Blogging in B Minor

I was cleaning out a closet this weekend (one of my most favorite activites!) and I came across a CD that one of my co-writers Andres made for me in Orange County over a weekend when we holed up in my house for a weekend. He had snapped a bunch of pictures and some of them were of the gear we were using. This is from about 10 years ago! Yes, I was using Cakewalk back then – it was Cakewalk Pro Audio then and I was still using a Yamaha DX7. That keyboard took a beating but I never had a problem with it – it just kept going and going. However, as time passed I used less and less of the ROM patches and more and more of the outboard modules and just triggered them. I had rackmounted modules – a Roland U-110, an Alesis D4 drum module and a Roland Piano Module and I believe that I even had a Roland SoundBrush! We had a bunch of outboard gear in racks including guitar effects and other outdated equipment. Granted, the guitar racks are still great but my stuff for studio work is way different these days.

Geez, those were painful days – so much is simplified now! Anyway, I had to post some of this stuff. I started looking through these pictures and it just brought back memories, mostly memories about how painful it was to produce music this way.

The Setup – Here is a picture of the setup. It was fairly archaic. We would do a lot of the recording here and do rough vocal takes and then take our stuff to a studio to do our main vocal takes. Midi tracks were laid down, we’d do SMPTE lock at the studio and do 1/4″ TRS outputs to the board in the studio. Look at this stuff!

The old faithful DX7

My old rack – brings back a lot of memories. Look at the My Studio Page for a comparison between then and now!

Finally, the side by side shot of the two racks full of junk I don’t even have any more! Good riddance!

Memories! (somewhat painful)

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