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Chapter 5 Recording Techniques I've Used.
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Here are some of the recording techniques and machines I've used up to the present:
These are the two units I used for sound on sound-1977-1979:
The cassette (CTF-1000) and the reel to reel (RT-707), both Pioneer. The real pain in the butt was having to switch the RCA cords back & forth between input & output. A song that was concieved in this "era" that I recently recorded with my current setup is ”With You”written in April of 1978.
In 1984 I entered multitrack with one of these: 
The speed of the Fostex X15 was standard cassette speed, 1 7/8 inches per second. It had no auxilliary jacks for send/return effects. You could, of course print the effect running the mic or line signal through the effect module, but that was about it. Punch in/out was terrible!! It was essentially an air bulb that you screwed into the unit and when you wanted to punch in you had to SLAM it with your foot hard enough as to activate the record button mechanically. Failure to hit it hard enough would result in the unit just stopping resulting in a funny sound which was very difficult to erase. My song ”Should’ve Known (Acoustic Version)” was born using this piece of gear.
I upgraded to the X15's bigger brother, the Fostex 160 in 1987:
Benefits were faster tape speed: 3.75 IPS and it had auxilliary jacks for send/return. You could use 1 effect. Any to your liking.
I chose an Alesis Microverb II 
I would print to the tracks through the output and send/return through the Auxilliary jacks on the 160. No longer was punching in/out a nightmare. That feature on the 160 was the more modern electronic latch cable setup.
I used an RX17 drum machine:
Songs from this era include: Original pop version of ”Still In Love”
Which bring us to my current setup, In October of 2005, I re entered the home recording world after a 13 year absence by purchasing a Zoom MRS802:
For the first year I mixed using the 802s internal mixer. In July of 2006 I joined the Zoom Equipment forum and a very talented guy named Mike Wich turned me onto a new concept. Record using the 802, but then export the completed tracks to my PC and expand my mixing capabilities using the free Kristal Audio Engine software. 
This offers a number of improvments over the internal mixer. For one, I could take advantage of the revolutionary Virtual Studio Technology (VST) designed by Steinberg and uses Plug ins for effects and equalization. I could also double my track capacity (8 to 16) by using the 802 "v take" feature.
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