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by tubetapexfmr
Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:11 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: How many of us took a Pay Cut to become full time engineers?
Replies: 31
Views: 8474

Pay? What is that? I also heard someone mention something about insurance? Never heard of that either. Seriously, I've produced ~6 full length records in 5 years and have yet to recoup my costs from the first one in 2002. Like anything worth doing I spend the bulk of my time recording and planning t...
by tubetapexfmr
Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:09 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Anyone have a hobby they like better than recording?
Replies: 50
Views: 17007

Define hobby. I am into all kinds of stuff away from recording, it just seems like recording gets more and more attention as I get better at it and want to dig deeper. 'Hobbies' include: Fixing/modifiying gear, Classic cars (especially 50's-70's Mopars), Illustrating, Criticizing music and movies, P...
by tubetapexfmr
Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:03 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Still searching for the right DAW
Replies: 17
Views: 5112

LIVE, LIVE, LIVE! Like you I have used many DAWs and all of them seemed to get in my way one way or another. (Digital Performer, Logic, Pro Tools, Acid, N-Track, Ardour, and Samplitude) Unlike these others, Live has everything you need. The only thing it doesn't have built in is a destructive sample...
by tubetapexfmr
Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:14 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Webcor "Royal" tube r2r - what kind of tubes?/qual
Replies: 8
Views: 3350

These little reel to reels make great resources for parts or you can mod them and turn them into DI boxes, little guitar amps, mic pres, even restore to stock. Basically its up to you how far you want to mod it or not. More than likely you have a power transformer, an output transformer, tube socket...