Gear of yore [was RE: 16 second delay reissue a reality]

[Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

My first recording setup was a dual-cassette jambox with the same sort 
of mic-in mixing arrangement.  You could record onto one cassette, put 
that one in the playback-only deck, do a live overdub onto a second 
cassette, and repeat until noise overwhelmed everything.  I had one of 
those mini-casio keyboards with a rhythm machine built in and a Rockman 
for my guitar.   I also used the jambox as my guitar monitor when I was 
practicing...

TravisH


On Feb 17, 2004, at 7:00 AM, 
Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com wrote:

> I actually pine occasionally for my old Panasonic (mono) Cassette
> recorder-Radio, which had a setting on it that predated "Karaoke" use, 
> where
> I could play out of the speaker while also recording.  I suspect it 
> was so
> one could listen to the radio while recording, but for some reason it 
> was
> wired to that MIC IN was also part of the input.  I fried the 
> daylights out
> of that thing, to the point where it could only be used to plug my 
> guitar
> and effects into, an audiophile's nightmare at best.  I didn't need a 
> fuzz
> box, just my Wah-Wah and a Small Stone.  The fried throughput of the
> recorder-radio was loud-sounding but not really that loud, if you get 
> my
> drift.  Kind of like how some folks can sing like what's-his-name from 
> Ratt
> but not have to scream to do it?  It'd been great for busking, he 
> wrote 20
> years on...
>
> Did anyone else do this to a recorder-radio?