1st studio

[Greeny]

^^^^ And it has a tape counter!!! I used to love watching those go round lol

[64Guitars]

The Fostex X-15 was my first multitrack. But my first recorder was this Realistic (Radio Shack) portable reel-to-reel recorder.



It was pretty cool actually (for its time). I've still got some tapes from it of me and my friend Sean jamming in his basement (Sean now plays drums in Burton Cummings' band). I also took it to a Humble Pie concert and recorded the show. The opening act was Groundhogs. I've still got those tapes somewhere too. Of course, the quality was pretty awful by today's standards. It was monophonic and had a crappy plastic mic (the handling noise it picked up was terrible). But I have fond memories of that recorder. I wish I'd kept it.

After I sold that, I bought an 8-track recorder. No, not 8-track as in multitrack. It recorded in stereo to an 8-track cartridge! Looked something like this, I think (I don't remember it very well).




The first decent recorder I bought was my Sony TC-377 reel-to-reel, which I still have.




A few years later, I bought a Pioneer CTF-9191 stereo cassette. I still have that as well.




I used to multitrack by bouncing stuff between the Sony and the Pioneer. This was in the seventies. I didn't get the Fostex till the mid to late eighties.

[chip]

The Fostex X-15 was my first multitrack. But my first recorder was this Realistic (Radio Shack) portable reel-to-reel recorder.



It was pretty cool actually (for its time). I've still got some tapes from it of me and my friend Sean jamming in his basement (Sean now plays drums in Burton Cummings' band). I also took it to a Humble Pie concert and recorded the show. The opening act was Groundhogs. I've still got those tapes somewhere too. Of course, the quality was pretty awful by today's standards. It was monophonic and had a crappy plastic mic (the handling noise it picked up was terrible). But I have fond memories of that recorder. I wish I'd kept it.

After I sold that, I bought an 8-track recorder. No, not 8-track as in multitrack. It recorded in stereo to an 8-track cartridge! Looked something like this, I think (I don't remember it very well).




The first decent recorder I bought was my Sony TC-377 reel-to-reel, which I still have.




A few years later, I bought a Pioneer CTF-9191 stereo cassette. I still have that as well.




I used to multitrack by bouncing stuff between the Sony and the Pioneer. This was in the seventies. I didn't get the Fostex till the mid to late eighties.

Wow 64, love the Sony reel to reel. By the way what is that next to it on the right, looks like some valve type amp?
Those reel to reels look so much better than the digital stuff we have now, very classy. I had a tascam cassette thingy, 4 track I think? A mate of mine still has it. We recorded something on it, sent it to John Peel and he played it. Far out.

[64Guitars]

Wow 64, love the Sony reel to reel. By the way what is that next to it on the right, looks like some valve type amp?

I found that picture on the web, so I don't know anything about the device next to it. But I agree that it looks like a vacuum-tube amplifier. I don't know what the three big black thingies are. Maybe it's nuclear-powered.

[64Guitars]

Here's the page that the Sony photo came from:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=307544

Based on the model numbers in the poster's signature, I've learned that it's a Yaqin MC-10L amplifier. The three big black things are power transformers.

http://www.china-highend-hifi.com/prod0112341242262134523.htm

[Oldrottenhead]

i had the exact same one cuthbert had, but my first recording venture where like greeny on a doubledecker ghettoblaster. i'm sure it was a panasonic, but it had a line in so i could use a wee four track mixer and plug various things in, guitar, mic cheap casiotone etc and get as much onto first take as possible but any overdubs after that the sound quality rapidly went downhill lol.

update:
found it it was a sharp wish i kept it, they now sell for over £400

and the mixer which i still have but can still be got for under a tenner.

[alfstone]

I was 15-16 yo, and this one was my first recorder: a reel-to-reel GELOSO, and Italian brand specialized in tape recorders:

...many years later (it was the end of the Eighties, more or less...) I bought a Fostex:

that's still in perfect conditions here at home!

A very long "recording blackout", and finally, since 2007, the BR-600...

Alfredo

[Oldrottenhead]

that carpet under the x-18 is a belter.

[kenny mac]

I hope it's a carpet and not a pair of boxer shorts its lying on 

[Hook]

Tascam porta studio 4 track tape recorded for me, don't remember which model, my buddy had one in high school then I got my own shortly after. 60 cycle hum and tape hiss, everything I did sounded like crap...sure wish I had those old tapes!