Here’s the cover I designed for my CD, “Through A Lava Lamp, Darkly...” I took the original photograph and did the processing, layout, all of it. Groovy font, eh? And yeah, my tongue was firmly planted in cheek when I named all the tracks.
The tracks were recorded in 1998, but were only on tape until I transferred the tape to digital on my PowerMac 7100/80, in 2001. I had put a Digi-Design AudioMedia II Nubus card in the 7100, with the signal from the final mix tape fed from my Nakamichi cassete deck, through Stereo RCA cables to (to flavored by) my Dynaco PAS3X Tube Preamp, before it went back to the AudioMedia II to be written to hard drive.
That resulted in a much warmer overall sound, with the added presence from the preamp circuit. I didn’t use the tape in/out on the PAS3X, I used the main audio in/out...that put the tone controls and loudness switch into the circuit. I made several passes at lots of different settings before I found what I wanted.
I will be posting all the tracks and more notes here and on YouTube..