I’m Jeff, live outside of Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia. I’ve been playing music my whole life, but really and truly caught the bug for it as a teenager in the 90s, when I picked up a guitar and got into playing punk and metal with my friends.
I’ve played in a bunch of no-count bands over the years and I’ve had a load of fun doing it. My musical output hasn’t ever been terribly focused, ranging from metal to synth pop to retrowave to industrial and back to punk.
I think my first Tascam experience was a 414 Portastudio that we probably just about exploded from lack of any real understanding about recording and gain staging. I don’t know what happened to that one, but it vanished from my sight in the early 2000s. Eventually, I went on to getting into recording in the box and, through a career in marketing and creative, learned audio production, primarily for tv, web, and games. But, when the computer started to feel too much like work, I started to feel the pull of the Portastudio again so that I could have something more hands on.
Now, my studio has a four Portastudios in rotation: a 424 mkii, 424 mkiii, DP-32, and DP-32SD. I do some hybrid work, and pro work is ITB still, but I love the hands on simplicity of the Portastudios. I also use a Tascam TA-1VP for both singing and voiceover work.
Glad to be here with all of you!
I’ve played in a bunch of no-count bands over the years and I’ve had a load of fun doing it. My musical output hasn’t ever been terribly focused, ranging from metal to synth pop to retrowave to industrial and back to punk.
I think my first Tascam experience was a 414 Portastudio that we probably just about exploded from lack of any real understanding about recording and gain staging. I don’t know what happened to that one, but it vanished from my sight in the early 2000s. Eventually, I went on to getting into recording in the box and, through a career in marketing and creative, learned audio production, primarily for tv, web, and games. But, when the computer started to feel too much like work, I started to feel the pull of the Portastudio again so that I could have something more hands on.
Now, my studio has a four Portastudios in rotation: a 424 mkii, 424 mkiii, DP-32, and DP-32SD. I do some hybrid work, and pro work is ITB still, but I love the hands on simplicity of the Portastudios. I also use a Tascam TA-1VP for both singing and voiceover work.
Glad to be here with all of you!
