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I recently just caught up on paying my taxes for the last 7 years. I have been 1099 for at least 6. It was a big relief to get that out of the way. I thought I would owe a bunch but my CPA worked it all out. Get a good CPA that does a lot of Self Employed people. Paying my CPA is about the best $250...

I just got up and running Zoos of Berlin's and My new recording space. Short list of gear Mics: Altec Ribbons 670 A & B 's RCA BK5 Beyer M500 B&O BM5 Peluso VTB Many more ..... Pre's : 3 - 1950's Presto 900 tube tape machine line/mic amps ( one of the best sounding ever! ) 3 - Bogen RP-2 Tube Mic/Li...

Spend less time on Forums trying the learn how to make records and SPEND more time MAKING records. my 2 cent's. -Collin OUCH! While I get and appreciate the underlying sense of this statement, it is seemingly contradictory since it was given by someone participating in the forum. Yes it does seem t...

bannerj wrote [quote="bannerj" I could say...well, my mixes sound thin and puny and pinched...but [/quote] Try and stay away from too much EQ and Compression. Try and spend more of your time with panning and fader balancing. Also start to record the levels of things with the faders at 0 (Unity) in E...

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Really great sounding record!

Miles Davis - the Complete Bitches Brew sessions

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

-Collin

I usually will charge for the travel expenses such as air fair,gas,rental car,per diem, if those things are not already worked into a package rate. Of course these things are stated in writing just so that everyone knows the deal.

-Collin

cgarges wrote:My being a freelancer has zero bearing on my work method. I always prefer to work OTB.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

100% agreed. I prefer the sound that I can get with analog processing.

-Collin

I'm the drummer in my band and also the one who records and co-produces our recordings. I have been using the Main Stage program that comes bundled with Logic Pro 8 for the last 2 years with great results. Here is my setup and how we pull it off. I have had very few live sound guys complain about th...

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-Collin

I'm using a 17" mac book Pro 2.6 ghz with 4 Gigs of Ram. I record to a FW 800 hardware RAID set to "stripe" across both drives. My Interface is Metric Halo 2882. With this system I can record 24 bit 96k all day into Logic pro 8 . I typically record no more than 8 tracks at a time at 96k,but I can pl...

I use my Mac Book Pro with a Metric Halo 2882 and Logic Pro 8 as an effect unit all of the time. I'll set the buffer settings as low as they go, I can hear a little latency but it does not seem to bother me as most of the things I'm doing with it involve Verb. I have designed some really cool convol...

Thanks. It was a lot of fun. We rented a big 5,000 foot warehouse space in downtown Detroit and set up a make shift studio for 6 weeks and recorded the whole thing. All of the effects and reverb on things are either room reverb and or re-amping things back into different sized rooms, I mean ALL. -co...

Hey my band Zoos of Berlin posted 2 new songs on our myspace page.

www.myspace.com/zoosofberlin

The songs are called "Water Town" and "Electrical Way"

I recorded and mixed it all.

Check it out. Tell me what you think.

-Collin

Sounds Fucking Great! I like how it is not boring sounding. Good Energy!

Good Job!

-Collin

I don"t EQ or Compress something soloed up, but rather in the mix. I find that this makes me focus on the sound of the song as a whole,and how what I may be Eq'ing and or compressing is fitting in. I also will get my balance of everything and then set my monitor level to around 80db with an SPL mete...