So much time spent working with this beautiful machine in the late ‘90s. It did literally nothing but *record* multiple tracks and I used the heck out of that rec button. No phantom power. No EQ. No aux sends. Nothing to fuck with. Trim, levels and pan, that’s it. Didn’t need to load up software or VST or anything and it didn’t email you plugin deals on Black Friday.
If I needed a reverb on a vocal, I’d record in my bathroom (never yielded great results imo). If I wanted something ghostly with long trails, I’d set up the recorder in a hallway or stairwell at school, capture my main vox on my SM57, and a second mic pointed in the opposite direction, ten feet away — or however long that XLR cable was — on some budget mic belonging to my school, plugged into the second channel.
Learning to work within the limitations of a given technology is a truly wonderful thing.
