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First of all try your damndest to find some local bands that are gigging, bands in your high school are a great starting point. try to do live sound for them, or if you know someone who does live sound ask if you can hang out and watch what he does and try to learn. i wouldnt be half the studio guy ...

hey Rand, NEVER TRUST WAVEFORMS, if it sounds fine it is fine, most of the time they are correct, but you will find an akward one here and there. as far as the audio school graduate under your username, that changes as you post more. we were all audio school graduates in the eyes of the tomb. anybod...

the more i hear it the less i like it, I know its not done but let me get some feedback.

here.mp3 - 3.12MB

im a big fan of saul williams' poetry and i heard that reznor produced it, I have a lot of respect for him but its not really my type of thing, so my intention was to download the album, then if i liked it i have no problem dropping $5 for better quality, and just to give saul and trent the money. b...

I have a macbook pro and all i can find for this are extra firewire/usb ports. i would like to hear that there is some plugin accelerator or something cool i could plug in there. ket me know what you have or would like to have for your expresscard/34 slot

black lion also mods the behringer ada8000

$50 28 Unit roadcase with alesis SR16 Roland S330 sampler with 500 disks and a color crt monitor Hill 16ch multimixwith Power supply all came pre wired with midi cables xlr, trs everything i needed. i got this stuff from a guy i was doing sound for every weekend, it belonged to stormy sacks he did a...

i recently made the switch from a g4 with 10.3 to a macbook pro with 10.4.10,my biggest problem was the intel processor i had some things that just werent compatible. mostly plugins though, and i use pro tools so you may not have the same issues

i have used some lobster claw elastics they are very tight but they do the trick, you can also find the same type of elastic on some organic parsely or something like that.

anyone remember vinyl? i still love bringing home a nice sterile 12" cookie. sounds better than myspace too. but what it comes down to is if a band is paying you to make good recordings for them you make the best you can, the fact that myspace is not only their medium of choice, but their only mediu...

I've done the single mic on bluegrass bands quite a few times. It i svery important they know ahead of time about all the moving around theyll have to do. i dont have any ribbon mics (though they would be a nice addition) i usually use an AT4033 always a great choice for bluegrass IMO. and i also wi...

this has happened to me quite a bit, ill be placing mics or something and be inbetween live and control rooms when they start playing, assuming they know im not rolling, im still getting sounds. theyll finish and be like "ok that was great lets do this one" and im like wait, you know i didnt record ...

i have an aphex aural exciter c2 104 i used to use it all the time on hip-hop, i'd throw all the beats through it to beef them up. then discovered L2. but i still use it on occasion. i got it for $50 with a Hill 16 ch rack multimix, alesis sr16 drum machine, Roland s330 with a monitor, and 600 sampl...

well my mom dukes gave me my gift really early, early nov, but i got a macbook pro 3 gigs of ram a digi003, a furman powersupply, an 8 channel recording snake and a gator 12U rack box. my pops/ stepmom and little bro got me a novation remote 25SL compact, some monster mic cables, coffee, toothbrush,...

hey i love some larrivee guitars, Taylors are the shit, the jumbos sound great, and i recently recorded some acoustic with a 60s era guild. Beautiful. also my dad got a blueridge before they made their way into music stores, it was a replica of a pre World War II Martin. he got it for like $400 now ...