[linux-audio-user] drum loops, samples,

[Anahata]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:15:50AM +0000, Daniel James wrote:
> 
> I knew a band who used to keep a crappy tape player in their studio, 
> the portable kind that has built-in speakers either end. When they'd 
> finished a mix, they would run off a cassette copy and play it back 
> on this machine to see if it still sounded good.

This is common practice. Also switching to small "lo-fi" speakers in the 
control room and sticking a cassette mix in the car sound system to
listen to on the way home from the session or wherever.

> I guess now the equivalent would be a portable MP3 player with 
> nasty in-ear headphones...)
Quite possibly...

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