When I first started out I ______________

When I first started out on guitar:

I thought the zoom 505 was kickass.
I though the digitech rp14 was awesome.
I thought as long as the guitar had humbuckers it was awesome.
I though as long as it was at least a half stack it was awesome (didn't matter what amp or cab though).

In my defense though, I didn't have any buddies or any mentors with the guitar. I started when I was 11. I rattled through that alone. Bought a fuck load of horrible gear along the way as well.

When I started out recording I:

Didn't know what the hell phase was let alone knowing when to invert the polarity.

Had no clue how to get good sounds.

Had no clue what went into a good recording.
 
When I first started out I tracked everything on ADAT in a rented studio, then I recorded every track in pairs into my PC through the SoundBlaster Card so I could mix with Cool Edit Pro. Of course I had to manually align each track.
 
I started out on cool edit pro with an inbuilt soundcard, recorded drum loops off my digitech rp50 and used that for the guitar tone as well!
Then i moved onto using a soundscape sshdr1+ setup and spent hours and hours sat in the attic with it learning how to use eq to make the sounds i wanted. Somehow completely ignored compression and limiting, but i made some mixes i thought sounded ok at the time (god knows where they are now!)
 
I used to put a dual tape deck boombox between the drums and guitar amp. Jam. Play along to the tape while recording on the other deck. Switch tapes and repeat. Virtually endless high quality multitrack functionality.
 
Well when I started out we had to walk uphill both ways to the studio carrying the water that we poured into the watermill to power the tape deck that only recorded one note at a time that we then had to splice together to make a single chord that we then added to the sound of falling rain hitting the tin roof we called a drum beat, all to make the fist second of our song. Things were tough back then.

Just kidding - I do like reminiscing however. :Smug::heh::saint:
 
1993 - 80's Fender Squire HH Strat, Gorilla amp and a Pignose amp. 70's Washburn P-Bass copy, 70's Peavey Mark III head, Peavey 2x15 cabinet. (I was 10)

1996 - Borrowed a Peavey Bass-Fex unit from my dads friend, plugged that into the Bass amp...that became my guitar amp. Put a Duncan Distortion in my strat...before I knew that it really wouldnt give me distortion like a pedal would.

1997 - Parents bought me a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 1x12 tube amp. Started messin around with Sound Forge. Bought a Boss NS-2.

1998 - Parents bought me an Ibanez JS100...I bought a Digitech RP-3.

2000 - I bought a old Crate GX-120 (or whatever it was) head and an ancient Randall 4x12 cab. Bought an Ibanez RG350DX. Started messing around with Fruity Loops & Acid Pro.

2001 - Often used my RP-3 into the Hot Rod (on clean channel), slaved out to the 4x12. Made my first attempt of a demo using a Tascam 4 Track as a mixer into my pc sound card. It was terrible. Got a Tama Granstar 5pc kit to start learning on.

2002 - Traded in the Crate/Randall half stack towards a Peavey Ultra half stack. Bought EMG's for my RG using the money I made from being a juror for the Nathan Bar-Jonah trial.

2003 - Peavey Ultra got blown up when the washing machine above (practiced in the basement of a house) dumped water down the inside of the wall and straight down into my amp...unknowingly, I came in and turned it on...and it fried. Borrowed a fucked up JCM800 for a gig a week later. Got an Ibanez RG750DX.

2004 - My parents helped me acquire a Mesa Triaxis/Mesa 2:90/G-Major/2 Carvin Legacy 4x12's. I was in the process of a long-overdue moving out since my parents kept guilting me into staying at home with them. Thier last attempt to keep me there was by promising me the amp I always wanted...which I totally capitalized on, and moved out anyways. Borrowed an Ibanez K7 from a friend for a bit. Bought an Ibanez AX7221 so he had one to use that he'd enjoy more.

2005 - Bought a Rogue 5-string. Bought a Fender 5-string. Bought a bunch of random studio and p.a. gear from a friend who had a "studio" and was not making enough to live off of with it like he thought he would. This included 2 M-Audio Delta66 cards, so I could now do 8 tracks at a time. Bought an Ibanez acoustic.

