Episode 20: We Took Out a Loan Together
A band with just drums and guitar.
We managed to put together an instrumental.
I thought it was a great song, the two of us made together.
A drummer who loved Carmine Appice and Terry Bozzio. A guitarist who loved METALLICA. But what came out ended up more like a mixture of everything.
We decided to record it as is, press our own CD, and promote it ourselves.
For that, we needed more gear.
Back then, the Macintosh G3 had just come out.
But we found out you could record just fine on the previous model, the PowerMac 9600. A MOTU audio interface. A Tascam CD-R writer, expensive at the time, that could copy CDs without degrading the sound. DigiTech's Vocalist, a rack-mount vocal effects unit, I think it was around 160,000 yen. A guitar preamp, the ADA MP-2. And more. We took out a loan together and bought it all.
The result...
To be continued.
