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Okay, seems I'm getting a lot of requests from people to duplicate a guitar track recorded in mono and slip the duplicated one a few ms and hard pan them. While to my ears, this works fine in stereo, it sounds phasey in mono. My question, should I care? And is there a preferred amount of slippage th...

In Nuendo, I can use my keyboard and punch like a man, but even if I frig it up, I can still drag and crossfade due to the pre-roll recording of 1 second on the armed track. 9 times out of 10 I don't have to frig with it, but I have the option if I don't like the way the punch sounds and I can even ...

You guys are depressing! For fucks sake, if you've got good "people skills" and are better at engineering than everyone else, you can get more done faster, ultimately a better sounding product and an improved recording experience to boot. This is worth something. This will always be worth something...

So $20/hr is good pay for an engineer? $20/hr isn't good pay at all. But in an industry saturated with supply and short on demand, I'll bet you'll find a lot more audio enginereers who would do it for half that. Heck, I rent my studio out to freelancers all the time that only charge their clients e...

Yeah, $20 bucks an hour is crap. You should quit. What was the name of that studio again.... Clickity click click. Typing my resume as we speak!

I've had hip hop producers pass out while the rappers were still cognatve, so the sessions went on, just without the producer's baked input. Last month, one of the artists in a hip-hop possy passed out on the toilet and I found him there while I was getting ready to leave. I called the producer to c...

It's probably not worth getting worked up about for only 1/2 hour tardiness. This is the music biz, not high school.

Friday Night we put on a show at a local theatre for two of our label bands, The Von Ehrics & Left on Cates. It was a CD release for TVEs new album, "The Whiskey Sessions.". On Saturday we recorded the beds for Left On Cates debut EP. On Sunday, I applied for a C/Unix programming job so that I can a...

"These kids today, with the wheel and the fire...."

Pretty sure a Jerry Seinfeld joke about caveman and their kids.

The point, this conversation is as old as man itself. Yet we still seem to get from generation to generation just fine.

My favorite studio smells were at the recently-closed Jay Howard Production Audio, When did they close, their website is still up.... BTW, my place usually smells like blunts, stale beer, and sometimes homeless people's piss, depending on if they piss in the alley or in front of the studio on centr...

If I don't know the engineer/producer, I will often 2nd at no additional charge for the first couple of sessions. When the engineer & I have developed a good relationship and I trust them implicitly and they have learned my system, I will let them in, get them patched in, and come back at the end of...

Florida to Italy, I'd say there's a little something extra packed inside the unit. BTW, I got mine about 2 years ago for about 300 bucks with the roll around stand (and sadly nothing extra packed inside). I seldom us it, but it looks great in the web photos!