baby baby baby blue a double fester 50s r'n'r litlr on tape

[Oldrottenhead]

Amazing quality recording - I could never get this kind of quality when I was an analogue man back in the distant '90s. Brilliant performace too! I notice the cans of Saint Etienne in the pic too - Aldi's finest: perfect for getting the musical juices flowing 

yeah aldi's saint etiene help get the juices running.

[cuthbert]

Analog level meters on your cassette deck? Color me jealous!

I like the litlr performance. Did you do some panning on the inputs?

[Oldrottenhead]

Analog level meters on your cassette deck? Color me jealous!

I like the litlr performance. Did you do some panning on the inputs?

no panning. Panning was done with mic positioning.one mic recorded to left channel other to the right channel. Would be interesting to do a live band recording using this. But something wrong with heads or cassette as I cant erase. Anything I now record goes over the top of existing recording. Not sure how to sort this but could be a project to exercise my aging mind.

[Oldrottenhead]

After some reading I think it just needs a good clean.

[Ted]

This sound is really different for you – maybe analog brings out a different side of you.

During the chorus, I immediately recognized the R.E.M "Radio Free Europe" chord: The F#7 where you don't fret the open B string. (It's probably called F#7add11 or something like that.) I don't know the original, and I bet that exact chord isn't there. You modernized the song a bit by doing the old school recording.

Very nice.

Cassette bump

[Zoltan]

This was clearly before "it is what it is" -era and i like it!

I do like the later years too, but if you've done cleaning the machine... Perhaps it's time for a revisit?

[Oldrottenhead]

It was impossible to clean the tape heads on that really old stereo cassette deck and anything i recorded afterwards didn't record over what was already on the tape.

I'm sticking to digital. Though i loved my fostex 4 track  back in the day but its mac and garageband for ease of use and expense. I think my fostex cost me a months wages back in the day mid 80s.