My first Freecycle acquisition is a 1980s Amstrad home studio thingy. I’ve been wanting to learn about hard-core audio stuff for ages but never found an entry point. This could be it. Or at least by the time I figure out how to record from this into my Mac I’ll be an expert. So many buttons and nobs! And no manual!
The story behind this is kinda neat. I’ve been following the Birmingham Freecycle mailing list for a few weeks and wrote about it here. When this came up I was very interested so I went to email the chap offering it, only to discover it was my chum Gareth who I’d turned onto Freecycle. Not only that, but the studio had been in my flat for five years – he’d just got it back in November. And now it’s back again. Some kind of destiny…
The post title is a line from the Mountain Goats song Letter From Belgium. We seem to be acquiring a fair amount of kit right now so it’s rather apt. We don’t need any stage makeup though.