) which
recorded keyboards by the then new computer language MIDI,
MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
This is a drum sequencer and sampling computer, which
records up to 99 tracks,
programmed from a
pad set
of
electronic trigger pads, it's
own pads, or even
an
electronic
keyboard.
It
hooks up to additional keyboards and sound
modules, to
play back these tracks of
recorded MIDI
performances. It
stores them all on a 3.5" floppy disk.
I synced
it up to the Tascam Studio 8, 8-track reel-to-reel tape machine, so "virtual"
tracks
of keyboards will play back synced-up
to the tape tracks of guitar, bass and real drums and voices.
Syncing takes one tape track(#8) pre-recorded with SMPTE, which is an
acronym for
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
Over the years I
have found myself
switching formats and machines which
I would use to
make
my
music. This machine
was my
main
writing workstation
for several
years,
and hundreds of
songs have been written with it, waiting to be
finished as it had been
sitting in
the
basement in
need of repair...
I
took it to Virtual Sound Technology in Pomona to do the job, and it is
up and running
again.
Here
are some tunes recorded this way(1995);
A
Little Bit Of Hope
Top of The World
Spell Of Gloom
Take The World
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