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http://www.atticmf.com/manager/uf-1.gif really? what do you like about it? what have you used it on? sound samples? i've looked at this a few times, cause it has lots o' knobs, and it's cheap. It just sounds different from other fuzzes. It's smooth, can be rather cold, and the color and resonance k...

Go to Continuum Books web site, and check out their book on "Aeroplane" in their 33 1/3 series. Completely fascinating, not so much on the recording technic, but plenty of recording philosophy. A must get!

I have been thinking about this too......I was just going to try using excessive anounts of silicon goo.

Pls post again if this works!

I am a huge believer in a global reverb, typically a small room type, HPF'd and LPF'd and just barely there (5%) on bass for some "liveness", and generally more on the drum submix, and rhythm (guitars, pads, keys, etc.) submix, and again just a touch on the lead vocal. Backing vocal submix and lead...

To address your other point, I don't think something's success is necessarily indicative of its value, artistically, musically, or otherwise. Look to the $100 million piece-of-crap films, completely lacking in any quality screenwriting, filmmaking, acting, or anything. Look at those movies making $...

Okay, okay, but really what is wrong with multi-platinum pop? I am certainly not going to listen to Britney, or Ashlee, or any of them. But if a song creates an emotional response in 4 million teenagers, it must be, in some way, musically, or artistically valid. And if it takes Auto-tune, and a $300...

Beard of Bees, thank you so much! Yean, I started off rotating between the Meek, the ART, and the Yamaha internal pre's, but gradually got sucked into using the Meek more, because it just sounded so good in my headphones, especially when tracking vox and acoustic gtr. In your opinion, I would be bet...

..third, the more expensive gear tends to hog up less bandwidth which makes mixing much simpler..it just falls into place with minimal effort..cheap stuff sounds thicker and using that on 16 tracks its hard to get things to sit right because it doesnt allow room for many tracks to do so.. Wow!, ok t...

Let me rephrase it then. What specific anomolies (holy crap, where's my spell-check) should I be watching out for when I use this gear? All the help you guys have given has been awesome, but I was really asking a much simpler, less philosophical question.

Ya know, I have a pretty sweet life, with a lot of great things which I am thankful for. And one of them truly is this board, and Tape Op as a whole.

Thank you!

My take on this is to give a copy of it to someone else, and then I listen to it again, and imagine that I am actually that someone else listening to it, instead of myself.
This sounds stranger when I see it in print, but it really does work for me.

Damn, I wish I could figure out how to use the "quote" function on this. Anyways, yeah I am totally into the artistic side of things, ie: the mic is a paintbrush etc... and as far as that goes, I am very satisfied with what I have done with this gear. If I suddenly inherited a U87 and a Neve, I woul...

a bunch of frank black's solo stuff is live to 2 track, and it's really good. come to think of it, my old bands first widely distributed demo was all live to 2 track. the guy (dave knight) who recorded it thought it was a big deal, and we all agreed, but nobody outside the band seemed to care. Hmmmm...

Okay, this is not meant to stir up more pro versus hobbyist anxiety. It is a sincere attempt to educate myself. Okay? My best sounding signal path for lead vox is my Rode NT1, through a Joe Meek VC3 into my Yamaha 2816. I know many of you are groaning, and saying things like, "that Rode sucks" or "I...

I have been playing guitar and bass for like, a million years, and I will typically play the parts that wind up making the song hundreds of times before I am ready to record, so I am really pretty well prepared. Still, many times while recording basic bass or rythm parts, where I am going top to bot...