When I first started out I ______________
- Thread starter Morgan C
- Start date
hahaha, i have the 707 version..and like Sickan and Gareth.. i used acoustica beatcraft with my zoom pedal(i thought i was tone king...hahahaha) into adobe audtion.
i have now learnt my ways! thank god.
Ermz
¯\(°_o)/¯
I plugged my guitar into the PC directly via a Marshall Jackhammer pedal into a somewhat cheap 1/4" mono to 1/8" stereo plug. Took me a while to work out why it only came out of the left speaker. I subsequently also wondered why my guitar sounded so bad. Around this time my only understanding of an EQ's purpose was to use it for FX. Also, an FFT filter was 'that thing that gives you telephone voice'.
lolzgreg
Cereal Shipping Sneapster
gabriel g.
Member
Sweetnothing
¯\(º_o)/¯
When I started out, I spent zillions of bucks on cassette tapes.
When I started out, used the built in preamps on my yamaha mt50
When I started out, I used a panasonic stereo to monitor the recordings
When I started out, used the built in preamps on my yamaha mt50
When I started out, I used a panasonic stereo to monitor the recordings
ItsAFugazzi
boat is boat.
i haven't even started yet
StefTD
Member
I programmed my drums in Guitar pro, exported them as .wav.
Than I put them into Cool Edit Pro, opened a second track, recorded my guitar through
my POD (through 1/4" to 1/8" thingy into onboard soundcard)
and recorded some growling over the whole mess with an old (and I mean, like 20 years old, and that
was almost 10 years ago) karoke mic.
So and the really emberassing thing is, in the beginning, when I started playing guitar
I didn't even know, that distorted guitar sounds are created with an amp with
a overdriven channel or something like that, I thought it had to do something with the playing
style or pick, so I bought this:
and used the marked area to get a "distorted" sound out of it.
I think now you know why my father hated it when I played guitar,
and at that time I thought all songs were just powerchords but I still hit all strings.
Than I put them into Cool Edit Pro, opened a second track, recorded my guitar through
my POD (through 1/4" to 1/8" thingy into onboard soundcard)
and recorded some growling over the whole mess with an old (and I mean, like 20 years old, and that
was almost 10 years ago) karoke mic.
So and the really emberassing thing is, in the beginning, when I started playing guitar
I didn't even know, that distorted guitar sounds are created with an amp with
a overdriven channel or something like that, I thought it had to do something with the playing
style or pick, so I bought this:
and used the marked area to get a "distorted" sound out of it.
I think now you know why my father hated it when I played guitar,
and at that time I thought all songs were just powerchords but I still hit all strings.
grywolf627
Member
(Showing my age) There was no internet to read tips and things...only various magazine articles, and later, my recording school.
Started on a borrowed
Went to school and used MCI's similar to these:
Then finally bought
Later upgraded to
Then bought
where I am today.
Started on a borrowed
Went to school and used MCI's similar to these:
Then finally bought
Later upgraded to
Then bought
where I am today.
Jind
Grrrr!!! (I'm a bear)
- Mar 7, 2009
- 2,542
- 0
- 36
Nothing odd in regards to audio engineering, but I have some Doh! moments back when starting out on guitar. To put this in perspective this was in the days before the Internet/World Wide Web (pre - 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee wrote his proposal for what would become the WWW) so I'm now dating myself. I was 15 years old and a big Maiden/Priest/Sabbath fan - I wanted to learn to play electric guitar so I got a summer job and earned enough for my first guitar and amp. I had no idea what I was doing. With $350 dollars in hand I went down to the local mom & pop music store and being the shy kid I was did not wan't to ask any questions, did not want to try anything out in front of people, just wanted to make a purchase and head home. Well, I ended up buying a vintage white Takamine (yes, they used to build electric guitars at one time) solid body with dual humbuckers for $200 and then came the amp.
Once again - I preface this by saying I had no way of researching these types of things back then - pre-Internet remember. So, my basis for the little knowledge I had about amps was that my idols stood in front of them on stage. I had no idea how they worked, who made great ones, who made crap. So - for $150 dollars I bought a Solid State (I know this now - back then I had no idea there were different types of amps) Dean Markley amp head (yes, they made amps back then) - I can't for the life of me remember the model number but please note that I BOUGHT AN AMP HEAD - that's right a head.
