PLAY IT LOUD
Like to play guitar, drums, or some other instrument but find that there’s no orte to play with? You can still rock out, you know, if you don’t mind playing with yourself. You can write songs, check out arrangements, record Beethoven’s Fifth, all unassisted with you playing all the instruments.
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PLAY IT LOUD
Ploy With Yourself!
Guitar Arnie
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Like to play guitar, drums, or some other instrument but find that there’s no orte to play with? You can still rock out, you know, if you don’t mind playing with yourself. You can write songs, check out arrangements, record Beethoven’s Fifth, all unassisted with you playing all the instruments. What you need is a small two-channel audio mixer and a tape recorder that is capable of either sound-on-sound or soundwith-sound recording.
Proceed as follows: Say you want to record guitar, bass, and drums to be followed up with a vocal and some vocal harmonies. Record the first instrument on, say, the left channel of the stereo tape deck. Now connect the output of channel one to one channel of the audio mixer input. Plug the output of the audio mixer (a mono signal with two components — pre-recorded signal one and mike signal) into the other channel of the stereo tape deck. Plug the earphones into the earphone jack of the tape deck and you’re about ready to do an overdub. Run the tape, recording the combined mixer signal on channel two while the signal from channel one plays. You’ll hear the old signal plus the second instrument through the earphones and you’ll wind up with a total of two signals on channel two — mixed together in whatever proportions you adjust via the audio mixer.
This can be done with any tape recorder that is capable of recording either of its two stereo channels independently of the other (known as sourid-with-sound and common on most tape' decks). If you have one of the
more expensive sound-on-sound tape decks the procedure is improved because you can record in stereo as the first signal is left on the tape while the second sound is recorded on top of it.
Guitar Notes: Two new products of interest from Instrument Systems Corporation’s Earth Sound Research line. One is an all new electric guitar to be sold with ISC’s GSM synthesizer. The guitar is custom made and, with the press of a tab, can sound like an oboe, soprano sax, harpsichord, or sitar as well as a guitar and banjo. The other product is ISC’s KT-82 amplifier that boasts 600 watts of power with eight 12 inch speakers for $1,399. A nice-looking unit that would be ideal for any of you high-powered lead guitarists*.1... In other news Fender guitar strings has introduced a new line of nylon classical strings for professional use. Named after Tarrega, one of Spain’s foremost guitarist, the line consists of four different sets of strings: standard nylon, black nylon, nylon ball end strings, and pure, silver strings. Prices range from $3.76 for each of the first two sets to $4.25 for the ball end set and $7.75 for the pure silver set which is Fender’s finest classical strings set.
