I got a dictaphone sanyo talk book vas
Since my drum machine doesn’t support long samples well and there is no way of warping, I wanted something that would allow me to do this, in a cheap and effective way.
The purpose of it is not to have a full track, but to have drones, ambiences and field recordings for live performance, so process them on the computer and then record them onto casstte. Nothing with drums or rythym that needs to be on quantised because syncing it with the sampler would be impossible.
So I can have long recordings and play them and process them while performing, or have tape loops. I want to get away from using a computer live.
I think its a great tool, but when using lots of hardware plus computer it doesn’t work, it too many things to keep controlled, and I feel like the state of mind of making music on hardware doesn’t go to well with the computer. The times I’ve done it I feel like Im fighting with the sound instead of gently guiding it. Its a bit stressful. So the dictaphone can liberate me from that while still having the sounds from the computer, in lofi quality.
In the future I could have a couple of these and with a cheap behringer mixer play around with them and send them to effects.
Im thinking of using the dictaphone closesy wuith morphagene as well.
Ive had some expiernce using cassettes in the past. I had one in mexico but it broke recently.
I used to use it to send drums and pads to it, record it really hot, then send it to my guitar amp, and record it with a mic.It was really fun, it was some of my first expiernces processing and recording sound with hardware.
This was when I was 16 and went through my boards of Canada phase.