Use a microcassette recorder as a “vocal” mic.
The built-in compression on these devices is usually so crazy that it lends an interesting character to whatever you record into it.
I used this sound for the scratchy response vocal in the chorus of “Really Really Weird“:
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Record onto the cassette, then play the tape into your DAW and line things up at the proper place in the mix.
Or, for a slightly cleaner sound, put the recorder into record mode and connect the headphone out jack into your DAW input. Then you can truly use the microcassette recorder as a real-time “mic.”
