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freedy · 4th July 2006

Mike Brown took my Sony mini-cassette recorder, set it on the floor in front of the kick drum, put a tape in it and put it in Record, went out of the 1/8" mono earplug output through various radio shack adapters until we got it up to a 1/4" phone plug, then ran that into channel one of 001 and used it as a "lo fi tape compression" color mic. Maybe try that from across the room also.

4th July 2006	#21
freedy Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 20	This one time, at band camp... Mike Brown took my Sony mini-cassette recorder, set it on the floor in front of the kick drum, put a tape in it and put it in Record, went out of the 1/8" mono earplug output through various radio shack adapters until we got it up to a 1/4" phone plug, then ran that into channel one of 001 and used it as a "lo fi tape compression" color mic. Maybe try that from across the room also.