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First of all my studio. I call it the Resurrection Sound Kitchen because I do a lot of resurrecting. Mainly old tapes and videos.

This consisits of cleaning up old recordings and converting VHS/Hi8 to PC format - WAV/MP3/MPEG/DVD etc.

My gear has changed over the years like many studios and I will try to explain what I used to create these pieces of music as I go

I have had to steal a lot of pictures off the interweb I am afraid - so I apologise.
I never really considered that I should take photos of my stuff until now.

PC Hardware Page

Solo Stuff and gear (in reverse order)

The Factory

Me and Paul Fuller at the Factory
I am playing a VOX Les Paul (as a bass) through my first amp - a Sound City 120
Cant remember much about the WEM cab other than it had a plastic cover
The VOX started off life white with only 2 pickups

The only guitar gadget I had at this time was a treble booster that you plugged into the front of your amp

Here are 2 Slade songs recorded with this technique.

I was a fan in 1976 when this was recorded.

The second song includes my school friend Paul (Budgie) Burgess on backing vocals and also features a wind organ - the type that you would probably buy in Woolworths - Very Tyrannasaurus Rex

Very Early Period

My dad used to do electronics - by that I mean he would build somehting one day and take it to bits the next to make his next project, leaving the remnants in his shed.

He built me a simple mixer that had 4 inputs.

Mic/Line In 1 - Output - Left Channel

Mic/Line In 2 - Output - Right Channel

Mic/Line In 3 - Output - Stereo

Line In 4 - Output - Stereo

This meant that you could record onto one cassette deck - Left/Right or both, then swap the cables round, play the tape back through input4 and record something else over the top (left/right or stereo) onto another cassette deck. Brillaint. Who needs an 8 track Brennel anyway (I did!!!!) I had to put up with 2 ITT cassette decks (those pictured in fact) instead. These were probably quite good machines for the day - my dad worked at ITT so he used to get discount.

This one is my own composition, and posibly my first. - Enosupo

Dapple Rose from their first Album, Play it Loud (Lea/Holder)

Wonderin' Y - B Side to Take Me Bak 'Ome (Lea/Holder)