I started recording right at the millenium.

I started out using tascam cassette records, that's how long ago I started.

Most of the stuff I've produced I did on an analogue board mixed live into a tascam all in one live CD recorder.

Sometime in the early Teens I got a pricey tascam 8 channel all in one hard disk recorder CD burner

I went in with a bandmate to get it, and taught him how to mix so I wouldn't have to anymore. For the 5 or six years our band stayed together, I would make him do all the mixing, and he eventually just started using the tascam as an interface and nothing more as technology developed.

I got to the point where I'd just rent a studio to record in, since that meant access to a bad ass mic locker and engineer. It also cut down on my recording a lot, but I was putting out proper records and a lot times getting someone else to bankroll it too. Clout is nice.

Well, it's been a while since then, and they finally make cheap laptops that can do the job you'd need a proper production machine to do a decade ago.

So I pulled the trigger on a new rig, cables and all. I've still got some of my old drum mics, and I got my hands on some decent instrument mics too. I'm probably going to make more serious recordings than the phone videos of me doing solo acoustic stuff I've been releasing lately.

I'm probably just gonna use it to release decent versions of my goofy solo stuff.

But still, if all goes well and I put some work in, I could start putting up some real quality submissions moving forward. I'm certainly digging the higher accuracy of the tools on Reaper.