Topic: Big Band recording - digital nostalgia from the 1980s

[robtweed]

So here's some vintage stuff - a recording I made of a Big Band called Superjazz in the Bulls Head in Barnes, South London way back in the 1980s.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/robs-music-files/funtime_track1.wav

It was made with a single pair of Calrec CM652D cardioid mics, recording into a Sony PCM ES-501 digital recorder - see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_PCM-501ES_digital_audio_processor

I think I used a Tascam Portastudio 244 as the mic pre-amp and mixer stage (the Sony PCM box only had line inputs), and the recording was made to some old VCR player I used at the time!

I think the recordings I made were the only ones ever done for Superjazz.  Its players were all young up and coming musicians who are now most of the big names in the London session scene.  Historic stuff!