Sound man - Said in the manner of a Scouse wannabe Manc living on the Manchester side of the Salford and Cheetham Hill border, putting on that nasal twang that's completely inauthentic to the area.
You're twisting my melon man, etc.
Hard at work in the sound archive, fiddling with the already archaic four-track Tascam 244 Portastudio. Probably bouncing down some backing from a jam session to give space to overdub.
At the time the Tascam seemed fully featured and with a bewildering array of controls, on reflection having used various digital audio workstations it now appears pretty basic. However it was possible to do some pretty cool stuff if using a little ingenuity. We fed a guitar through a vintage analogue synth to produce some very peculiar sounds, returned via the effects loop on the Tascam, and many other things which did and didn't work most of which involved the effects loop... At no point did we attempt to recreate musical instruments using sellotape.*
Although we did what we considered to be interesting stuff the reality is that it was only really of interest to us, and it is worth considering that The Beatles recorded the Sergeant Pepper album a quarter of a century earlier using two four track recorders. Using twice the technology, and an infinite amount more creativity, The Beatles did a pretty good job.**
* Some have tried and then bailed - Pink Floyd.
** Obviously they did an excellent job - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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