I was so please with my purchase I went home and then it hit me - it did not have speakers.
I could not afford to buy a cabinet so I saved for a few weeks, bought a huge 15" speaker down at the local Radio Shack, and built my own 1x15 cab. I put that think up on a stand in my room with that head I bought and with the Takamine guitar - I learned how to play the metal I love.
By the way - I still miss that guitar, that head, and my homemade cabinet which I sold several years later to a friend, the money from which I used to buy my first serious instrument - A 1987 BC Rich Gunslinger with the crackle Tony MacAlpine finish (yet another guitar I kick myself daily for selling).
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Once again - I preface this by saying I had no way of researching these types of things back then - pre-Internet remember. So, my basis for the little knowledge I had about amps was that my idols stood in front of them on stage. I had no idea how they worked, who made great ones, who made crap. So - for $150 dollars I bought a Solid State (I know this now - back then I had no idea there were different types of amps) Dean Markley amp head (yes, they made amps back then) - I can't for the life of me remember the model number but please note that I BOUGHT AN AMP HEAD - that's right a head.
I was so please with my purchase I went home and then it hit me - it did not have speakers.
I could not afford to buy a cabinet so I saved for a few weeks, bought a huge 15" speaker down at the local Radio Shack, and built my own 1x15 cab. I put that think up on a stand in my room with that head I bought and with the Takamine guitar - I learned how to play the metal I love.
By the way - I still miss that guitar, that head, and my homemade cabinet which I sold several years later to a friend, the money from which I used to buy my first serious instrument - A 1987 BC Rich Gunslinger with the crackle Tony MacAlpine finish (yet another guitar I kick myself daily for selling).
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
TravisW
Member
My first attempts at multitrack recording involved an old GE tape recorder and a little handheld tape recorder. I'd record myself playing (a Lotus Strat copy through a Crate G-10) into the first tape recorder, then I'd play that back and play along while recording on the second tape recorder.
That was pretty lo-fi. By the time I was done, it sounded like a 13th generation cassette copy of a Venom album.
That was pretty lo-fi. By the time I was done, it sounded like a 13th generation cassette copy of a Venom album.
grywolf627
Member
Oooh...that was a nice one.
Don't worry about dating yourself. When you were 15, I was starting recording school. My first "amp" as it were (I had no money for things) was DOD distortion pedal, into the mic preamp (overdriving it all the way) of a RadioShack analog "reverb" unit, into a graphic EQ, into a Yamaha one channel (clean only) practice amp. And the sound it made brought the metalz and made everyone jealous.
Dexter_prog
New Metal Member
This, but with a metal zone. The "why only on the left" thing took me a lot to figure out to.
plague_rider
Coffee
When i started out, i was at college, not even doing a production course
We recorded to tape in the first year cause we hadn't been shown pro-tools properly and our pro-tools setup was only 8 inputs (i got good at punching people in on tape :zombie
We taped toilet paper to the drum skins to dampen them
I used to turn the Gain to 11
Used an SM58 rather than a 57
Thought that the joe meek outboard compressor was the greatest thing in the world
Thought that Line6 Amp-Farm on Pro-Tools was the greatest thing in the world
uke:
i think the one thing i've carried on to this day is the knowledge of mic positioning when mic'ing up a guitar amp/bass amp/drum kit
this forum has helped build up a lot of the knowledge beyond what i've learned over the years
We recorded to tape in the first year cause we hadn't been shown pro-tools properly and our pro-tools setup was only 8 inputs (i got good at punching people in on tape :zombie
We taped toilet paper to the drum skins to dampen them
I used to turn the Gain to 11
Used an SM58 rather than a 57
Thought that the joe meek outboard compressor was the greatest thing in the world
Thought that Line6 Amp-Farm on Pro-Tools was the greatest thing in the world
uke:i think the one thing i've carried on to this day is the knowledge of mic positioning when mic'ing up a guitar amp/bass amp/drum kit
this forum has helped build up a lot of the knowledge beyond what i've learned over the years
Similar threads
