@jess@blop.social most of my morning has been watching YouTube reviews of the Zoom Livetrak L6max vs Tascam Model 12 (there aren’t any, just one or the other), after the past few weeks of Boss BR-80 vs Tascam DP-006, also Zoom R4, also Tascam Portacapture X6 vs X8, and so on.

None of which I will buy. I’ve decided over the weekend to eschew [1] multitrack thoughts, and return to the mindset I had in the late 90s which was run enough synths to do all the possible tracks I want, and use a midi-mute mixer (Tascam MM-1, still have one) to cut channels in and out, while I twiddle the knobs on the synths as they go along, all of it going direct to stereo DAT master. I think this was the birth of my ‘no-post-pro’ motto or ethos, just do everything live. This persisted into my video days, almost everything I did on YouTube was needlessly a livestream from the ATEM, because I’m buggered if I’m going to come back and edit it and then upload it, it goes out exactly as I did it first time.

[1] word that is never heard coming out of a person’s mouth, only experienced by reading it