Some Festive Experimenting? Sure why not!

http://youtu.be/D6nM93X2thQ?list=UUR-SDPhbM05jenSL9ZALUhQ

The next Trux'o'Flux Tape Echo may be a lot smaller if this experiment develops further!...

A new recording! AT LAST!

Here is what I have been doing in the Musical Creative sense lately, between getting high on Solder fumes :-). Studio Silo had been donated a lovely 1980s Tascam 244 4-track cassette recorder this Summer, so I set about recording a number of songs on it from the drums upwards. Here is the first one complete, with drum mishaps and bass misfrets included! :-)

https://soundcloud.com/atomicanalog/vinny-vamos-the-little-dog-4-track-demo

To get geeky on it now, as that is the theme of this blog, here is the recording process I forced myself to take:

1 - Record guide drum machine along with rough vocals & guitar to tracks 3 & 4

2 - Record Stereo drums (gated kick & snare & 2x Overheads, all buss-compressed) to tracks 1 & 2

3 - Record double-tracked guitars to tracks 3 & 4

4 - Bounce Drums & Guitars onto nearby Stereo Cassette deck while playing bass live as it mixed

5 - Bounce cassette mix back in onto tracks 1 & 2

6 - Record first vocal onto track 4

7 - Perform a 2nd vocal for double-tracking and mix it with track 4 while recording to track 3

8 - Record lead guitar to track 4

9 - Mix four tracks to stereo

10 - Have a strong cuppa and listen back!

11 - Repeat steps 1 through 10 until desired result is achieved (or close enough!)