How are you doing it?

[Thelonious Octopus]

Old topic, but what the heck...I never replied when it was first up.

My process is incredibly simple but effective. Perhaps more time consuming than some.....

I record my individual tracks one at a time and I mix them together in Sound Recorder as I go a long. So I record them using Nero Wave Recorder and then mix the sound files into Sound Recorder.

No multi track recorders here, unfortunately. But that process seems to serve me quite well.

[Lonely Few]

We're new here so we'll post on this old thread now anyway....

The Lonely Few is an all analog three person event. No digital to analog or analog to digital conversion goes on anywhere in the performance, production, manufacture or duplication of Lonely Few works. It is all played live to our two track Revox PR99 1/4" reel to reel tape machine @ 15ips via a 1966 Studer 089 console that we've permanently installed at Goose Studio's here in Sydney. Instruments include Fender twelve, six and four string guitar's and basses, 15, 35 & 180w valve amplifiers in combo and quad forms, two transistor amp combo's, an old 80's German Sonor drum kit, a 1966 Hammond L122 tonewheel organ and a 1977 Yamaha CS30 analog synth. Mikes include condensers and dynamics - the usual Shure suspects plus some vintage AKG's, Sennheisers, BeyerDynamics and EV's. Reverbs are spring and echo's are tape delay only. Up to five instruments plus vocals could be going at once. All works are original.

It is mastered off an Otari 5050 MkIII 1/4" two track reel to reel machine to a 1960's 1/4" full track reel to reel Nagra IV-L in mono, again at 15ips, via a rack of six pieces of vintage and modern outboard gear and then the cassettes are duplicated at normal speed directly off the Nagra master on a 1983 Akai GX95 Reference Master cassette deck in C12 chrome with Dolby B.

Artwork is hand made using typewriters, stamps, block and letterpress printing. Only 30 to 50 of each release are made and then that is that.

That's how it's done.

http://www.myspace.com/thelonelyfew

http://www.myspace.com/handartsound

[rotcod05]

I still do all recording from Kurzweill (& occasionally BOSS drum machine) into TASCAM, then digitize to computer & (finally) to CD-R.

Allows bouncing, of course, though these days I seldom need more than 4 tracks; tried going digital direct to the COMPUTER, but don't have the card or the SW to mix on the computer, so prefer the TASCAM!