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http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/10/living/fine-art-photography-manipulation/index.html I thought this article was interesting and reflected a lot of the things you often hear discussed about recording (analog vs. digital, degree of "manipulation" and the ramifications of that on the "authenticity" or wha...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIWMrK67_bk

Check out that beautiful sight on the left at the beginning of the video! (Phil Keaggy)

That's really funny, as I saw them about 3-5 months after the release of the album, and thought it was classic "Made-in-pro-tools-in-a-bedroom/get-a-band-and-play-it" scenario. They were pretty loose... REALLY loose. Things that sounded tight on the record were all over the place with the other gui...

It's often rare to find low-tolerance parts that are near the nominal value. Here's why: http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/signal-integrity/4363408/7-solution I can't believe this never crossed my mind. And of course that explains why 10% resistors aren't 10x cheaper than 1% ones. Totally went o...

I agree with the performance bit. I saw these guys live and while I didn't necessarily dig the music a ton, they were definitely a tight band, tasteful, good musicianship. No real secrets. If you'd have thrown up mics at the show I saw, you'd probably have gotten near album-ready tracks, compared to...

Ah, thanks for the info. I agree that the cost difference is definitely negligible. That's a really neat article I hadn't come across yet on distortion in carbon composition resistors! So it's basically the sort of thing where you have a "tube" pedal but that uses such low voltages that you're not g...

Quick question about things like percentage tolerance. Is the only difference between say a 10% carbon comp. and a 1% metal-film resistor the fact that you'd probably have to buy 10 or so of the carbon comp to get one that's as close to its labeled value as any old 1% metal-film resistor? In other w...

I have the bracket on my WEM Copicat erase head loosened up so I can push it back and build up a big smeary mess on the tape. I even spliced small chunks of tape and leader tape together in a loop so the echo cuts in and out. Nice! I do a bit of film photography on the side for fun, and it's really...

Google Les Paul (the guy, not the guitar) and "sound on sound" (the technique not the magazine). He invented what your talking about in the 1940's. Basically you're recording a new layer of audio over top of the original track without erasing what's already there. With each pass the previous parts ...

OK, to preface, this might just be me pronouncing my ignorance on basic physics. BUT, it was a weird idea I couldn't seem to figure out. Say you're bouncing tracks 1, 2, and 3 to a blank track #4 on a 4-track to give you more room. When you record over 1, 2, and 3 with new stuff, you're going to be ...

Here's an example of a song I recorded to 388...(ALL to 388 except for one keyboard part, then mixed in Pro Tools). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECgeMLdTog0 If you like this it is definitely less crusty sounding streaming off of the actual website... This sounds great man! I love that bass sound....

Hi Mikey, I'm a little bit of both. I write a lot of my own stuff, but I'm interested in recording other people, so I'd like to get something that would give me the flexibility to do drums or additional channels. I don't own a studio or anything, so it's strictly kind of a "lo-fi" thing...people com...

First off ? I hope this is the right forum for this, but if not if you wouldn't mind moving it that'd be awesome. I'm using a Tascam 388. Occasionally I want to dump tracks into Logic for backup in case anything happens to the tape for some reason. I have an LCD TV with a monitor input that I use as...

I read a recent interview where he said he did it because he couldn't afford better, but he did get known for it. :lol: Something not entirely dissimilar, to me at least, is Brian May, where he uses the S/S Deacy amp his bass player built as a front end to his Vox back-line. Re the guitar spectrum ...

Today's modern guitars are notorious for smothering the audio spectrum and this is not something that EQ can fix. Do you find this problem to be amplifier / pickup-specific? Or due to playing style, etc.? I guess I haven't really found myself running into this (or my ears aren't good enough yet to ...