The recordings of "Blind", "Never Will Forget You", and "Someone To Save Me" were done using a Tascam PortaOne 4-track recorder and some kind of Radio Shack cardioid dynamic mic (I don't have the model # available right now, not like anyone would care.) All the instruments were tracked in one pass with one mic, split and recorded to 2 tracks in an attempt to minimize tape dropouts. The instrument levels were balanced by moving the mic back and forth between the amplifier stacks and the drums, which were set up at opposite ends of the garage, facing each other. The mic was positioned pointing downwards to get more even pickup from all around the garage. By the way, the garage the songs were recorded in measured about 8' wide by 20' long. The drums took up about 1/3 of the space, and the 3 instrument stacks lined the entire far wall.
Lead and backup vocals were overdubbed separately, with one mic going into one track for each. Monitoring was through a floor wedge positioned behind the microphone.

The restoration was done on a Pentium 90 computer using Sound Forge and the Waves C1 compressor, Q10 paragraphic equalizer, and L1 ultramaximizer. First the audio was copied off the master tape (which had been sitting in a garage for 7 years) using the same 4 track it was recorded on, onto hard disk using a Digidesign Session 8 studio interface. From there, the various processing tweaks were applied to try and reduce the unlistenability factor of the recordings. I'll post screenshots of the EQ curves I had to use on the instrument tracks soon. They're truly horrifying, and very educational.

More info coming soon!