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It might also be useful to think in terms of "What would I use these new mics for?" I'm assuming your current set up is similar to this: Bluebird - vocals NT1000 - vocals D112 - bass drum MD421 / SM57 - snare SM57 / MD421 - guitars So, I'd add small diaphragm condensers (or just a single LDC if you ...

Okay. I'm reading your reply as "Not a whole lot". That accurate?

Median value generally eliminates the exceptional performers, which is why it's so useful. But I respect the advice that "See what the top performers have done right and try to apply that."

FYI, that "$179" thing is a nonsense number created by someone unconnected to TuneCore, who is missing considerable data. You can put it out of your mind, it's meaningless. The idea of an "average artist" cracks me up, even as a mathematical concept. I've never even met an artist who described thei...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:i'd say put them closer than you might initially want to.

I was going to post this same thing, saying "You always get more space than you bargained for."

Hey, was Ecasound mentioned already? Implementing a GUI to this could be a pretty easy route.

Where would we be if we saw Windows and OSX and said "Linux on the desktop? Whadda ya need that for?" Well, I was on Linux around when kernel 1 was coming out which was back when there was no Os X but just plain old Mac OS. BSD was difficult to compile. BeOS promised a lot but didn't really take up...

I think Dan Bull has a pretty good idea. He's currently auctioning songs on ebay. If you win the bid he'll write and record a song for you on the topic of your choosing.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CUSTOM-SONG-writt ... _500wt_929

I use the mini Stax for referencing my mixes sometimes. Pretty good for telling what's happening in the mix. Wouldn't really use them for tracking. Thomann sells Beyerdynamic clones under the Superlux brand for 40?. Cheap and pretty sturdy.

I'm not familiar with this TuneCore service but it looks like a digital distribution service. I guess the questions that remain with that kind of a calculation are: Are all, or the majority, of TuneCore clients professional musicians who expect to sell any significant numbers? Is TuneCore their only...

Yeah, that could well be. I'd suspected that too. Cheers for confirming that. We'll probably still sell it cheap - I've only tried to use it once in the past year and we've got other desks for submixing anyway.

We were going through our old stuff today to see what needs to be sold. There was a Zed14 I'd marked earlier as 'noisy'. The preamps are noisy at any gain above the 0 mark. The master output is noisy at any setting. I'd actually tried to use it as a sub-mixer for a bigger production but gave up beca...

I guess I would in your stead pick up some cheap ribbons or a large diaphragm dynamic mic like SM7b. Ott0bot has a good idea about treating the room or adding a nice compressor.

Maybe you could do a recording template to your DAW? Writing this kind of application will be difficult, especially if you have no prior programming experience. If you do intend to write this, I recommend Cocoa on Mac. The Core Audio framework is pretty useful and with Cocoa you won't waste all that...

Audient ASP008 is under 900? in Europe. Nice clean pres imo.

I wouldn't call GIMP easy to use. Certainly no easier to use than Photoshop, which is a very deep program. I'm not bashing GIMP, Gimp Is My Photoshop, but I'm just sayin..... I don't think any graphic design program is -that- easy to use. Pretty much all programs have their own idiosyncrasies. Isn'...