03/11/2024
People often ask me how I got into sound. There’s no one single thing but certainly the ‘spark’ came from what you see here in the pictures. It’s a Garrard Trixette tape recorder from, I think, the late 50’s or early 60’s. My parents used this to record our voices when we were little. You turned the machine on using one of the stylish k***s along the front and the unit would warm up. Before long the valve on the top was glowing green and you were ready to go! I was intrigued by the fact that I could press record, hold the microphone and say something, then rewind and play that sound back. From then on I was hooked and recorded all kinds of sounds. A portable cassette tape recorder followed, then a walkman, minidisk, DAT, 8-track cassette, hard disk recorders, mixing desks, microphones, effects, speakers; you name it!! And I still get that same excitement from recording, manipulating and playing back sounds, be it dialogue, effects, ambience, Foley or music. I’m back sound designing a new project in the studio tomorrow!
