Fostex
Fostex is a Japanese audio equipment manufacturer that produces headphones and earphones, speaker systems and speaker drivers, DACs and headphone amplifiers, and microphones.www.fostex.com
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Oct 11, 2026
J.R. BookwalterGUEST
Yeah.
J.R. BookwalterGUEST
Then later, there was a period of time where I had an eight-track reel-to-reel Fostex setup.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh.
J.R. BookwalterGUEST
Yeah.
ShivaGUEST
right here.
ShivaGUEST
It's called a four-track by Fostex.
ShivaGUEST
This is...
ShivaGUEST
Everybody's want to know how FBM used to make their mixes.
Skip HellerGUEST
I don't think there's anything on this record, because remember, you know, this record was made on some Flintstones equipment.
Skip HellerGUEST
This is a four-track Fostex with, you know, what catches catch can signal processing.
Skip HellerGUEST
And it's the same with Joe Meek.
Skip HellerGUEST
When you see how deliberate his record-making strategies were.
Nate FarleyGUEST
I played bass and guitar on it.
Nate FarleyGUEST
We did it at my dad's house on, like, a Fostex, or on a Tascam four-track.
WillHOST
Of course.
DanHOST
Mm-hmm.
Nate FarleyGUEST
They gave it to you in shop class.
DanHOST
That's how-
Nate FarleyGUEST
Um, um, I had f- I had a Fostex four-track, and I think my dad had a Tascam, which was slightly nicer, so-
DanHOST
[laughs]
Chris CollierGUEST
Cause I had worked, my dad had an old like, he had a studio in the house when I was growing up.
Chris CollierGUEST
He had an old Fostex 16 channel, a 16-channel reel-to-reel half-inch machine, and I learned on that.
Chris CollierGUEST
And, you know, Tannoy studio monitors, which I blew up because I didn't know how low-end worked and all this stuff.
Chris CollierGUEST
And, you know, so I came from the analog side.
Buddy MillerGUEST
That's how we would demo Julie's songs, and that's how we basically would get recording.
Buddy MillerGUEST
I eventually found a way of just playing every night and doing what I could to save up and get a, I think it was a Fostex 8-track.
Buddy MillerGUEST
8-tracks on a quarter-inch tape.
Craig HavighurstHOST
Yeah.
Brad WorrellHOST
Legion of Doom didn't get to, didn't get to record in a, in a shitty recording studio.
Chris ShiflettGUEST
No, but Legion of Doom did make a really shitty Fostex four track demo.
Chris ShiflettGUEST
Nice.
Chris ShiflettGUEST
I do remember that.
Maggie SiebertGUEST
Actually, no, after that, because this album was recorded mostly in 2024, like October 24, and it took a while for it to come out, which I'm kind of happy with, honestly, that it marinated for a little bit.
Maggie SiebertGUEST
But... after that I was using, um, like a Fostex, like digital multi tracker.
Maggie SiebertGUEST
And that piece of gear had like a lot of really interesting, like cut up possibilities with it.
Maggie SiebertGUEST
Um, where you could do a lot of really interesting, um, just nasty, like digital stuff.
Mason StoopsGUEST
The album wouldn't have been the same because the album initially was gonna be...
Mason StoopsGUEST
I had a little Fostex tape machine that I loved and a, a $500 Mackie board that me and Jesse had hot-rodded, or mostly Jesse, and I watched him.
Lizzy McAlpineGUEST
[laughs]
Mason StoopsGUEST
And the record was gonna be so cool 'cause it was just gonna be the three of us in that little studio just really leaning into Lizzy's incredible guitar playing and Taylor's incredible piano playing and my incredible pushing the record button on the Fostex.
Lizzy McAlpineGUEST
[laughs]
Mason StoopsGUEST
And that was gonna be the record, and that was a really stressful day.