My first ever multi-track recording!!! /// Year: 1987 /// Track: 'Mystic Sea'
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ChameleonMusic ChameleonMusic https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=430348
- KVRAF
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- 1611 posts since 23 Nov, 2018 from Birmingham, UK
Private link only - don't really want this one public on my SC where clients can hear it !
https://soundcloud.com/chameleon-music/ ... 17REFNF2oR
Been sorting out the attic and found a whole load of cassettes that I thought had been lost forever!
My very first multitrack recording in 1987...All done in a single day because we had to return most of the equipment...absolutely no idea what I was doing really!
Not too bad a transfer from cassette, but not 100% successful...stereo is slightly weird at times amongst other issues!
EQUIPMENT: Tascam Porta 2 cassette based 4 Track // SM58 microphone // Loads of equipment borrowed from Rich Bitch Studios in Selly Oak Birmingham - drum machine, home keyboard with built in MIDI sequencer, multi-effects unit.
Those were the days - no compression unit available for this one, no 'copy and paste', no PC etc etc
NOTE: I know it was 1987 because Napalm Death were at Rich Bitch recording 'SCUM'!
Song composed by Nick Taylor
Vocals Nick Taylor
All music arranged, performed and produced by Mark Taylor
https://soundcloud.com/chameleon-music/ ... 17REFNF2oR
Been sorting out the attic and found a whole load of cassettes that I thought had been lost forever!
My very first multitrack recording in 1987...All done in a single day because we had to return most of the equipment...absolutely no idea what I was doing really!
Not too bad a transfer from cassette, but not 100% successful...stereo is slightly weird at times amongst other issues!
EQUIPMENT: Tascam Porta 2 cassette based 4 Track // SM58 microphone // Loads of equipment borrowed from Rich Bitch Studios in Selly Oak Birmingham - drum machine, home keyboard with built in MIDI sequencer, multi-effects unit.
Those were the days - no compression unit available for this one, no 'copy and paste', no PC etc etc
NOTE: I know it was 1987 because Napalm Death were at Rich Bitch recording 'SCUM'!
Song composed by Nick Taylor
Vocals Nick Taylor
All music arranged, performed and produced by Mark Taylor
Last edited by ChameleonMusic on Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:58 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Mark Taylor, Chameleon Music - Professional composition and sound design for all media since 1994.
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
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- KVRAF
- 7725 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
- KVRian
- 973 posts since 21 May, 2020 from germany
hi Mark, the track was so ancient that it was erased by itself !!
track not found
track not found
it is better to have a track with some mistakes than a track without any soul
myself in 2022
myself in 2022
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- KVRAF
- 2989 posts since 5 Nov, 2014
Go to "Share" option on Soundcloud player and copy the link from there, not from browser.
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ChameleonMusic ChameleonMusic https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=430348
- KVRAF
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- 1611 posts since 23 Nov, 2018 from Birmingham, UK
Yeah - thanks...I did, but somehow didn't copy the last bit of the 'private' linkPassing Bye wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:39 pm Go to "Share" option on Soundcloud player and copy the link from there, not from browser.
Complicated it all as I just don't want this 'vintage' piece out there for all on SC...not gonna impress modern clients
Mark Taylor, Chameleon Music - Professional composition and sound design for all media since 1994.
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
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- KVRAF
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- 1611 posts since 23 Nov, 2018 from Birmingham, UK
Changed link at the last minute and missed a bit off the end...ALWAYS CHECK!!! Lesson learnt!
Should work now?
Mark Taylor, Chameleon Music - Professional composition and sound design for all media since 1994.
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
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- KVRAF
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- 1611 posts since 23 Nov, 2018 from Birmingham, UK
Had a moment...always check a last minute re-copied and pasted link!
Mark Taylor, Chameleon Music - Professional composition and sound design for all media since 1994.
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
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- 849 posts since 3 Jul, 2017
Very British, indeed. Considering this was your first recording, the outcome is really great.
4 track tape recorders: I know them back from the nineties, one can do some weird stuff with that machines.
Nice historical add!
4 track tape recorders: I know them back from the nineties, one can do some weird stuff with that machines.
Nice historical add!
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- 4558 posts since 21 Mar, 2020
You didn't know what you were doing and you came up with this???? I hate you! If this was a single, I would have happily bought it. It's a great song and very well put together musically. You wrote that it was all done in a day, presumably with no previous conceptions. I think that sometimes produces the freshest most natural results. I did a whole album once where every Sunday afternoon, I took some beer and some naughty stimulating pinkish white powder to my room (I don't do that anymore - honestly) and I would just work on a drum machine track on its own without any idea of what I was going to lay on top of it. Once I had recorded that, I briefly concocted a bassline while listening to the drum track and recorded that over the drums. I did the same with the guitar and lead guitar and only then did I set about writing the lyrics. It was some of the liveliest, most imaginative and most enjoyable music I have ever written. Shame the recording got damaged in the end.
Spontaneity rules! Well done with this recording.
Spontaneity rules! Well done with this recording.
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- KVRAF
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- 1611 posts since 23 Nov, 2018 from Birmingham, UK
Cheers for having a listen to this oldie!
'Very British' - yeah, I can hear that!
I loved my Tascam 4-track...weird things indeed were possible with that technology.
Mark Taylor, Chameleon Music - Professional composition and sound design for all media since 1994.
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
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- KVRist
- 299 posts since 26 Jun, 2018
This is such a relic! It has an early Tears For Fears vibe to it. With a proper mixing and editing it could be a great debut single...
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- KVRAF
- 21189 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
Absolutely had to listen to this one. Goes to show how far you've come. Musically, it's excellent. Recording is obviously flawed but still a lot better than my early recordings where the only thing I knew how to do was pin the meter. LOL.
- KVRAF
- 1609 posts since 28 Oct, 2005 from Finland
Good song and recording. Sounds nice
I never got as good recording as you with my tascam porta 2.
I never got as good recording as you with my tascam porta 2.
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- 1611 posts since 23 Nov, 2018 from Birmingham, UK
Thanks for the listen and positive words... If I ever get time and my brother's permission I might try and rework this one!Erisian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:19 pm You didn't know what you were doing and you came up with this???? I hate you! If this was a single, I would have happily bought it. It's a great song and very well put together musically. You wrote that it was all done in a day, presumably with no previous conceptions. I think that sometimes produces the freshest most natural results. I did a whole album once where every Sunday afternoon, I took some beer and some naughty stimulating pinkish white powder to my room (I don't do that anymore - honestly) and I would just work on a drum machine track on its own without any idea of what I was going to lay on top of it. Once I had recorded that, I briefly concocted a bassline while listening to the drum track and recorded that over the drums. I did the same with the guitar and lead guitar and only then did I set about writing the lyrics. It was some of the liveliest, most imaginative and most enjoyable music I have ever written. Shame the recording got damaged in the end.
Spontaneity rules! Well done with this recording.
Yeah, just one day to learn, arrange, perform and produce it was kinda fun! My brother actually wrote the lyrics and the bare bones 'piano only' song the day before!
Mark Taylor, Chameleon Music - Professional composition and sound design for all media since 1994.
https://www.chameleonmusic.co.uk/
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- KVRian
- 973 posts since 21 May, 2020 from germany
that is some nice oldschool music.
and your brother has a really good voice. a really nice natural voice. you could really have made a lot of it. did he pursue that way (the music) or did he do something completely different?
and your brother has a really good voice. a really nice natural voice. you could really have made a lot of it. did he pursue that way (the music) or did he do something completely different?
it is better to have a track with some mistakes than a track without any soul
myself in 2022
myself in 2022