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i nominate this for a start. I'll admit that I'm more interested in writing about recording then actually recording music at the moment. But I think my place in the recording community is just as valid and useful as the people who are in the studio 7 days a week. I know it sounds silly, but when yo...

and to think that so many amazing sounding records have somehow already been recorded despite a non-standardized nomenclature. how DID they do it????? yah, thats very true. Yet I can't help but feel that it'll be useful in its own way. No one makes a great record on their first try and most people ...

Ohhh, I haven't had a chance to visit the site - I didn't realize you were trying to aim in the direction of precise frequency numbers there. That seems like it's definitely aiming in the realm of too precise. I didn't include my actual interpretation of what warm means when I gave that earlier lay...

E Jeff wrote: >>Its important not to take a sophistical approach to this by saying "We never >>really know what a word means or how someone is going to use a word, so the >>developing a nomenclature is useless." Actually, I think that's exactly the problem I'm seeing here. We don't know what people...

Try taping a pencil in front of the mic... you'll be amazed at how well it helps with "sssess" and "plosives". Best of luck. Do you mean tape it right on to the mic itself? Vertically? Horizontally? I'd love get less esses and plosives at the source, and not deal as much with them later. If someone...

Too often, people have learned the technical without messing around with the creative. Wow, I've always seen it as exactly the other way around for the DIY recordists. That's exactly why they don't know what cables they need, or how a patchbay 'works' and why we are faced with questions like 'how d...

I think what would really help is to start by explaining why these descriptions are even used, and why it's important for an engineer to be both familiar with common ones and open-minded towards new or incorrect uses. E Jeff, if you've ever worked in ProAudio retail, you'll know that we get all sor...

SP5s make good drum OH, the main problems I have found are: Handling Characteristics, very noisy Distort much easier, Try to scream into it or record a loud guitar. Highs are well, weird, but can make some cymbols sound good. Compaired to the 57, try it on a snare, you will miss the body. I use the...

So if I go to your site and define "wooly" as having a high-pitched, bleating sound similar to the sound of a sheep, does that help? What if that's what I mean when I use the term, even if nobody else in the world uses it that way? Does that mean it gets imposed on the whole world of recording prof...

Chemistry, for example, was in a shambles before Antoine Lavoisier developed sensible names for every chemical and laid out a system for naming new ones. For example, people used to call one chemical "Salt of Tartar" (I can't remember what it is called today). What the hell is Salt of Tartar??? pot...

an $8.00 mic will last as long as you would expect an $8.00 mic to last. not long at all. it's a plastic piece of shit. you could smash it to pieces with one hand. who cares how it sounds if it dies on you after a month? an sm57, on the other hand, is pretty much bulletproof. is that worth the extr...

Here's a fun one that I know has caused a lot of debate on this board before: Natural is the quality of a sound that doesn't have any strange anomalies, such as echos, excessive reverberation, distortion and other audio effects. While there are many different recordings of the same sound source that...

actually, i was referring to distortion in the low frequency range. you can have a grindy low end and still have a pretty clean top. Interesting. By the way, feel free to go to the site and edit any of the definitions i've put up. You don't even need to have an account to edit entries and its super...

that's not what i said, tho. dwlb mentioned lack of highs, i didn't. we were talking about two different things which happen to have the same word used to describe them. Yah, I am debating either creating two separate definitions or removing/altering the changing of highs. It seems that scratchy an...

that's not what i said, tho. dwlb mentioned lack of highs, i didn't. we were talking about two different things which happen to have the same word used to describe them. Yah, I am debating either creating two separate definitions or removing/altering the changing of highs. It seems that scratchy an...