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The whole reason I appreciate my mastering engineer in the first place is that I am not looking to get all the bits back as they were prior to mastering. If that's what I wanted, I'd send it off without bothering to pay for that terrific analog chain in a beautifully tweaked acoustical environment w...

That's $15/unit! I don't know ANYONE selling units at that price. Most people are selling product at $1 - $4 per unit. I don't know where you are or where you've been, but we sell our CD's for $15, and are getting circa $10 wholesale from reputable retailers. We haven't fully recouped yet but we're...

Nope, below the industry radar because the amounts aren't worth tracking. They don't enable artists, mostly they slowly bleed them dry by not being sustainable or creating a sustainable market condition. The estimate I've seen is ten million units, untracked. Maybe a hundred fifty million bucks wor...

<snipitty> Losing $80 billion industrywide per year is not market growth. <snipitty> Markets change, cultures evolve or devolve, and shit happens. The gaming industry now pulls in tons of money for a recreational activity that pretty much didn't exist at all not very long ago. Pinning the reduction...

<snipitty> Get real - music is a recreational activity which was co-opted by a business there was music BEFORE there was a music business. <snipitty> Yeah, and for those who qualified, wimps like Bach and Mozart, for instance, life support came in the form of patronage. You played at the behest of ...

It's cool to look for a distro deal, but if you're going to lay down five grand I think you should have a backup plan to DIY, if you really believe in the music. By the time you drop the coin audiences will have told you whether or not the music is credible. Commit the money once you can see your pa...

Not a website, but one of the best intros I've seen to that stuff is John Backus's Acoustical Foundations of Music.

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwo ... of%20Music

When I first saw the Latchlake, at AES some years ago, it had a large AEA ribbon mic, a Great River NP1-NV, and a bowling ball hung from it. You could still do a chinup on it. It's also out of my own budget. <g> Great thing is that once it's set to position, it's going to stay there barring some eve...

Thanks for this. Yes, I see. Maybe we just need to set up the preamp properly, so that the louder volume isn't screechy. I'll have a look at it tonight I think. Two issues I see here. The first is the amount of boost, which should be adjustable, and the second is the screechy tone. Regardless of ap...

These days I'd chop out the $2500 for replication and release it digitally, because no one is buying physical product anymore. But I realize I'm drastically oversimplifying the situation. The stats don't support the assumption that nobody is buying physical product anymore. That's a line the digira...

You might enjoy a pair of Schoeps CMC6 amps w/Mk4 cardioid heads. Very little color; terrific articulation. Not cheap, but less than the KM54's, which are very nice mics, too.

Your time is your time, and also your money, and theirs, too. No need to tell you some of those "corpo" folks have an exploitative approach to your time. If you can survive without their crap and are ready to tell them you work for the time that has been booked, I can only offer you two thumbs up.

As far as I know there was never a "300" series rack. Just 500 and 200. The 312 was always just a console mic pre card tucked away inside. However the faceplate design would have to be pretty damn straight forward. Just like you've got. The only thing I can suggest is that if you can fit an attenua...

Larry, post you Sony mic questions into the Whatever Works forum at Pro Sound Web and you'll get plenty of info.