Back in 1980, I was in the Air Force and stationed in lonely and desolate northern Maine (Loring AFB).
The rec center had an isolation booth with two reel-to-reel tape recorders in it. I would spend hours over their with my guitars trying to figure out how to bounce sound from one machine to the other so I could build multi-track recordings of myself. It proved to be an impossible task given the limitations of the machines, my knowledge and my talent. The only song I really knew all of the way through was "Peggy Sue." So I tried over and over to record that as a multi-part song. Not until tonight have I had the ability to try mult-tracking again. For Christmas, my parents gave me a Tascam MF-P01 Portastudio -- a little four-track analog recorder. The first thing I did was record myself doing some Buddy Holly. Below is a link to my version of "Not Fade Away." It's not -- I don't want to mislead you -- a great performance. I think I did OK with the guitar and lead vocals, but my voice isn't well suited to the background vocals and I had to make several takes on the backgrounds before just deciding to stick with what I finally stuck with. Also, there's some line noise between my stereo and my computer, so the mix down isn't as clean I would like. But, what the hell, here it is: http://www.hbo3.com/notfade.mp3. H. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
