How it started

When I was a kid, I would steal my dad's cheap stereo Y microphone he used to record meetings. It was one microphone that split in two (left-right) like a letter Y. I would record myself playing a bass line, then divide the Y mic hard left and right, and play the bass line back on a stereo with the left mic picking it up, and the other towards my bass amp the right mic as I would play another part. Then after having two basses recorded in stereo (id do this with guitars, too), I would position the bass amp in the center of the Y mic with the stereo speakers placed one on the left and the other on the right. Each played back the bass lines I recorded. Next, I would hook up a cheap Toys-R-Us drum machine through the bass amp centered in front of the split Y mic and play the drums along with the pre-recorded bass lines.

I would do this instead of riding my bike outside and playing in the sun like the normies (normal kids) of the day.

My parents (both Phycologists) thought I was crazy until I played the recordings in the car. I still have those recordings on cassette tape and will begin an archive project to preserve them digitally. But won't release them; they sound like shit. Haha

It was 1986, I was 10 years old….. and that's how it started.