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Damit - missed being the first to reccomend buzz. well, here's my two cents anyhow. I've been using buzz for drum parts, but I don't find it time efficient. Probably going to use it to start making loops for some other program, or else ditch it altogether. It is free and bloody powerful though. Nast...

The traditional answer is "try both with the particular players". To my brain the phase-dependent interplay of a Mid-Side setup makes it really hard to imagine how it will come out in advance, so experiement! it's fun!

Mid-Side a waste of time? nah. Once you've got a mid-side setup for the whole ensemble and each instrument miced individually, my initial response would be to try and use the close mics as little as possible. Much of the magic of bluegrass is the space between the players and the listener. Might wan...

as a "tourist", my response is that things work themselves out. The odds a guitarist with a 4 track putting out a good album: virtually nil. Odds of a guy with a basment studio and 10k$ of gear putting out a good album: mediocre at best. Odds of a multimillion-dollar studio with proven engineers and...

I'm seriously considering opening a studio in my area because there aren't too many good studios on my side of atlanta. Admittaly there's a glut on the other side of the town, but there's not a whole lot around here I have found out about. Basically, my POV is that there's people in my area who coul...

One of the things I love about this board is how some of the ideas expand my concept of how things can be used. Bass drum mics on female vox? Speakers as homebrew drum mics? Saturating cassettes for compression? Lots of neat ideas that I don't think that I would have come up with. It helps to make u...

I'm suprised that no one has mentioned the Countryman Associates DI. While I don't own one (and as such run a real risk of sticking my foot in my mouth) every shootout with clean DI boxes (as opposed to a tube DI or amp sims) usually has it either on top or very close, including one comparison from ...

actually that brings up a good point to me: why does everyone have to have the latest and greatest? you can get into basic midi work and even hard disc recording with used gear, outdated (though still decent) interfaces and software, all for pennies on the dollar. I think one could get a mac for mid...

pretty good chance you could get Funk Logic to make a "Lexotron Neo-Transmogrifier 3000" for the right price. what kind of knobs would it have though...

actually, commissioning a commerative Tape-Op endorsed piece of Funk Logic gear would be awesome.

FWIW, I'd vote for Strongsad

FWIW, I have to do a instrumental audition for entrance into the Recording Technology program at Georgia State in about three weeks. Apparently, as far as they are concerned, trying out for a music school is trying out for a music school, be it performance, composition, or recording. It just gets me...

Actually a good question to me is: is it worth it to get a pair of NS-10's as a "bad reference" (in addition to a better one) or to simply learn one better sounding pair of speakers really well? Also, are there any new speakers that fill the gap left by the NS-10's?

?Honour thy error as a hidden intention.? - Brian Eno There's something to be said for not sweating the small stuff forever. Some days, the tone you want just isn't there, and others the perfect tone just happens, regardless of the fact you weren't trying, things were set up "wrong", and no one care...

alright then, a better question: how does one become a piano tuner? experimentation and methodical practice? apprenticeship? specialized training? for what it's worth, you can do it yourself with the right tools, but even with good gear and ears, it's going to require immense amounts of time and you...

Hokay - the quick primer on getting songs copyrighted. First thing, songs are different from recordings of songs. Technically, once the song is written, it is automatically copyrighted, but it's not protected very strongly. If you have the money you should get whatever songs you intend on taking to ...