Right on McGrath!At first I just recorded into the built in monitor mike on the PC with the window unit AC on and the ceiling fan on medium, which gave me that static AM radio buzz and simulated 78 rpm record noise. Now I use two mike's plugged into the cheapest cassette tape deck I could find that would accept two inputs. I have an omni directional for vocal on a stand placed a couple feet or so away from my head and an Elvis type old shure that used to broadcast the daily announcements in a Philadelphia highschool, which I place in a cigar box on the bed with the lid of the box held straight up by a shoe or whatever's handy. The cassette deck's input level is then adjusted so the lights run close to even and I let 'er rip from there. Pretty crude but I ain't goin' for the Electric LadyLand type of recording with the stuff that I do. I figure if the Lomax's could get the sounds that they did out of a machine they carried around in the trunk of a car, there must be some merit to bad recording techniques. Set up takes about five minutes and I don't have to keep foolin' with knobs and switches.
Perfectly awful quality, but hey ya can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Tweed
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