Technical notes

 Living the blues – Ingo Raven (1993)

 All instruments played or programmed by IR

 This track was recorded on an analog TEAC 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder (the famous TEAC 8080, 0.5 inches). I used a Fostex analog 16-channel mixing desk which I love because of its “musical” sounding Eqs. Reverb was a small Lexicon LPS-1 – a budget home-recording version of the famous Lexicon sound. Other effects include an Alesis Midiverb II for delay and chorus.

I don’t remember exactly where the synth strings came from: must be from a cheap Yamaha porta-sound keyboard I had at those times.

A sequencer (Cubase on an ATARI computer) was synced to the tape and controlled the drums and keyboard. The drums themselves came from two Alesis drum computers (HR 16 and SR16) and snare and bass drum from a Ensoniq sampler – one of the things I borrowed for the mix down.

 Instruments:

 The bass was a noname played into the desk.

The riff guitar was my 64 fiesta red Strat with the bridge&middle Pus over a '61 Fender Concert amp with one 15” JBL speaker, the intro guitar was the same setup (middle PU alone)

I guess I also used  my Morley Volume pedal and a WD clone of the Orange Squeezer compressor.