anabolic frolic

We've come a long way with the technology we use to capture Hullas. I used to just hook up a hifi VHS vcr and record in 6 hour mode from an output on the mixer. that was how it was done the first few years.

Then we started renting DAT machines, but still pretty much dumped the music and MCs to tape.

Then we added crowd mics, but still dumped to dat. Whatever was captured was what we ended up with, sometimes it worked better than others.

Every party since Funtopia 7 has been recorded on a multi-track tape that I mix down myself afterwards. Generally this was done by me playing the tapes back through my mixer at home and recording a stereo mix on my PC with me playing with the levels live.

For AGT and OMGH we dumped the multi-track tapes into a Pro-Tools system that handles movies and TV shows and I could really work them over. So I've been learning new tricks every time I do this. It takes a while, but considering that people will be listening to these for years, it's worth the effort.