Beeing on the way to achieve the production of a remastered colletion of works made on a 4track cassette recorder (you may knew the Teac/Tascam portastudio 144 that AFAIK seems to be the very first of his generation) i'm then, of course, glad to submit to you a few samples of these for your own evaluation (4 of them, from a selection of 29 tracks, from about a hundred original recordings)
So they're made of a 4 tracks, many acoustic instruments, many experimental soundtakes related to a use of included effect (many delays among others) in real time, a few electronic instrument, a very few sequenced melodies
This stategy much helped me to compensate the lack of instrumental technique that may appear sometimes, in retrospect ( especially when soloing, therefore they're most of the time deeply immersed in the overall harmony )
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www.anak-krakatoa.net/~downl/4tracks/15.mp3
this one comes from early 1982, based on repetitive theme played with a sanza (or kalimba, this technique was directly inspired by the use of step sequencer on the german Krautrock music of late seventies like tangerine dream, Edgar Froese in solo, or especially Klaus Schulze) , the only electric instrument was this kind simulated bass that roughly appears in the end part of the song, that and some of the infamous delayed effect of my voice at the beginning except, i'm quite proud of the final result and the overall mood of this one...
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www.anak-krakatoa.net/~downl/4tracks/23.mp3
this one was base in a short sequenced on a korg poly-800 and as well, except the heavily delayed electric guitar single bass note, everything was acoustic-based
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www.anak-krakatoa.net/~downl/4tracks/88.mp3
this one comes from a happy rythmic effect made with the layer of a tambourine sample (Roland S10) and a arpegiated FM synth note (Yamaha TX81Z) very impressive for me how the same sample change character on transpostion : the introducing riff come from the same layer at about 2 octaves shift and, you may imagine, is basing this entire, minimalistic and spontaneous composition/improvisation
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www.anak-krakatoa.net/~downl/4tracks/68.mp3
this one came out after a few years of daily practice of all kind of soundtakes, and mixing experiences and pushes quite close the limits of what i could experiment of soundakes and tape effects...a lot of the "Random mod" in big size of the Early Reflection program of the old Yamaha SPX90 that i liked both for it arithmic ( and "horrific") character and the feeling of angles that shines in these echoes, also some drop out because it was the very end of the cassette i used
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Actually the only mastering/restoring process was a stereo equilibration ( independant normalisation of both channels ) and then denoising hisses
If anyone would have some good suggestion on other mastering processes that would shine to their ears i'll be very glad to here !
Feedbacks are welcome anyway, as usual...
The sound is not bad, I know it well as I've dumped a lot of work from cassette to HD.
