[rock]Mean to Me (MP3) performance piece with vocals

[uncloned]

http://neuon.com/b/Attachments/mean-to-me.mp3

This is back from 1985-ish

It was made with two cassette decks, vocal, guitar and Yamaha monophonic synth.

Mean To Me

you know you really have to decide
and there's no one to help you besides
you have to chose between being free
or spend you life here with me

think of the life that's there before you
all of the shining possibilities
think of my heart its aching for you
understand what you mean to me

you know there's no time for games
you have to take it just the same
my love is here for you
now its only what you would do

think of the life we could have together
all of the shining possibilities
we could stay this way forever
understand what you mean to me

http://neuon.com/b/Attachments/mean-to-me.mp3

[Sam_Zen]

Rocks indeed. Maybe a tiny bit too fast.
Did you use the two decks for the ping-pong dubbing ?
Nice treatment of the voice.

[uncloned]

Hi Sam!

I was hoping my disagree about Mux wasn't too extreme.

Yes, I used two cassette decks with a cheap radio shack mixer

that mixer had four 1/4" inputs for each channel - so two inputs were the other deck and the remaining inputs were plugged into by a Y-adapter and used to pan by adjusting the volume of each channel.

This was crude....

Even though the decks were "tuned" by adjusting the fine motor speed (there actually is an adjustment in consumer decks) the technique required constant retuning with each track.

Thanks for liking it.

[Sam_Zen]

I was hoping my disagree about Mux wasn't too extreme.

Not at all. On the contrary, I'm aware of the fact that my Mux-concept is an extreme in the spectrum.

I used two cassette decks with a cheap radio shack mixer

I love such cheap mixers. I wish I had ten of them. They only can mix some channels, but often it's enough.
No need for all kinds of equalisation, because the tone character has already been shaped with the el. instrument as source.

plugged into by a Y-adapter and used to pan by adjusting the volume of each channel. This was crude....

Nothing crude about that, imo. It's good to start with simple equipment, because one learns to get the max out of it.
As you did with the inside trimpots of the decks to tune the speed.
I even save a cass. deck if the head is worn out, or the motor has gone, because it often still can be used as mic. preamp.