2006 - Split with my wife, sold my drums...never got paid for half of it (I am less trusting now, and I'm still in a band with the dude). Sold some of that gear back to the aforementioned dude so he could try having a studio again...never got paid for it (even less trusting...), he never started the studio again. Bought some more drum crap, thinking I was going to put together a better kit...still never have. Started hanging on the Sneap forum. Got back together with my wife, GAS put on hold.

2007 - Aforementioned friend mails me an ESP EC-1000 as a "thanks for being patient" gift. (He ended up dying this year, so this was the only payment I got from him...it will suffice). Got a Firepod. Started doing more extensive research, mostly on this forum.

2008 - Bought another firepod. Started doing recordings for other people, having them buy me gear instead of paying me cash. Got an SM7, 2 sets of Ddrum triggers, a headphone amp, and some other shit.

2009 - Won a Peavey Transtube Supreme head off ebay...other than that, nothing this year.

yep...there ya have it...
 
When I started out I was recording on a boombox with the built-in mic, moved the tape over to the family stereo, played together with it and recorded onto a second tape on the boombox, and so on. Needless to say, it sounded absolutely amazing of course.
 
tgs said:
When I started out I was recording on a boombox with the built-in mic, moved the tape over to the family stereo, played together with it and recorded onto a second tape on the boombox, and so on. Needless to say, it sounded absolutely amazing of course.
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hahaha i did the same thing when i was 14. all improve blues solos. god i wish i could listen to those tapes now. they must have sounded awful!
 
When I first started out, I turned everything into a math problem and wound up getting sidetracked by pretty diagrams for months before returning to a mix. Since then, precisely fucking nothing has changed.

Jeff
 
When i started playing guitars, my amp was my father's stereo. To have distortion, i simply turned it until the speakers were screaming. As for recording, i started using a little tape recorder my father had since i was just a cell inside his nuts. I tried finding the best place i could to record my band's rehearsals - of course, it sucked. Then my father gave me my Delta 1010, i recorded some friends, and some years later i am getting poorer each day eheheh
 
JBroll said:
When I first started out, I turned everything into a math problem and wound up getting sidetracked by pretty diagrams for months before returning to a mix. Since then, precisely fucking nothing has changed.

Jeff
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:lol:
 
JBroll said:
When I first started out, I turned everything into a math problem and wound up getting sidetracked by pretty diagrams for months before returning to a mix. Since then, precisely fucking nothing has changed.

Jeff
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Goddamn I'd love watching you working on a mix.
Mathematizing the shit out of everything.

Huge props for the A Mathematician's Lament essay you posted on here a while ago by the way. Gonna print it for my teacher to see what he thinks about it.


Cheers :kickass:
 
When I first started out recording music...

I was around 7 or 8 years old, playing on my grandmother's Wurlitzer dual keyboard organ (simiilar to this one)using the preset drum beats, playing basslines with my feet, chording on the bottom keys and playing melodies/leads on the top keys. The organ had a direct line-out into an old cassette recorder that sat on a slide-out shelf underneath the bottom row of keys. I'd listen to the playback and ad live auto-harp or various percussion depending on if they were "put away" or not :lol: looking back now I kinda feel sorry for my poor grandparents but it was heaps of fun at the time. Hopefully the old cassettes are still at my mother's place back in the US and haven't been damaged or destroyed.
One of my coolest memories of grandma was when I got my first acoustic guitar and she played "drums" on these plastic tennis-racket style toys that made an awful ringing sound like an un-tuned floor tom. I was learning to play enter sandman and recorded our jam session on an old cassette recorder with a built in mic.
 
Jeff... turning the mix into a math problem? How the fuck... :O

Anyway, when I started out (1,5 years ago now!) I used my newly cracked Waves C4 as an EQ... and yes, I really did think it was an EQ "with a twist" and I had read about people on this forum using the C4 a lot so... yeah. Embarrassing.
 
When I first started out I... had no idea most bands don't have a fucking clue about what you need for a decent recording, or playing live for that matter

When I first started out I... had no idea I would mix so many shitty bands
 
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