We had several connections to WBCN: Danny Schechter (The News Dissector), and our manager knew Charles Laquidara socially. Also when the program director Oedipus was a DJ on college radio, he had played our stuff.
This is a four-track home recording, most likely recorded at Cambridge Custom Percussion on River St. in Cambridge MA. We used to release these songs to radio stations in reel-to-reel 1/4 inch tape format.
I would assume around 1980 that stations would be playing almost exclusively vinyl and maybe some cassette, but would avoid it for the low frequency range - so back then radio stations had 1/4 reel-to-reel machines also, for situations like this?
@@riddim_factory Yes, what are known as half-track stereo tape decks (left and right channels only playable in one direction) were standard equipment at radio stations: for recording and editing radio spots, interviews, etc. In 1977, Rupert's Music purchased one so that I could pre-record my radio show at the shop and not have to make the long trip and lug vinyl out to WBOS-FM's little studio out by their transmitter in the marshlands of Needham MA. After Rupert's closed, I was given the shop tape deck.
Rupert's had also obtained a TEAC four track 1/4 inch recorder with a view to taping the live shows that Rupert's produced. When the shop closed Chris Wilson obtained this 4-track machine from Rupert's, so when the I-Tones came together we put it to good use.
I had one of these in 1986 and loved it - I liked the ability to do a nice live dub mix by attaching a delay unit to an Aux input and by doing things like sweeping through the parametric EQs on the high hat. It got stolen from our practice space in the South End in 1990
I just love the light and freshness of this very
early stuff. Beautiful.
Hi Pam!
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Hi Luke !!!
We had several connections to WBCN: Danny Schechter (The News Dissector), and our manager knew Charles Laquidara socially. Also when the program director Oedipus was a DJ on college radio, he had played our stuff.
This is a four-track home recording, most likely recorded at Cambridge Custom Percussion on River St. in Cambridge MA. We used to release these songs to radio stations in reel-to-reel 1/4 inch tape format.
I would assume around 1980 that stations would be playing almost exclusively vinyl and maybe some cassette, but would avoid it for the low frequency range - so back then radio stations had 1/4 reel-to-reel machines also, for situations like this?
@@riddim_factory Yes, what are known as half-track stereo tape decks (left and right channels only playable in one direction) were standard equipment at radio stations: for recording and editing radio spots, interviews, etc. In 1977, Rupert's Music purchased one so that I could pre-record my radio show at the shop and not have to make the long trip and lug vinyl out to WBOS-FM's little studio out by their transmitter in the marshlands of Needham MA. After Rupert's closed, I was given the shop tape deck.
Rupert's had also obtained a TEAC four track 1/4 inch recorder with a view to taping the live shows that Rupert's produced. When the shop closed Chris Wilson obtained this 4-track machine from Rupert's, so when the I-Tones came together we put it to good use.
@@whiteram53 Was it this one? reverb.com/p/teac-tascam-series-144-4-track-cassette-recorder
I had one of these in 1986 and loved it - I liked the ability to do a nice live dub mix by attaching a delay unit to an Aux input and by doing things like sweeping through the parametric EQs on the high hat. It got stolen from our practice space in the South End in 1990