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Day 1: The first three songs of my new album Heckel’s Whore are now on Bandcamp. Recorded tonight at home, aka Black Ivory Printmaking & Audio Club on a Fostex four track cassette recorder that arrived today from ebay. It has a nice unintentional wobble sound my old one had. Like on the vocals of the Elbow Sisters recording below:
The new second-hand four track, so far, only wobbles on guitar. I don’t understand why as I’ve been recording different instruments on different tracks, yet only guitar gets the wobble. No wobble on bass. Weird.
Twenty years ago, the 134 bus went straight from Muswell Hill to Denmark Street, where you could buy a new four track cassette recorder for £70. I should have got a subprime mortage and spent it all on four tracks. The best thing about a blog is not having to keep losing scraps of paper with your studio settings:
T1- guitar vol 7.5, G5: 8
T2- bass vol 7.5, G5: 9
T3- vocal vol 10, ve20: 79
T4- drums vol 10, ve20: 41
G5: 24.3 HW Stack
Counter positions:
Beauty Was There: 965-60
Maiden Alice: 60-95
Knee Bore: 96-181
Mixdown volumes:
Fostex: 4
G5: 17
Guitar: Ibanez back pickup
Day 2: The wobble gets bigger the deeper into the tape you go. The beauty of dying analogue motors. See: Is it any wonder why?
Day 3: Took a break from Heckel’s Whore recording to do a Smashing Pumpkins cover:
Edgeworth Johnstone is Heckel's Horse Jr. 
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