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I've worked with alot of newer bands and I've never had trouble with them taking advice as long as you leave them an option and they know it's in their best interest. I usually phrase any advice in a "what do you think about this part?" type of way. They'll listen and either be so worried about any ...

I will say if you line up tracks in a DAW to make sure to really listen. I've been unhappy more than once with a perfectly lined up track. Sometimes it's awesome, somtimes it's kindof sharp and sterile... I've ended up going back to the simple flipping back and forth instead of scooting tracks..

I've had good luck with evans heads. I'm play mostly rock and am a pretty hard hitter, so I use their power center for snare, g2's (coated or clear depending on mood) for toms and their emad system for kick. (BTW, I'm not an evans endorser, although I do happily endorse spaun drums :-) ) I will say ...

I have one, and I've dug it. I use it for kick drum and guitars quite a bit. The compressor is very good. I rarely use the eq, cause it's a pain. Also the instrument in is pretty handy. As far as the tape saturation thing, all I ever hear is more mud, so I stopped using it. Overall, I can't complain...

One thing that we did on our first label-sponsored record (cause we had alot more time on our hands) to relieve stress was to record a phrase, reverse it, and learn to say it backwards as close as we could. it sounds weird by itself, but when you reverse it once more it sounds like a complete lunati...

haha, that's pretty amazing. It's 10am on a saturday morning and I'm laughing out loud.

This may or may not apply in your situation, but I know that for the longest time, I had a bit of a skewed view of how my toms sounded miced up. I ended up tuning them below usable range quite a bit of the time and wondered why they sounded dead when I heard them recorded. I know it was a cool step ...

One thing I've done in the past is to sit down and create limits before I get started on a project. I'll decide on the focus of the project, the instruments to be used and sometimes I'll even try to keep it to a certain track count. I've found that this helps me focus on the important things, and cl...

haha, yeah I probably am just getting "rack" happy. This SMPro audio thing has me curious though.. I'll have to look into that to see what you're talking about.

Hey,

I have a chance to buy some pm 3000 channels. Are they the same design as the pm 1000 at all? Would they be worth the cost of racking? Thanks much for any input you have!

Thanks for the kind words. :-) On the first song I used a presonus eureka on the snare and probably the guitars.. the rest was through the firepod pres I think. on the second song, I used the 12ay7 on the snare, bass, acoustic guitar and sitar. The eureka got used on all the guitars and the electric...

Hey, I have a few things on www.myspace.com/electricangelstudios (and I know it's the devil, but I'm dealing with the devil I guess) so if you could give me any suggestions, that would be sweet. Marcupial is a song I did for a band called Gone to Graceland from Columbus, OH. It was pretty straightfo...

One thing I've done already and liked, was to put a LDC at the 12th fret, and another mic up higher pointed at the fretting hand. I set up a stereo track and ran them right and left. Then I doubled the part except this time I reversed the stereo image. It adds a nice big open feel, without the odd l...

Thanks, that looks pretty cool and for a very sweet savings.. I could probably use that extra 200 bucks for something else..

I'm finally biting the bullet and buying a drum replacer program to combat the less than accurate drummers I've had the pleasure of recording. I really like how drumagog works, but I was wondering if there were any other reccomendations. I definately want the option of loading my own samples in, bec...