janzen@felix.DEC (Thomas E. Janzen LMO2-0/E05 279-5421) (10/17/84)
RE: MALIK on multi-track recording In about 1977 or 8 I recorded a clarinet quintet or sextet of mine called "Field Effects." There was only one clarinetist. I did a mono recording with a very old coverless vacuum tube amatuer tape recorder and a better Sony cassette drive. I built a monaural passive mixer to help. I conducted. This was in a very reverberent empty bedroom. We used a click-track that I had painstakingly created with a metronome in real time. Playing the click track on right channel of the reel-to-reel tube machine, my clarinetist friend Ralph (now in the L.A. studios) would play one of the parts, regular Bb, alto, bass, double bass, or Eb, recording both tracks onto the cassette. There was no mic-line mix on the machines. I don't remember how I did it. Tom Janzen now of DEC 140 Locke Marlboro MA Wed 17-Oct-1984 08:27 EST