Camilo Bravo 
Let's try something today. What's the story of when you first dabbled in music-making?
Let's use the hashtag #FirstDabble to find all of your stories.
I'll go first.
A.W.Ford, the Curious Curator@cambraca #FirstDabble #MusicRecording
Wow, there was a lot of childhood playing with the #RadioShack cassette recorder. #Sang in church, took #violin & #piano in grade school, started learning #guitar at 13.
Guess my first serious attempt at recording was when I was 15, saved & bought a #Tascam 8track recorder, taught myself how to layer & bounce tracks from articles in Gig magazine. I filled in all the parts but #percussion. On some instruments I have #rhythm for days, but beats? Nope! Lol
@awford woah, you were a busy kid!
@cambraca Have any of you tried doing online collaborative recording? Been really intrigued by the idea of finding others here to try some things with, but at a loss for where to start.
Since everything went digital I have yet to get even a basic multitrack studio going that isn't a total pain in the arse. I miss analog so much! Carried that Tascam in a bag, plugged in, hit record, done.
Now I lose all inspiration dealing with USB buffers or because someone's patch broke the software.
@cambraca So for now I settle for ping-ponging individual tracks using two old Samsung phones LOL
Sad to think I made my living for 30 years in tech, but refuse to cooperate with the fancy new recording methods ð
@awford lol fancy new methods are not all terrible ;)
@cambraca I actually love working in Audacity after tracks are recorded, tweaking the audio engineering, etc. But every since they switched from using RCA audio inputs to routing through some kind of USB interface I just hit one constant snag after another
I had a Fostex MR8 that worked great because it was all self contained with no interfaces. That also made it portable independent of a laptop. Transferred tracks later into Audacity thru the audio inputs
Once it died the tech had 'improved'ðŦĢ
Twang Darkly@awford @cambraca Tascam still makes multitrack recording devices that retain much of the direct spontaneity of the cassette multitrackers from back in the day, ranging from small battery-powered devices to the wonderful Model 12 and its siblings. You can export individual tracks and mix on a computer, or you can even do mixdowns on these devices...
@TwangDarkly @cambraca awesome, have to look at those!
@awford ooooh have I got the thing for you. Check out this hashtag: #MastoMusicCollab, you should be able to find a Google spreadsheet with an ongoing project. I believe the Orange team is understaffed, feel free to send a message to their director.
@cambraca That is awesome, you rock, thanks! ðļ
@cambraca
Just finished reading those threads. I love this, it's exactly what I was thinking of!
Some ðŽs
-Dont think I have the recording capabilities to join in directly and meet the standard
-But some of my strengths are guitar composition, arrangement, and lyrics. (2 of my ðĩ were NAMMY nominated)
-I'd be happy to contribute to any of those teams at that level & pass the final playing/recording off to them.
Is that useful?
(Meanwhile I'm reinspired on recording again. I'll get there.)
@awford I'm sure there's a way to include you, my team (Purple) may need some help with writing lyrics (we're not there yet though), maybe other teams could use help too?
Jazzaria@cambraca @awford @audiodude @CharmingDolphins @convolution
Orange team here, and you're definitely welcome to join us if you'd like. Right now it's just me and @Johnny, though three others are invited and might join.
Johnny is guitar/vocals, so I defer to him on specifics of collaboration here (I'll be the one playing some post-modern bass clarinet or something). But if you want to hop on the Discord feel free to hop onto our channel and we'll take it from there!
@Jazzaria @cambraca @audiodude @CharmingDolphins @convolution @Johnny
Thanks, happy to jump in wherever it's he helpful just point me ð
@cambraca @audiodude @CharmingDolphins @Jazzaria @convolution
Cool. Will get Discord set up and figured out.
Do I need to add/introduce myself on the Google doc somewhere?
@awford @cambraca @audiodude @CharmingDolphins @convolution I wouldn't sweat the doc right off, it's meant to be useful for coordination, not a gate. Discord is probably the best place to introduce yourself, once you're on there.