Comments on: Garage band nostalgia using Fostex X-15 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:35:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: martin http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-748827 martin Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:13:03 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-748827 I still have my X-15 and recently got it out to record my child's first words. For 22 years it has been my muisc note pad, demo tape recoder, one man band and playback deck for my pre reorded tapes (the normal speed play is a real bonus in this domain) and now as a father's tool. What more can you ask from it. I intend to keep it for a loooong time. I still have my X-15 and recently got it out to record my child’s first words. For 22 years it has been my muisc note pad, demo tape recoder, one man band and playback deck for my pre reorded tapes (the normal speed play is a real bonus in this domain) and now as a father’s tool. What more can you ask from it. I intend to keep it for a loooong time.

]]> By: Deshter http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-726633 Deshter Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:21:31 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-726633 A friend of mine in New Zealand recently died, before his time, and when i went back from the UK for the funeral i went thru my old gear and found guitar demo tapes we did about 20-15yrs ago and dug out my old X-15. It wasnt working straight away, and i had to make a fix (the stuck keys issue) to get it running - but it then ran and ran like the day i got it. and i could replay those tapes back and audio capture them to my laptop for remastering. That old x-15 and me and my mate had some good times jamming, and it came thru for me when it played back those old demos perfectly in DolbyB for recapture. That std warm 4-track sound doing the songs justice. I dont know what equipment these days lasts 25yrs, but they dont make em like they used to. Im hanging onto it cos its a classic. A friend of mine in New Zealand recently died, before his time, and when i went back from the UK for the funeral i went thru my old gear and found guitar demo tapes we did about 20-15yrs ago and dug out my old X-15. It wasnt working straight away, and i had to make a fix (the stuck keys issue) to get it running - but it then ran and ran like the day i got it. and i could replay those tapes back and audio capture them to my laptop for remastering. That old x-15 and me and my mate had some good times jamming, and it came thru for me when it played back those old demos perfectly in DolbyB for recapture. That std warm 4-track sound doing the songs justice. I dont know what equipment these days lasts 25yrs, but they dont make em like they used to. Im hanging onto it cos its a classic.

]]> By: Oooo that wire smell, the smell of tablet burning » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-403154 Oooo that wire smell, the smell of tablet burning » Make You Go Hmm Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:23:05 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-403154 [...] On Monday’s Hmmcast I talked about my Fostex multitrack recorder that is over 22 years old still working good and here this tablet is a little over two years old and I’m having these hardware problems? Maybe it’s just the AC adapter although it seems to be working fine as of this writing. The Fostex cost $450 in 1984. The tablet cost over $2,500 in 2004. [...] […] On Monday’s Hmmcast I talked about my Fostex multitrack recorder that is over 22 years old still working good and here this tablet is a little over two years old and I’m having these hardware problems? Maybe it’s just the AC adapter although it seems to be working fine as of this writing. The Fostex cost $450 in 1984. The tablet cost over $2,500 in 2004. […]

]]> By: Vince Williams http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-401725 Vince Williams Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:43:16 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-401725 Nothing. And if they can just find those missing videotapes from Australia of the first moon landing... Nothing. And if they can just find those missing videotapes from Australia of the first moon landing…

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-401682 TDavid Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:26:31 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-401682 What surprised me is how the cassette masters will still in pretty decent condition. I didn't really expect tapes to last 22+ years. And what electronics do they make that last that long? What surprised me is how the cassette masters will still in pretty decent condition. I didn’t really expect tapes to last 22+ years. And what electronics do they make that last that long?

]]> By: Vince Williams http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-401681 Vince Williams Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:24:16 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070129/4187/#comment-401681 Not to brag, but I guess I am, anyway, one of my buddies used to send me 1st generation copies of Grateful Dead shows straight off the soundboard. I still have the tapes. I didn't have the heart to get rid of hundreds of hours of laboriously collected and edited tape of my reggae music, going back to rocksteady and ska...I saved it. Not to brag, but I guess I am, anyway, one of my buddies used to send me 1st generation copies of Grateful Dead shows straight off the soundboard. I still have the tapes.

I didn’t have the heart to get rid of hundreds of hours of laboriously collected and edited tape of my reggae music, going back to rocksteady and ska…I saved it.

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