My Story
My first contact with recording music was with my brother’s FOSTEX X 15 MULTITRACKER at the end of the 80s. With this recorder you could record 4 separate tracks on a cassette, mix them and play them back on a cassette deck. The quality was shit and anyway it wasn’t really possible for an amateur musician to record a halfway decent demo. At least from today’s perspective. If you were lucky, you got a good recording of a concert. For a proper demo you had to go to the studio.
With my band we tried our hardest and dragged all sorts of equipment into my parents‘ playroom. Of course we had absolutely no idea about anything! Wherever we came from, we were kids from a village with 6,000 inhabitants in Münsterland. Nevertheless, we had fun and were very proud of the result. And as it was at that time, we got gigs with this demo.
Take a listen: They called them Pommeroys – Fuck the dentist (1991)
In 1993 & 1995 we went into a real studio and of course the recordings got better straight away. At that time you needed a lot of equipment to properly record a band. You don’t do it as a hobby, at least I didn’t know anyone. ( Pictures Studio Münster 1993 )
The band broke up sometime between 1996-97 as everyone went their separate ways. In Düsseldorf I played some boring music with two friends for a short time and finally sold my drums around 2001/2002. Today I would say that was probably one of my biggest mistakes in life.
Due to societal hormone control, I then completely disappeared from the world of music. I spent my time choosing porcelain and believing in paths that were not meant for me.
In the mid-2010s I slowly found my way back to my passion for music. At the same time, I also discovered how drastically music making had changed. And there were actually people out there who had been making music all these years. I had missed 15-20 years of music!
With age, older people fade into the past and so the singer of my band from my youth wished that we could play a few songs on his 50. birthday.
I looked for a rehearsal room where I could practice for the concert and one thing led to another. First I bought a used drum kit, brought the Marshall into the rehearsal room and started playing with GarageBand. Little by little I put together a setup that allowed me to record a band. During the pandemic we recorded a total of 3 pieces with the old band.
Everything was somehow taught using YouTube and turning all the buttons. DIY
Today you need a microphone, an interface and a computer with some software. With these 3 things you will be able to make recordings that are many times better than the stuff from the early 90s!
Because of my new approach to music, projects arose left and right, and these projects gave rise to new ones.
In the future I would like to have many great experiences with bands and artists and so I decided to publish Sound of Oberbilk. I feel like recording music!
