As it'd been 10 years since I finished my previous Album and I'd been doing some mastering for Curtis, I figured I'd master my old Album . I'd lost the CD when I moved house but my buddy who wrote and recorded it with me made me a new copy and I couldn't resist loading it into Wavelab.
So this was collabing old style...i.e. Going around to each others house !
The equipment was much more basic too....we had :
8 track recorder ( cassette based )
A Radio Shack PZM & and SM58
A mixer - reverb - delay - Aphex Exciter - Marshall amp - Yamaha Sy35 & Sy22 Synths - Alesis SR16 - Cakewalk ( just midi )
There was probably a couple more things we borrowed but that was the main setup..one of the songs has my actual alarm clock on it, stuff like that.
Everything was mixed down to DCC ( Digital compact Cassette ) whilst being run through the Aphex Exciter..you'll notice we had no compressor , so the vocals wander in and out sometimes, and obviously there was no vocal tuning apart from singing it again.
After it was done I managed to borrow a very early Pioneer CD recorder, I think it was one of only a few on the market at the time and was Very expensive, and copied my DCC masters digitally to a CD.
We sent it off to Sound On Sound Magazine and got a positive review in the Sept '98 edition using the name ' Universe '
Although it doesn't sound that great now it was done with about 18 months and was a massive learning curve !
The album I'm putting together now was the one I started after this one
...Life kinda got in the way !
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